Documentos CIDOB Migraciones; 6

In the context of a debate that is just beginning to take shape in Catalonia, this work presents a reflection on the relationship between the integration of immigration and national minorities, in a space in which there is an overlapping of the new cultural diversity generated by immigrants and already-existing diversity (multi-nationality). In order to consider the accommodating of immigrants in the framework of self-government policies to legitimise the management of the minority cultural community in societies in which there exists a dual membership: that of the national majority political community and that of the community expressed by the minority nation. In this sense, the theoretical reflection that this analysis conveys in the concrete framework of Quebec, where this dual membership exists, allows for knowing about how self-government policies have related to immigration policies in Quebec in the past few decades, and it provides arguments, with special attention placed on the definition of citizenship and the role that must be given to language in this definition, which show that immigration has direct effects that are not only social but also political, as it forces governments to rethink the very bases of self-government.

Danielle Juteau is a Permanent Lecturer in the Department of Sociology at the University of Montreal.

issn: 1697-7734 (print edition)
issn: 1697-8145 (online edition)

35 pp.

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