Book Description
Examines various ethnic groups including British, Macedonian, Italian, Chinese, and Jewish immigrants; and ethnic neighbourhoods including Little Indias and Chinatowns in Canada.
Author : John Zucchi
Publisher :
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 27,26 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Canada
ISBN :
Examines various ethnic groups including British, Macedonian, Italian, Chinese, and Jewish immigrants; and ethnic neighbourhoods including Little Indias and Chinatowns in Canada.
Author : Raymond Breton
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 19,61 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Canada
ISBN : 0773529578
Annotation The collected writings of a leading authority on Canada's ethnic and linguistic diversity.
Author : Edward Shizha
Publisher : Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,39 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Canada
ISBN : 9781433148668
The book presents multiple perspectives and arguments on how immigrants and refugees react to their 'new home' in the North and how they maintain memories of their country of origin.
Author : Barrington Walker
Publisher : Canadian Scholars’ Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 41,13 MB
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 155130340X
Examines the complex and disturbing history of immigration and racism in Canada. This book covers themes including Native/non-Native contact, migration and settlement in the nineteenth century, immigrant workers and radicalism, human rights, internment during WWII, and racism.
Author : Carlos Teixeira
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 49,23 MB
Release : 2015-02-26
Category : House & Home
ISBN : 1442622903
Since the 1960s, new and more diverse waves of immigrants have changed the demographic composition and the landscapes of North American cities and their suburbs. The Housing and Economic Experiences of Immigrants in U.S. and Canadian Cities is a collection of essays examining how recent immigrants have fared in getting access to jobs and housing in urban centres across the continent. Using a variety of methodologies, contributors from both countries present original research on a range of issues connected to housing and economic experiences. They offer both a broad overview and a series of detailed case studies that highlight the experiences of particular communities. This volume demonstrates that, while the United States and Canada have much in common when it comes to urban development, there are important structural and historical differences between the immigrant experiences in these two countries.
Author : Andrew Griffith
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 32,93 MB
Release : 2015-08
Category : Reference
ISBN : 098806409X
With over 20 percent of the population foreign-born, and with more than 250 ethnic origins, Canada is one of the world's most multicultural societies. Canada's ethnic and religious diversity continues to grow alongside immigration. Yet how well is Canada's model of multiculturalism and citizenship working, and how well are Canadians, whatever their ethnic or religious origin, doing? Will Canada's relative success compared to other countries continue, or are there emerging fault lines in Canadian society? Canadian Multiculturalism: Evidence and Anecdote undertakes an extensive review of the available data from Statistics Canada, Citizenship and Immigration Canada operational statistics, employment equity and other sources to answer these questions and provide an integrated view covering economic outcomes, social indicators, and political and public service participation. Over 200 charts and tables are used to engage readers and substantiate the changing nature of Canadian diversity.
Author : Leo Driedger
Publisher :
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 22,34 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Social Science
ISBN :
This book examines a broad range of topics and issues in Canadian ethnicity, including theories of ethnicity and ethnic change, a history of demography and multicultural regionalism, ethnic identity and identification, language and the Quebec "nation," rural and urban ethnic enclaves, racial inequality and powerlessness, class and socio-economic status, attitudes towards ethnic groups, and the quest for ethnic rights.
Author : Royden Loewen
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 24,42 MB
Release : 2009-11-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1442697148
Over the course of the twentieth century, sequential waves of immigrants from Europe, Asia, Latin America, and Africa settled in the cities of the Canadian Prairies. In Immigrants in Prairie Cities, Royden Loewen and Gerald Friesen analyze the processes of cultural interaction and adaptation that unfolded in these urban centres and describe how this model of diversity has changed over time. The authors argue that intimate Prairie cities fostered a form of social diversity characterized by vibrant ethnic networks, continuously evolving ethnic identities, and boundary zones that facilitated intercultural contact and hybridity. Impressive in scope, Immigrants in Prairie Cities spans the entire twentieth century, and encompasses personal testimonies, government perspectives, and even fictional narratives. This engaging work will appeal to both historians of the Canadian Prairies and those with a general interest in migration, cross-cultural exchange, and urban history.
Author : Warren E. Kalbach
Publisher :
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 32,73 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Social Science
ISBN :
Author : Wei Li
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 20,82 MB
Release : 2008-12-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0824830652
Winner of the 2009 Book Award in Social Sciences, Association for Asian American Studies This innovative work provides a new model for the analysis of ethnic and racial settlement patterns in the United States and Canada. Ethnoburbs—suburban ethnic clusters of residential areas and business districts in large metropolitan areas—are multiracial, multiethnic, multicultural, multilingual, and often multinational communities in which one ethnic minority group has a significant concentration but does not necessarily constitute a majority. Wei Li documents the processes that have evolved with the spatial transformation of the Chinese American community of Los Angeles and that have converted the San Gabriel Valley into ethnoburbs in the latter half of the twentieth century, and she examines the opportunities and challenges that occurred as a result of these changes. Traditional ethnic and immigrant settlements customarily take the form of either ghettos or enclaves. Thus the majority of scholarly publications and mass media covering the San Gabriel Valley has described it as a Chinatown located in Los Angeles’ suburbs. Li offers a completely different approach to understanding and analyzing this fascinating place. By conducting interviews with residents, a comparative spatial examination of census data and other statistical sources, and fieldwork—coupled with her own holistic view of the area—Li gives readers an effective and fine-tuned socio-spatial analysis of the evolution of a new type of racially defined place. The San Gabriel Valley tells a unique story, but its evolution also speaks to those experiencing a similar type of ethnic and racial conurbation. In sum, Li sheds light on processes that are shaping other present (and future) ethnically and racially diverse communities. The concept of the ethnoburb has redefined the way geographers and other scholars think about ethnic space, place, and process. This book will contribute significantly to both theoretical and empirical studies of immigration by presenting a more intensive and thorough "take" on arguments about spatial and social processes in urban and suburban America.