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Kinship and Migration to the Upper St. John Valley (Maine - New Brunswick)
Author: Craig, BéatriceDate: 1983 SpringLanguage : enFind in a library: 60628349Article exploring the demographic shifts of the Upper St. John River Valley - Maine and New Brunswick - through the first fifty years of the Madwaska settlement, beginning in 1785. The author uses parish records and genealogical sources - what she calls the "cohort-life history method" - to build a portrait of the early in-migration of French Canadian and Acadian Madawaska communities, their habits, and their peopling. Individual, family, and community mobility and some thoughts on the explanations behind it. -
L'Américanité, the Dual Nature of the Québécois Identity
Author: Cuccioletta, DonaldDate: 2000 Spring/SummerLanguage : enFind in a library: 60628349Article exploring the notion of "américanité" in Québec: not as an extension of a USA process of "Americanization," but as a descriptive continental term that relates to, contextualizes, characterizes, and pluralizes Québécois identity. Changing ideas of "américanité" in Québec in the 20th century, and more recently considered in light of NAFTA. Presentation and preliminary analysis of survey data from Québec with questions on the vocabulary of self-identification, perceptions of the term "américain," its geographical scope, and how respondents compare themselves generally to people in the United States. -
Prolific Immigrants and Dwindling Natives? : Fertility Patterns in Western Massachusetts, 1850 and 1880
Author: Wilcox, JerryDate: 1982-fallLanguage : enFind in a library: 2514766Quantitative analysis of fertility rates among Irish and French Canadian immigrant families as compared to native Massachusetts families in two years of western Massachusetts census reporting: 1850 and 1880. Unique contribution to analyses of 19th-century fertility rate decline in the United States, with review and discussion of relevant theories in demography and family studies concerned with that time period: class, education, immigration, women's status, kinship structures, and others. Brief discussion of fertility in pre-emigration Ireland, France, and French Canada. Descriptions of the historical and geographical western Massachusetts context, including demographics and industry. Includes statistical charts. Research questions, from the authors: "Was immigrant fertility in western Massachusetts high relative to other nineteenth-century populations? Was native fertility relatively low? How large was the native-immigrant fertility gap? And, finally, was the gap eliminated, reduced, or widened by adjusting for a) age distribution of wives; b) rural versus industrializing town versus urban residence; c) census year - 1850-1880; d) husband's occupation; e) wife's age at maternity; and f) length of childbearing span?" (269). -
La stratification sociale du groupe ethnique canadien-français aux États-Unis
Author: Bouvier, Léon F.Date: 1964Language : frSource : Texte integralFind in a library: 60688713Analyse démographique du groupe ethnique canadien-français aux États-Unis ou dans la Nouvelle-Angleterre entre 1830 et 1950, utlisant des chiffres de la Bureau of the Census. Déscriptions historiques de l'immigration canadienne du Québec aux États-Unis; présentation des chiffres socio-economiques par rapport à d'autres groupes ethniques immigrants avant de 1950. -
Floribec : espace et communauté
Author: Tremblay, RémyDate: 2006Publication: Les Presses de l'Université d'OttawaLanguage : frFind in a library: 753328626Une étude sociogéographique sur le Floribec: les communautés touristiques québécois qui avaient habité en masse - ou passé les vacances - à Hollywood, Florida pendant les mois d'hivers depuis les années 1970. Floribec comme éspace, communauté, phénomène. Les lieux physiques saillants et l'organisation spatiale/géographique de Floribec; "l'espace d'appartenance" sociale de Floribec; les liens culturels entre Floribec et Québec, entre les "Floribecois" et les Québécois, et au sein de la communauté elle-même. -
Older Women Doing Home Care : Exploitation or Ideal Job?
Author: Butler, Sandra S.Date: 2013Language : enFind in a library: 4392786Article exploring the contexts and conditions of older age women as increasingly common personal assistance and home care aides in the twenty-first century. This occupation at the convergence of the growing need for home care workers in American homes, with the financial insecurity of older active adults in need of supplemental income, and who are able to provide social support and physical assistance to elders in need of care-taking. Author asks: "As older women are choosing, or being forced, to work later in life, is personal care work in their best interest?" (300). Article based on mixed-methods research - the Older Worker Study - including interviews with Maine home health workers: discussion of financial status, family status, work history, and attitudes toward age and experience. Written by a Professor of Social Work at the University of Maine.