First of all), I'd like to ask you some personal
questions. This information will help us construct the profile of the leader we
interview.
7. Sex
Female
Male
8. What is your age bracket?
under 24
25 to 34
35 to 44
45 to 54
OVER 55
Answer refusal
9. Were you born in Canada?
Yes
No ....................................
Answer refusal
10. Are you a Canadian citizen?
Yes Answer refusal
Other citizenship?..............................
........................
11. What is your main language at home?
French
English
Other
................................................
Answer refusal
12. What is your professional field and what level of study did
you complete in that field?
.................................
None
Secondary school
High school
Bachelor degree
Master's degree
Doctoral degree
Other
7. Do you belong to a religious group? Which one?
Answer refusal
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Sous-section 2: Cheminement de la personne
interrogée
Objet de la section : Dégager l'histoire et le cheminement
du leader à l'intérieur ou à l'extérieur de sa
communauté.
We will now go on to some questions about your involvement
within or outside your community. This information will allow us to
understand your personal journey.
8. What kind of role have you played up until now in your
community?
Answer refusal
Details::...............
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9. How long does your commitment to a project in your community
usually last?
more than 15 years ago
from 11 to 15
from 6 to 10
from 1 to 5
less than one year
Refus de répondre
Ne s'applique pas
10. What event decided you to become involved in, your
association or community?
Answer refusal
Details:...............
11. Are you involved now in other movements, organisations or
political parties?
Yes
No
Answer refusal
Please give us some details about this group--is it based in your
country of birth (if that is not in Canada), or is it a Canadian group, local,
provincial or federal?
..................
12. Where would you pace yourself politically : on the
left or right? conservative or progressive ? anti-globalization or
pro-globalization?
Details:
...............................................................
14. Please describe how your association works, and how it gets
its funding.
Answer refusal
Details:
............................................................
Section 2:
IDENTITÉ REVENDIQUÉE
Objectif de cette section: Définir l'espace
identitaire auquel le leader se réfère et pour lequel il
s'implique socialement.
Let's move on to the questions about group identity; and by
that, I mean the women and the men that your social commitment should favour in
Quebec.
15. Are you acting for the benefit of a particular group or
community in Quebec?
Answer refusal
How would you describe that group or community?
...........................
16. Are you linked with some other African or Afro-descendant
group or community?
Answer refusal
Details:
......
17. In your opinion, is there a particular case of collective
action that should involve Africans and Afro-descendants living in Quebec or
Montreal?
Yes
No
Answer refusal
Details:
......
18. Africans and Afro-descendants living in Montreal use
different terms to describe themselves, such as Haitian, Jamaican, Senegalese,
African, Caribbean, Haitian-Quebecer, Canadian-Jamaican, African-Canadian,
Black, Canadian Black, etc. In your personal case, or in the case of your
community (if different), how do you identify yourself?
Answer refusal
Why do you identify yourself in this way?
......
19. How would you describe the social and political situation of
Africans and Afro-descendants living in Quebec today?
.........
Section 3:
LE « DEVOIR DE MÉMOIRE » AU SEIN DES
COMMUNAUTÉS
Objectif de la section: Déterminer la conception qu'a le
leader de la « mémoire collective », notamment celle qui
touche à l'esclavage des populations africaines et à la
colonisation des africains et Afro-descendants, ainsi que des problèmes
liés à la transmission de cette mémoire.(note: le terme
histoire et préféré ici à
mémoire, non pas comme substitut, mais pour garder l'avantage
de l'objectivité, qu'il a sur la notion de mémoire,
notion nécessairement « subjectivante »).
This third section is about the historical journey of African
and Afro descendant people...
20. Do you feel you have a relationship to a history that is
different from the overall history of Quebec, where you live?
Yes No
Answer refusal
Why or why not?:
21. Is it very important that your successors or descendants
should preserve the memory of that history?
Yes No
Answer refusal
Why and by what means?:
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22. In your opinion, are there any obstacles or difficulties that
hinder the transmission of your history (or memory) to those successors or
descendants? if so, what are those obstacles or difficulties and why do they
exist ?
Yes No
Answer refusal
Don't know
Section 4:
LA REVENDICATION DE MÉMOIRE ET LA
POLITIQUE.
Objectif de cette section: Comprendre comment le leader envisage
la prise en compte de la mémoire collective sur la scène
politique, et comment la pluralité des « revendications de
mémoire » peut-être gérée.
The fourth section of this interview is about the process of
claiming your history or the « duty of remembrance».
23. Did your association, community or yourself participate in
the Conference Durban?
Yes No
Answer refusal
If so, with what support (federal, provincial, etc. financial
support ), and in what way did you participate ?:
If not, can you explain why not?
24. In your opinion, what has been the impact of the Durban
Conference on the discussions within your community or association?
Doesn't know
Details..................
25. What is your opinion (or that of your association ) about the
Conference in Durban, South Africa?
Doesn't know
Answer refusal
Details...............
26. Alone, or through your community, have you ever initiated any
action to request official acknowledgement of any specific facts from the
history of your community in Quebec?
Answer refusal
Why and how did you proceed?
................................................................
27. What is your opinion (or that of your community ) about the
issue of reparation to African and Afro-descendant
minorities?
Answer refusal
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28. In your opinion, does all of Quebec society
have a «duty of remembrance» to Africans, or to Afro-descendants, or
to both?
Yes
No
Answer refusal
Why?:
..................
29. In your opinion, how should memory claims be managed in
political terms in Quebec?
Answer refusal
Don't know
Answer: ..................
30. Do you consider that the strategies and actions undertaken by
your community or association have had an impact at the local, provincial,
federal or international levels?
Yes No
Answer refusal
Please describe those changes:
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Section 5:
EN GUISE DE CONCLUSION
Objectif de la section: Prendre en compte les
préoccupations du leader qui ne sont pas abordées dans cette
recherche, dans le cadre des trois thèmes abordés.
This section is reserved for you to talk about any aspects of
this issue which are important to you...
31. Are there any aspects of Identity, collective memory, or the
«duty of remembrance» that you would like to talk more about?
Yes
No
If yes, can you explain why that aspect is important to you?
...........................
32. An finally, how do you foresee the future of Africans and
Afro-descendants in Quebec? Are you personally pessimistic or optimistic?
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