The book of the history professor Sean Mills "A place in the sun, Haiti, the Haitians and Quebec" (Une place au soleil, Haïti, les Haïtiens et le Québec) published by Éditions Mémoire d'Encrier, has just won the Grand Prix of the Presidency of the National Assembly of Quebec.

"In the midst of a continuous stream of studies trying to understand the influence of the Western powers on the internal development of Haiti, I wanted to do the opposite: examine how Haiti, Haitian migrants have influenced and marked the development of a Western society," explains the author.

What is the relationship between Haitian migration and politics in Quebec? How are articulate the global issues around migration and Quebec society? To what extent the migrants guided debates about the nation, language, class, sexuality? This book explores these aspects from the 1930s to the 1980s, through the cross-stories of Quebec and Haiti. The result: a fierce struggle for change, a fight against racism and exclusion, the author tells a fascinating story of Haiti in Quebec.

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Sean Mills is the author of numerous works on the history of Quebec and Canada. His work earned him the Governor General's Gold Medal, the John Bullen Award, the Eugène A. Forsey Award and the Quebec Writers' Federation First Book Award. Sean Mills is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History at the University of Toronto.

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