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Nowadays, politics is only one voice among many in the concert of social self-organization. Its function is to articulate the differentiated systems of our societies: it encourages their self-restraint, while at the same time restraining itself. Such a conception obviously threatens the primacy of the nation-state. While it is not necessarily disappearing, it must nevertheless cease to be thought of as a dominant principle of organization, and must assume its place in a system of regulation that proceeds on several levels. Distant from the anarchist or Marxist theories that herald the end of the state as it is from libertarian theories of the minimal state, the book illustrates that it is possible in the contemporary period to go beyond the alternatives of dirigisme and neoliberal spontaneity. However, such a transformation can only prove effective through two conditions: we must first reject the enduring opposition between Right and Left, and second, we must invent an anti-state social democracy that is able in its own right to glean the most it can out of the liberal legacy. This book combines philosophical technicality, clarity and elegance of writing in an attempt to provide politics with meaning again, particularly in an era where discourse about its powerlessness abounds.

La question des flux migratoires engendrés par la mondialisation suscite de plus en plus de débats politiques et appelle à un renouvellement des analyses. Telle est l'ambition de ce livre, qui étudie les parcours migratoires et d¿incorporation socioprofessionnelle de migrants brésiliens dans le domaine du génie et des technologies de l¿information et de la communication (TIC) à Montréal.Cet ouvrage en propose une lecture socio-anthropologique en privilégiant la question du comment à celle du pourquoi : Comment devient-on émigrant dans la société de départ ? Comment s'adapte-t-on à la société de destination ? Comment s'y insère-t-on professionnellement ? La comparaison des parcours socioprofessionnels révèle des modes d'incorporation qui épousent un monde du travail segmenté et stratifié autant pour le marché de l'ingénierie que celui des professionnels des TIC. Par ailleurs, ce livre amène le lecteur à relativiser la figure du migrant hautement qualifié comme mobile et nomade, en faisant voir la complexité des processus en jeu dans la construction différenciée des parcours. Il permet aussi d¿éclairer les logiques sociales d¿appartenance et les dynamiques migratoires et d¿insertion socioéconomique. Il s¿adresse à ceux et celles préoccupés du fait migratoire et des questions de société car il offre des clés pour comprendre le fonctionnement de nos sociétés à partir des récits et de l'épaisseur des expériences migratoires.

This book provides an in-depth analysis of how constitutionalism and diversity can be friends and foes alike in contemporary multinational democracies. By focusing mainly on the dynamics between Quebec and Canada and comparing these with ongoing issues in Catalonia and Spain, Flanders and Belgium, and South Tyrol and Italy, the authors offer new insights into the public management of national diversity. In doing so, they sought to unpack the numerous challenges divided societies are facing.The pieces that together form the title of this book are not merely of symbolic significance. Constitutionalism v Diversity: Essays on Federal Democracy echoes the four underlying principles of the Canadian Constitution that the Supreme Court of Canada identified in its famous 1998 Reference re Secession of Quebec. These are (1) federalism, (2) democracy, (3) constitutionalism and the rule of law, and (4) protection of minorities. While these four concepts are at the very core of both authors' argument and approach, the Supreme Court of Canada's Secession Reference is guiding them through the book by providing a robust and meaningful theoretical and analytical framework. These principles appear as universal normative parameters societies should see as ideals to pursue and translate - while adapting their content to the specific context - into concrete institutions and practices. Even more today this book shows the great analytical value of these four principles to critically appraise of the way multinational liberal democracies in general and federal systems in particular are evolving.