Canadian Review of Sociology-Revue Canadienne De Sociologie最新文献

{"title":"“Lachak” and the Normalization of Nonbelonging: Skilled Migration, Symbolic Capital, and Settlement in Canada","authors":"Hammad Khan","doi":"10.1111/cars.70049","DOIUrl":"10.1111/cars.70049","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article examines how skilled Pakistani newcomers to Canada experience and make sense of the loss of recognition associated with their prior professional identities following migration. Drawing on 43 life-history interviews in the Greater Toronto Area, I use the Urdu word <i>lachak</i> (flexibility) to describe how my interlocutors lower expectations, accept downward mobility, and reorient their identities in order to move forward with settlement. I argue that <i>lachak</i> captures how symbolic capital loss becomes embedded in everyday self-understandings, producing an embodied and often obscured sense of nonbelonging. The analysis also demonstrates that these processes are structured through gendered differences across professional and domestic domains. By foregrounding <i>lachak</i>, the article shows how nonbelonging persists through the normalization of diminished recognition in settlement.</p>","PeriodicalId":51649,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Review of Sociology-Revue Canadienne De Sociologie","volume":"63 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2026-08-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13435013/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148671312","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Pregnancy Anxiety as a Social Symptom: Personal Accounts of Pregnant Women During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Quebec","authors":"Laurence Charton","doi":"10.1111/cars.70047","DOIUrl":"10.1111/cars.70047","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This article presents the results of a study conducted in Quebec (Canada), in the Montreal and Abitibi-Temiscamingue regions, with forty pregnant women interviewed between 2020 and 2021 during the COVID-19 pandemic. Based on interpretive phenomenological analysis, the study highlights pregnancy-related anxiety exacerbated by reduced medical care, the exclusion of partners, social isolation, and the disruption of pregnancy-related rituals. While pregnancy is generally a significant transition in terms of identity and social life, women experienced this period in a context marked by loneliness, uncertainty, and increased mental strain. Public health measures focused on managing biological risks have paid little attention to their psychosocial and emotional needs. The exclusion of partners from medical appointments also revealed the limited institutional recognition of their role in the perinatal journey. The article contributes to the sociological understanding of pregnancy anxiety by framing it as a socially constructed phenomenon. It emphasizes the need for interdisciplinary approaches and calls for a revision of public health policies to better support pregnant women and fully recognize what giving birth means—for them and for society.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":51649,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Review of Sociology-Revue Canadienne De Sociologie","volume":"63 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2026-08-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148671305","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Heated Rivalry and Canadian Homonationalism","authors":"Niya St. Amant,&nbsp;Adam Ehsan Ali","doi":"10.1111/cars.70046","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/cars.70046","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>The Canadian television series Heated Rivalry, adapted from Rachel Reid's bestselling hockey romance novels, has been widely celebrated as a landmark representation of queer joy, healthy masculinities, and LGBTQ+ inclusion in sport. Set against the backdrop of a secret romance between Canadian hockey star Shane Hollander and Russian player Ilya Rozanov, the series has also become entangled with broader narratives of Canadian national identity. Drawing on Jasbir Puar's concept of homonationalism and scholarship on banal nationalism, this paper examines how Heated Rivalry mobilizes queer inclusion as evidence of Canadian moral progress while obscuring ongoing forms of exclusion and state violence. We argue that the series reproduces a distinctly Canadian form of homonationalism through its juxtaposition of a homophobic Russia and a tolerant Canada, its romanticization of iconic national symbols such as the Muskoka cottage, and its celebration within political and commercial spheres. These representations align queer inclusion with narratives of multiculturalism, diversity, and national exceptionalism, positioning Canada as a safe haven for LGBTQ+ people. At the same time, this imagined inclusivity exists alongside ongoing contradictions in Canadian governance, including restrictive immigration policies, uneven provincial protections for 2SLGBTQI+ communities, contested reconciliation processes, and persistent racial inequalities. By situating Heated Rivalry within contemporary debates surrounding nationalism, belonging, and queer citizenship, this paper demonstrates how popular cultural texts can function as sites through which homonationalist discourses are reproduced and normalized.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":51649,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Review of Sociology-Revue Canadienne De Sociologie","volume":"63 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2026-07-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148617392","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Erotic Wound: Sexual Racism and Queer Resistance in Digital Spaces","authors":"Carlo Handy Charles,&nbsp;Manjot Gill","doi":"10.1111/cars.70045","DOIUrl":"10.1111/cars.70045","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article proposes the <i>erotic wound</i> as a sociological concept to examine how queer people of colour (QPOC) experience sexual racism in digital intimacy, and—equally—to demonstrate how they actively contest, rework, and transform its effects through engagement in digital counterpublics. Drawing on qualitative content analysis of 37 online narratives from personal blog posts, essays, news reports, Reddit threads, TikTok and YouTube videos, we identify four interlocking dynamics: racial filtering and exclusion, racial fetishization, hypervisibility and erasure, and digital acts of resistance in subaltern counterpublics. Together, these dynamics reveal that the erotic wound is both an affective injury—producing anxiety, exhaustion, and diminished self-worth—and a social harm sustained by durable inequality, intersectional power relations, and performative scripts of desire in the neoliberal architectures of digital platforms. We draw on feminist andqueer scholarship, and Shiloh Whitney's theory of byproductive affective labour to explain how the wound intervenes in the body through the very relational encounter it organizes, and on Michel Serres's theory of noise and mediation (via Crocker) to show how platforms actively generate, rather than merely transmit, racialized patterns of exclusion and fetishization. Yet the erotic wound is not only diagnostic of harm; it is generative of social worlds. Through digital counterpublics, QPOC convert private harms into public critique, produce alternative imaginaries of desire and belonging, and propose new architectures of intimacy free from racial hierarchy. Foregrounding counterpublics as a primary site of collective world-making is not a secondary contribution of this article but its central one, alongside the theorization of harm. By conceptualizing the erotic wound as simultaneously diagnostic and generative, this study advances sociological understandings of how desire becomes both a site where sexual racism is reproduced and a terrain where it is contested and reimagined.</p>","PeriodicalId":51649,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Review of Sociology-Revue Canadienne De Sociologie","volume":"63 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2026-07-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13396529/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148580966","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Are Women Accepted at Work? Gender Discrimination in Chinese Firms","authors":"Anson Au","doi":"10.1111/cars.70043","DOIUrl":"10.1111/cars.70043","url":null,"abstract":"<p>To what extent is women's employment accepted in modern Chinese firms? Drawing on pooled 2017 and 2021 nationally representative Chinese General Social Survey (CGSS) data, this article estimates the socioeconomic predictors and prevalence of the belief that women should be stay-at-home wives instead of working in Chinese firms. The results illustrate that women in Chinese firms have socioeconomic resources commensurate with men, but they remain targeted by the persistent patriarchal belief that women should marry and be relegated to the household instead of work. Contrasting against conventional accounts of private firms as anti-discriminatory, private firm workers are observed to believe that women should be stay-at-home wives instead of working more than state firm workers. In particular, women workers are more likely to resist the traditional belief that women should be stay-at-home wives instead of working, whereas men appear more likely to endorse this belief, especially in private firms. The results suggest that women are not simply passive recipients of patriarchal beliefs, but exhibit a willingness to challenge their symbolic boundaries and reject traditional expectations of unequal gender relations in the workplace.</p>","PeriodicalId":51649,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Review of Sociology-Revue Canadienne De Sociologie","volume":"63 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2026-06-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/cars.70043","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148165577","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Pitfalls of Ethnic Aggregation: Iranians And Afghans, And The Problem Of ‘West Asian’ Category In Canada","authors":"Hamid Akbary,&nbsp;Omid Asayesh,&nbsp;Abdolmohammad Kazemipur","doi":"10.1111/cars.70039","DOIUrl":"10.1111/cars.70039","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In the Canadian community of official statistics producers and users, there has been an ongoing debate about the feasibility of using ‘visible minority’ categories to capture the experiences of Canada's racial minorities. Rarely, however, has this issue been examined from a factual angle; that is, the success of those categories in capturing the experiences of the groups they represent, without suppressing the diversity behind each category in a misleading way. In this study, we have used the latter approach in examining the feasibility of the visible minority category of ‘West Asian’, which is often used to refer to the Canadians of Iranian and Afghan origins, using Statistics Canada's confidential microdata files from the Longitudinal Immigration Database (IMDB), the General Social Survey (GSS), and the Census of Population. Through this multi-source quantitative analysis, the study compares the two groups across several key dimensions: human capital characteristics, religious identity and experiences, income levels, and labour market outcomes. By showing how this category obscures meaningful intragroup differences, this paper not only contributes to the growing bodies of literature on Iranians and Afghans in Canada but also highlights a need for more nuanced and intersectional approaches to understanding the experiences of minorities.</p>","PeriodicalId":51649,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Review of Sociology-Revue Canadienne De Sociologie","volume":"63 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2026-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/cars.70039","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148044361","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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