From the Periphery to the Center: Evolution of the Spatial Distribution of the French-Speaking Community in New Brunswick (Canada)
Cao, Huhua
From the Periphery to the Center: Evolution of the Spatial Distribution of the French-Speaking Community in New Brunswick (Canada) - 2005.
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Linguistic issues are an integral part of the political debate in Canada, particularly for the French-speaking minorities in the English-speaking provinces. Urbanization in the Anglophone-dominated urban areas of the more peripheral French-Speaking communities has considerably modified the linguistic map of the country. In New Brunswick, the only official bilingual province of Canada, French-speaking Acadians have been able to resist to linguistic assimilation, thanks to a particular form of territorial appropriation. Their migration from the rural areas (the « periphery ») to the cities (the « center »), as a result of rapid urbanization since the 1960s, have deeply modified the francophone space in New Brunswick. Although the majority of Acadians is still concentrated in the northern part of the province (the « periphery »), those who migrated have mostly moved to the city of Moncton (the « center »). These two cores, one regional, the other urban, direct the flow of support for the creation of institutions. This study is part of a series of spatial and temporal analyses on the evolution of the Francophone population during the four last decades, using Geographic Information Systems (GIS). The results present a global overview of the evolution of the location of the Acadian Francophone population in New Brunswick and will help us understand the main challenges created by these spatial transformations.
From the Periphery to the Center: Evolution of the Spatial Distribution of the French-Speaking Community in New Brunswick (Canada) - 2005.
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Linguistic issues are an integral part of the political debate in Canada, particularly for the French-speaking minorities in the English-speaking provinces. Urbanization in the Anglophone-dominated urban areas of the more peripheral French-Speaking communities has considerably modified the linguistic map of the country. In New Brunswick, the only official bilingual province of Canada, French-speaking Acadians have been able to resist to linguistic assimilation, thanks to a particular form of territorial appropriation. Their migration from the rural areas (the « periphery ») to the cities (the « center »), as a result of rapid urbanization since the 1960s, have deeply modified the francophone space in New Brunswick. Although the majority of Acadians is still concentrated in the northern part of the province (the « periphery »), those who migrated have mostly moved to the city of Moncton (the « center »). These two cores, one regional, the other urban, direct the flow of support for the creation of institutions. This study is part of a series of spatial and temporal analyses on the evolution of the Francophone population during the four last decades, using Geographic Information Systems (GIS). The results present a global overview of the evolution of the location of the Acadian Francophone population in New Brunswick and will help us understand the main challenges created by these spatial transformations.
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