The Politics of Community Services: Immigrant Women, Class and State

Abstract

wise, this is an excellent and important study. Roberts' assertions are well-documented and poignantly argued. The people who back the new immigration legislation, Bill C-55, with its allowance for unscrutinized bureaucratic deci

Learning Circles: One form of knowledge production in social action research

“…Yet, having funding was important both for the extensive work the local coordinators did in recruitment, facilitating the circles, supporting the follow-up work, and providing the honorarium the participants received. The nature, sources, and methods of funding have been recognized as key shapers of work connected to social action (Brock & Banting, 2003;Ng, 1996;Phillips, 2003). In the evaluation, participants in all four learning circles spoke about "needing more time, more days" to more fully implement the action part of the learning circles.…”

The Dialectics of Praxis

“…However, she takes this further by demonstrating that 'class practices' are also 'gendered practices' and 'racialized practices,' illuminating clearly the ways in which class, race, and gender are mutually organizing social relations rather than fragmented social realities that interact upon 'the body.' She denoted in her doctoral research, Immigrant Women and the State: A Study in the Social Organization of Knowledge (Ng, 1984) and her seminal book The Politics of Community Services: Immigrant Women, Class and State (Ng, 1996), that "…class cannot be understood as a separate phenomenon from gender and race. As my explication of the construction of immigrant women as a labour market category shows, gender and ethnicity/race are essential constituents in the organization of people's class location" (Ng, 1996, p.10).…”

Le mouvement associatif haïtien au Québec et le discours des leaders

“…Ces approches accordent une place prépondérante aux contradictions internes de classe qui structurent les communautés (Miles et Phizaclea, 1977 ;Painchaud et Poulin, 1988 ;Stasiulis, 1989 ;Labelle, 1990a ;Goulbourne, 1991 ;Vorst et a/., 1989 ;Miles, 1992). Des études canadiennes mettent en évidence le rôle de l'État dans la gestion des rapports ethniques par le biais de la politique du multiculturalisme ; elles analysent l'impact de cette politique sur l'autonomie des organisations communautaires, sur l'ethnicisation et sur la racialisation des groupes sociaux (Stasiulis, 1980(Stasiulis, , 1991Anderson et Frideres, 1981 ;Moodley, 1987 ;Ng, 1988 ;Ng et a/., 1990 ;Aboud, 1992). Sutton et Chaney (1987), postulant l'interpénétration du système mondial et illustrant ainsi la dynamique qui fait des migrants des acteurs dans deux systèmes -le pays d'origine et le pays d'immigration -montrent que cette dynamique se manifeste dans la vie associative et se caractérise par la multiplicité des réfé-rences identitaires (Catani et Palidda, 1987 ;Campani, 1991).…”