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Beyond the "Politics of Toil": Collective Mobilization and Individual Activism in Toronto's Portuguese Community, 1950s-1990s.
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- Author(s): Fernandes, Gilberto
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Urban History Review / Revue d'Histoire Urbaine; Fall2010, Vol. 39 Issue 1, p59-72, 14p, 2 Black and White Photographs- Subject Terms:
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- Abstract: The following article examines the changing political attitudes of Portuguese immigrants in Canada from the arrival of the first cohort in the 1950s to the emergence of the second and third generations in Canadian mainstream society in the 1990s. It explores historical factors that have influenced the political profile of Portuguese Canadians, including its predominantly working-class makeup; its lack of formal education and democratic culture resulting from Portugal's authoritarian legacy; and its internal factionalism along regional, ideological, generational, and class lines. Fernandes offers a historical critique of sociological models—"socio-economic status" and "socialization" —commonly used for measuring and explaining immigrant political participation, and stresses the importance of diachronic studies in dispelling essentialist assumptions regarding immigrant communities. The author argues that generalist notions of "political participation" and "political constituency" miss important distinctions between representative and direct forms of political action, collective mobilization and individual activism, as well as state level and grassroots politics. He claims that each of these political processes operates according to its own distinct internal dynamics, at times responsive, at other times alienated from one another, which must be analyzed using appropriate scales of observation (macro and micro). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Abstract: L'auteur examine l'évolution des attitudes politiques des immigrés portugais au Canada depuis l'arrivée dans les années 1950 de la première cohorte jusqu'à l'émergence dans les années 1990 des deuxième et troisième générations dans la société canadienne majoritaire. Il étudie certains facteurs historiques qui ont influencé le profil politique des Canado-portugais, y compris sa composition de classe ouvrière prédominante, son manque d'éducation et de culture démocratique formelles — résultat de l'héritage autoritaire du Portugal — et ses factions internes régionales, idéologiques, générationnelles et de classe. Fernandes propose une critique historique de modèles sociologiques — le « statut socio-économique» et la « socialisation » — couramment utilisés pour mesurer et expliquer la participation politique des immigrants; il souligne l'importance des études diachroniques pour dissiper les hypothèses essentialistes sur les communautés immigrantes. L'auteur fait valoir que les notions généralistes de la « participation politique » et de la « circonscription politique » écartent des distinctions importantes entre les formes représentatives et directes de l'action politique, la mobilisation collective et l'activisme individuel, ainsi que la politique au niveau de l'État et à la base. Il affirme que chacun de ces processus politiques fonctionne selon ses propres dynamiques internes distinctes, parfois sensibles, à d'autres moments aliénées les unes des autres, qui doivent être analysées en utilisant des échelles d'observation appropriées (macro et micro). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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