Abstract
This article explores the role of linguistic affiliation in the social representation of the professional distress of francophone healthcare social workers in minority settings. Faced with several contradictions in the literature on the influence of linguistic affiliation on mental health and workplace well-being, we conducted 30 semi-directed interviews with healthcare social workers in three provinces: Manitoba, Ontario and New Brunswick. The thematic analysis of the interviews indicates that linguistic affiliation relates to the social representation of professional distress around matters of recognition, discrimination, employment precarity and role boundaries. These findings were discussed in terms of francophone social workers' professional identity, their multiple power relations and their lived experiences.
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