INVOLUNTARY MINORITIES AMONG FRANCOPHONE MANITOBANS: RESISTANCE, RESILIENCE AND REVIVAL.

Using ethnographic accounts, this paper offers a reflection on the difficulties, aspirations and strategies that francophone refugees face as they try to integrate into a cultural and linguistic landscape dominated by English. Given migration movements and identity shifts that affect Francophone communities in Western Canada, our discussion relies on concepts of 'deterritorialization/reterritorialization' (Deleuze & Guattari) as well as on the notion of 'minority within a minority' (Maddibo), with special attention to the issue of social, linguistic and identity dispossession. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]