CIRM-AIEQ mobility grants awardees
Congratulations to the awardees of 2024 CIRM-AIEQ Mobility Grants! CIRM-AIEQ scholarships are awarded on a competitive basis and designed to enable emerging researchers in Montreal Studies to take part in a scientific meeting outside Quebec or to conduct a research project at CIRM.
2024
Research projects
Bruxelles et Montréal, entre deux modèles nationaux d’intégration?
David Carpentier | Academy of Law and Migration (ADiM) and the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence on the integration of migrants in Europe (IntoME)
David's presentation revisits the debate in the sociology of migration on the thesis of national models of integration, according to which a state's cultural and national identity determines its policies of access to citizenship and integration. He defends the relevance of this approach, once these models have been redefined as dynamic political discourses on living together, for understanding local integration policies. He illustrates his argument with the case studies of Brussels and Montreal. These metropolises are home to two main cultural and linguistic groups. They act as political communities of reference, have their own integration models and compete to win over new arrivals. Based on some sixty semi-structured interviews with local integration policy-makers, he addresses the following questions: how do local public authorities in Montreal and Brussels navigate between the competing models of integration on their territory, and how is this reflected in their public action? He will show how these national integration models structure the policies of these two metropolises. This finding calls for a reconsideration of studies that neglect the city's place in its national whole, and its de facto participation in identity politics that go beyond it.
When le Champ des Possibles met Projet Montréal
Pavel Kunysz | Research residency at CIRM
Pavel will take advantage of a research stay at CRIEM to complete his corpus by interviewing members of administrations involved in the recognition of the Champ des Possibles (CdP), certain members of the Friends of the Champ des Possibles (FCdP), as well as representatives of communities using the Champ who could not be contacted in the previous frameworks. Interviews will also be conducted with Projet Montréal (PM) elected officials involved in this recognition and in the party's development over the 2008-2023 period. These interviews, in addition to those already carried out, will enable the drafting of a manuscript telling the intersecting stories of the FCdP, PM, the CdP and its various uses. This historical account will highlight the multiplicity of experiences and communities present in the Champ's history, and the dynamics of erasure, replacement and negotiation of the imaginary of this place that have taken place through its institutionalization. In this way, it will constitute a social and sensitive history that engages narrative devices developed during his doctoral work, giving access to words and experiences that are often deligitimized.
How to promote heritage languages within community schools in the multicultural context of Montreal: the case of Italian and Portuguese communities
Fabio Scetti | Multilingual and Multicultural Learning: Policies and Practices 3
Fabio's talk is the result of research carried out between 2011 and 2023 within Italian and Portuguese communities in Montreal (Canada). The main aim of the research is to observe daily language practices and identify the role of Italian and Portuguese along with the other two languages of the context (French and English) within both communities. Even though student numbers are decreasing in community schools, members are mobilising to promote their heritage language (HL) as one of the future and a real asset for younger generations. Thanks to the analysis of linguistic ideologies which circulate around language power and status among descendants, he is able to observe discourse constructed with reference to languages and practices (languages used in the family, identity markers, international languages and tools for the future). Throughout his research, it has been important to identify how members of both communities define the “good” language as a standard, the norm. It is important to question the role of these community schools, particularly with regard to the promotion and defence of the norm that one must “read, write and speak properly”, via the reactivation of a prescriptive nationalist paradigm aimed at the equation of a language, a nation and/or a community and a single standard norm.
2018-2019
Research projects
The Montreal Sustainability Dashboard Case Show: Transportation and Mobility
Seyed Hossein Chavoshi | GIS for a Sustainable World Conference
Sustainability and resiliency issues are increasingly at the forefront of discussions and decisions at all levels of municipal governance and decision-making. Our team has risen to the challenge by creating the Montreal Sustainability Dashboard, an inclusive and interactive visual platform designed to track, understand and respond to how urban environment impacts upon sustainability. The dashboard responds to the motivation to develop a tool that is democratic, open, relevant, and accessible to the Montreal community, incorporating the experiences of Montrealers across socioeconomic statuses to include and represent all of its inhabitants and institutions. The dashboard will increase awareness surrounding issues of sustainability and resilience for citizens and organizations in Montreal, incentivize behaviour change, and provide the technical tools and platform to achieve long-term sustainability goals.
Models of public management and co-production by non-profit organizations: Evidence from Quebec, France and England
Caitlin McMullin | International Research Society for Public Management Conference
In this paper, I consider evidence from non-profit organizations in Montreal, Quebec, Lyon, France and Sheffield, England in order to respond to the research question: In what ways do national models of public management impact the co-production practices of non-profit organizations at a local level? The research is based on a comparative analysis of community development organizations, employing methods of documentary analysis, qualitative interviews, and observation of events, meetings and service delivery. Case studies from each city are used to illustrate the ways that three varying models of public management (Neo-Weberian/ Napoleonic State in France, New Public Management in England, and New Public Governance in Quebec) structure the relationships between government and non-profit organizations (based, respectively, on hierarchy and control, contracting and performance management, and partnership and collaboration) as well as how these in turn impact the internal co-production activities in non-profit organizations. The study finds that while co-production between non-profit professionals and citizens occurs in all cases, this type of collaboration is more prevalent in Montreal than Sheffield or Lyon, due to established networks and partnerships between the public and community sectors, a beneficial policy context, and organisational funding that is based on grants rather than restrictive contracts.