Postsecondary and career orientation paths and power relations in Quebec: Discourses of young adults from an immigrant background
This paper documents the meaning that young adults with an immigrant background attribute to their post-secondary and career orientation paths. A sociological perspective, both relational and interactionist allows us to understand this meaning through the process negotiation of “majority/minority” relations. Based on a qualitative methodology, data was collected through biographical interviews with 25 participants living in Montreal. The results are presented in the form of a typology of orientation paths that are influenced by perceived equal/unequal power relations, by the feeling of inclusion or exclusion perceived by these young adults, as well as by the subjective relation that they tend to have with their pathways.