Social Ties and Settlement Processes: French and North African Migrants in Montreal‪.‬

ABSTRACT/RESUME The study of migration trajectories and active and significant social ties (spaces of sociability) created by migrants of French and North African origin in Montreal gives substance to the economic, social, and symbolic dimensions of settlement. This article examines feelings of belonging to the society of residence and elsewhere and the identity strategies mobilized by these migrants. Recourse to markers illustrate, particularly in this case, an element of an historically constituted social relation, and operates at times as an inclusion strategy and at times an exclusion strategy. What does citizenship mean? Can immigrants calls themselves Quebecois? Feelings of belonging to one or more collectivities reveal at once migration pathways (including reasons for emigration), events that are a part of the life cycle, and settlement modes. Immigrants' often multiple affiliations give citizenship (Canadian in this case) a political, social, and at times pragmatic character, whereas the city emerges as a solid ancho r for the sense of belonging.