The State and Ethnic Diversity: Structural and Discursive Change in Quebec's Ministere d'Immigration
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Abstract
ABSTRACT/RESUME This paper presents an organizational analysis of the immigration and ethnic diversity debate as articulated by the Quebec government through its ministere del 'Immigration. Both structural and discursive transformations of the ministry are examined, and the two are set in the larger socio-political context of the times. The ministry mandated to regulate matters of immigration in Quebec has undergone a number of transformations throughout the thirty-four years of its history, from the ministere de l'Immigration du Quebec (MIQ:1968-1981) to the ministere des Commuautes culturelles et de l'Immigration (MCCI:1981-1993), to the ministere des Affaires internationales, de l'Immigration et des Communautes culturelles (MAIICC: 1993-1996) and finally, to the ministere des Relations avec les citoyens et de l'Immigration (MRCI:1996-). Both nominal and structural changes have marked these transformations. The thesis of this paper is that Quebec's ambivalence to immigration and diversity is reflected in, and symbolized by , the various transformations of its ministry. The paper examines the linguistic and structural nature of the changes, outlines the major issues of Quebec's immigration debate, and briefly compares the historical trajectory of Canada and Quebec's official visions of pluralism. Cet article presente une analyse organisationnelle du debat sur l'immigration et la diversite ethnique tel qu'articule par le gouvernement du Quebec travers son ministere del' Immigration. Nous examinons la fois des transformations structurelles et discursives et ces changements sont situes en contexte socio-historique. Le ministere de l'Immigration s'est transforme plusieurs fois travers les trente-quatre annees de son histoire, du ministere de l'Immigration du Quebec (MIQ :1968-1981) au ministere des Communautes culturelles et de l'Immigration (MCCI :1981-1993), au ministere des Affaires internationales, de l'Immigration et des Communautes culturelles (MAIICC: 1993-1996) l'actuel ministere des Relations avec les citoyens et de l'Immigration (MRCI: 1996-). Des changements a la fois structuraux et nominatifs ont marque ces transformations. Nous proposons ici que l'ambivalence du gouvernement du Quebec face l'immigration et la diversite ethnique trouve echo dans ces diverses transformations. Get article examin e la nature linguistique et structurelle des changements, expose les grandes lignes des enjeux principaux du debat quebecois sur l'immigration et brievement compare Ia trajectoire historique des versions officielles du pluralisme au Canada et au Quebec. INTRODUCTION This paper presents an organizational analysis of the themes of immigration and ethnic diversity as articulated by the Quebec government through the ministere de l'Immig ration. Both structural and discursive transformations of the ministry will be examined, and the two will be set in the larger socio-political context of the period. The analysis is based on official government documents (1) (annual reports, policy statements, consultation papers, strategic plans, etc. (2)) that the ministry mandated to regulate matters of immigration in Quebec has produced over the first thirty-four years of its history (1968-2002). Since its establishment in 1968 this ministry has undergone a number of transformations signalled by name changes as well as structural modifications. More than simply cosmetic, these changes are symbolic of the ambivalence of successive Quebec governments regarding the dynamics of immigration and diversity in Quebec society. The ministere de l'Immig ration du Quebec (MIQ) was officially created in 1968. In 1981 it became the ministere des Communautes cultu relies et de l'Immigration (MCCI-Ministry of Cultural Communities and Immigration). Ninteen-ninety-three brought yet another change as the ministry become the ministere des Affaires internationales, del 'Immigration et des Communautes culturelles (MAIICC-Ministry of International Affairs, Immigration and Cultural Communities). …
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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