{"id":15833,"date":"2022-05-25T01:23:40","date_gmt":"2022-05-25T05:23:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/makingyourwayup.com\/?p=15833"},"modified":"2025-05-14T10:32:11","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T14:32:11","slug":"reclaiming-our-time-reclaiming-the-pen-reclaiming-our-truths-what-would-it-be-like-to-write-our-own-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sayaspora.com\/en\/reclaiming-our-time-reclaiming-the-pen-reclaiming-our-truths-what-would-it-be-like-to-write-our-own-stories\/","title":{"rendered":"Reclaiming our time, reclaiming the pen, reclaiming our truths: What would it be like to write our own stories?"},"content":{"rendered":"&#13;\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ce que le c\u00e9l\u00e8bre adage, \u00ab\u2009L\u2019histoire est \u00e9crite par les vainqueurs\u2009\u00bb, r\u00e9v\u00e8le, c\u2019est que nos histoires rec\u00e8lent d\u2019\u00ab\u2009oublis\u2009\u00bb, d\u2019ellipses, que l\u2019on se doit de d\u00e9terrer afin qu\u2019elles s\u2019\u00e9rigent finalement en \u00ab\u2009v\u00e9rit\u00e9s\u2009\u00bb. Ainsi, quand j\u2019\u00e9voque un sujet, quand j\u2019essaie de le diss\u00e9quer, je m\u2019engage toujours \u00e0 creuser dans l\u2019histoire.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>&#13;\n&#13;\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Je vous invite alors, \u00e0 un rapide saut dans le pass\u00e9 afin de mieux comprendre d\u2019o\u00f9 proviennent certaines in\u00e9galit\u00e9s syst\u00e9miques que les personnes racis\u00e9es subissent encore dans le milieu de l&#8217;emploi. D\u00e9couvrons ensemble les premi\u00e8res politiques d\u2019immigration canadienne concernant les candidat.e.s au travail venant des pays d\u2019Afrique et des Cara\u00efbes.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>&#13;\n&#13;\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Au lendemain de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, les mouvements pro-noirs en Am\u00e9rique du Nord et ceux pour la d\u00e9colonisation dans plusieurs pays d\u2019Afrique contestent vigoureusement la supr\u00e9matie blanche et l\u2019organisation hi\u00e9rarchique raciale (Maynard, 2019). Il n\u2019est plus question de trainer les relents coloniaux. Ces revendications, accompagn\u00e9es du souci de la cr\u00e9ation d\u2019un \u00ab\u202fnouvel ordre mondial\u202f\u00bb d\u2019apr\u00e8s-guerre plus inclusif, encouragent des pays comme le Canada \u00e0 signer la premi\u00e8re convention concernant la loi sur <em>la non- discrimination \u00e0 l\u2019emploi et \u00e0 la profession <\/em>en 1958. De surcro\u00eet, afin de s\u2019imposer sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale comme une puissance industrielle, le Canada a besoin de main-d\u2019\u0153uvre. Il se tourne vers les pays du sud global et des cara\u00efbes, avec des lois <em>moins restrictives<\/em> comme celles <em>sur l\u2019immigration en 1962.<\/em> D\u00e8s lors, s\u2019en suit le d\u00e9veloppement d\u2019une nouvelle \u00e8re au Canada, celle du multiculturalisme<sup>1<\/sup> qui constitue l\u2019identit\u00e9 fi\u00e8re, flamboyante de ce Canada des ann\u00e9es\u202f60 et 70. En revanche, le racisme fondamental et structurel de l\u2019\u00e9conomie nationale et mondiale de l\u2019avant-guerre, h\u00e9rit\u00e9e de la colonisation, reste intact \u00e0 bien des \u00e9gards, et la deuxi\u00e8me moiti\u00e9 du 20e\u202fsi\u00e8cle voit plusieurs hi\u00e9rarchies raciales anciennes se reconstituer et m\u00eame s\u2019affermir sous d\u2019autres noms (Maynard, 2019).\u00a0<\/p>&#13;\n&#13;\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Par exemple, pendant longtemps, un des seuls permis qui autorisait l\u2019immigration l\u00e9gale des femmes racis\u00e9es venant de pays d\u2019Afrique et des Cara\u00efbes \u00e9tait celui de travailleuse domestique. En ce qui concerne les hommes de ces r\u00e9gions, les programmes promus se restreignaient \u00e0 ceux de travailleurs saisonniers agricoles. Le multiculturalisme ne s\u2019enqu\u00e9rant ni du niveau d\u2019instruction ni de l\u2019exp\u00e9rience acquise dans le pays d\u2019origine. Un m\u00e9decin se retrouvait, apr\u00e8s des ann\u00e9es d\u2019\u00e9mancipation esclavagiste, encore une fois dans \u00ab\u2009les champs\u2009\u00bb pendant que les canadien.ne.s blanches, d\u00e9barrass\u00e9es de ces besognes, pouvaient monter les \u00e9chelons et occuper des postes administratifs, de gouvernance, etc.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>&#13;\n&#13;\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">En effet, quand les femmes blanches ont finalement quitt\u00e9 ces m\u00e9tiers de soin non r\u00e9mun\u00e9r\u00e9s qui vint les remplacer\u2009?\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>&#13;\n&#13;\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><mark class=\"has-inline-color has-text-link-color\" style=\"background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);\"><em>Les femmes immigrantes.\u00a0<\/em>\u00a0<\/mark><\/p>&#13;\n&#13;\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Quand elles peuvent finalement travailler, s\u2019\u00e9duquer, poursuivre une carri\u00e8re comme les hommes blancs, qui garde les enfants?\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>&#13;\n&#13;\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Vers qui se transpose ce poids inh\u00e9rent au travail domestique non r\u00e9mun\u00e9r\u00e9\u2009?\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>&#13;\n&#13;\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><mark class=\"has-inline-color has-text-link-color\" style=\"background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);\"><em>Les femmes immigrantes.\u00a0<\/em>\u00a0<\/mark><\/p>&#13;\n&#13;\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Et d\u2019autant plus, au Canada, <mark class=\"has-inline-color has-text-link-color\" style=\"background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);\">les femmes noires\u00a0<\/mark><\/p>&#13;\n&#13;\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Par cons\u00e9quent, m\u00eame si les politiques en termes d\u2019immigration ont connu des avanc\u00e9es depuis cette \u00e9poque de permis restrictifs, l\u2019impact s\u2019est ressenti sur les premi\u00e8res, deuxi\u00e8mes voire troisi\u00e8me g\u00e9n\u00e9ration de nouveaux.elles arrivant.e.s.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>&#13;\n&#13;\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">De plus, quant \u00e0 la d\u00e9qualification syst\u00e9matique du niveau d\u2019\u00e9tudes et d\u2019exp\u00e9riences hors Canada des nouveaux.elles arrivant.e.s, les changements apport\u00e9s demeurent toujours minimes. Il n\u2019est pas rare de croiser des chirurgien.ne.s, des professeurs universitaires, des responsables d\u2019entreprises, venant de pays d\u2019Afrique ou des Cara\u00efbes, recommencer au \u00ab\u2009bas de l\u2019\u00e9chelle\u2009\u00bb sans en avoir le choix. D\u00e8s lors, ces politiques rev\u00eatent au fil des ann\u00e9es d\u2019autres terminologies, mais leur essence discriminatoire perdure en cr\u00e9ant un foss\u00e9 entre un \u00ab\u202fnous\u202f\u00bb et les \u00ab\u202fautres\u202f\u00bb.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>&#13;\n&#13;\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Et c\u2019est la cr\u00e9ation de ces \u00ab\u202fautres\u202f\u00bb, confin\u00e9s \u00e0 des \u00e9chelons sociaux consid\u00e9r\u00e9s \u00ab\u202fplus bas\u202f\u00bb qui instaure le racisme syst\u00e9mique. Ces \u00ab\u202fautres\u202f\u00bb victimes des effets du racisme syst\u00e9mique, d\u00e9marrent une vie avec des d\u00e9savantages, des disqualifications, qui se mat\u00e9rialisent par des politiques d\u2019assujettissement. Des politiques r\u00e9fractaires ne reconnaissant ni l\u2019exp\u00e9rience dans le pays d\u2019origine, ni les dipl\u00f4mes, ni les qualifications. \u202f\u00a0<\/p>&#13;\n&#13;\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Le racisme syst\u00e9mique demeure\u202fl\u00e0, sournois et pernicieux, se cachant sous des mots comme <em>multiculturalisme<\/em>, <em>diversit\u00e9<\/em>, <em>m\u00e9ritocratie<\/em> et contribue \u00e0 la hi\u00e9rarchisation des humain.e.s dans la soci\u00e9t\u00e9, en se basant sur l\u2019exclusion par la race. Il se dissimule sous des politiques d\u2019int\u00e9gration bancales qui perp\u00e9tuent les in\u00e9galit\u00e9s et favorisent perp\u00e9tuellement les m\u00eames personnes. Il cr\u00e9e les vainqueurs et les perdants et devient une condition sine qua none \u00e0 cette binarit\u00e9 accablante.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>&#13;\n&#13;\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">D\u00e8s lors, raviver un pass\u00e9 discriminant permet d\u2019effectuer un travail de m\u00e9moire essentiel qui met en lumi\u00e8re les discriminations existantes qui fa\u00e7onnent encore nos histoires.\u00a0<\/p>&#13;\n&#13;\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u00a0<\/p>&#13;\n&#13;\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><mark class=\"has-inline-color has-text-link-color\" style=\"background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);\">LEXIQUE<\/mark><\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>&#13;\n&#13;\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Discrimination<\/strong>: Fait de s\u00e9parer un groupe humain des autres en le traitant plus mal ( Dictionnaire, LeRobert)\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>&#13;\n&#13;\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>M\u00e9ritocratie :<\/strong> Un mod\u00e8le m\u00e9ritocratique est un principe ou un id\u00e9al d&#8217;<a href=\"https:\/\/fr.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Organisation_sociale\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">organisation sociale<\/a> qui tend \u00e0 promouvoir les individus \u2014 dans diff\u00e9rents corps sociaux ; \u00e9cole; universit\u00e9 ; grandes \u00e9coles; institutions civiles ou militaires ; monde du travail; administrations; \u00c9tat, etc. \u2014 en fonction de leur m\u00e9rite (<a href=\"https:\/\/fr.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Talent_(aptitude)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">aptitude<\/a>, travail, efforts, comp\u00e9tences, <a href=\"https:\/\/fr.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Intelligence\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">intelligence<\/a>, vertu) et non d&#8217;une origine sociale (syst\u00e8me de <a href=\"https:\/\/fr.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Classe_sociale\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">classe<\/a>), de la richesse (<a href=\"https:\/\/fr.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Reproduction_sociale\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reproduction sociale<\/a>) ou des relations individuelles (syst\u00e8me de \u00ab <a href=\"https:\/\/fr.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Copinage\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">copinage<\/a> \u00bb) (Wikip\u00e9dia)\u00a0<\/p>&#13;\n&#13;\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Racisme syst\u00e9mique :<\/strong> Le racisme syst\u00e9mique d\u00e9signe l&#8217;ensemble de la structure soci\u00e9tale compos\u00e9e d\u2019institutions, de lois et de politiques qui maintiennent un syst\u00e8me d\u2019in\u00e9galit\u00e9s qui privil\u00e9gie et opprime diff\u00e9rents groupes dans la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 selon la <a href=\"https:\/\/amnistie.ca\/lexique-pour-lantiraciste#notions-base\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u00ab race \u00bb<\/a> qui leur est attribu\u00e9e. Ces in\u00e9galit\u00e9s conf\u00e8rent des privil\u00e8ges aux personnes blanches et portent atteinte aux droits des personnes noires, racis\u00e9es et autochtones (Amnistie Internationale Canada Francophone-AICF)\u00a0<\/p>&#13;\n&#13;\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u00a0<\/p>&#13;\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What the famous adage, &#8220;History is written by the victors,&#8221; reveals is that our histories are full of &#8220;omissions,&#8221; ellipses, which we must unearth so that they finally become &#8220;truths.\u201d Thus, when I explore a subject, when I try to break it down, I always commit myself to digging into the 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