The Secularism on the Move research project examines the growing presence of secular people, politics, and ideas in the province of Québec and how they circulate transnationally in the Francophone world. It brings together researchers from twelve universities and more than a dozen students. 

Together, we are quantifying and theorizing the circulation of ideas and people, especially as they relate to these nine countries in the Francophonie: Algeria, Belgium, Canada (and Québec), France, Lebanon, Morocco, Senegal, Switzerland, and Tunisia. We do so through qualitative interviews and discourse analyses of media and legislation. 

We ask: which discourses on secularism circulate? By whom? How? What are their social and political impacts? How do they relate to language and to colonial politics in the Francophone world? And why these, and why now?

Please see this site for more information about our team, our dissemination projects and our activities, also available in French.