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Subject(s)

• Minorities—Housing—Ontario—Toronto Metropolitan Area [Browse]
• Minorities—Housing—Québec (Province)—Montréal Metropolitan Area [Browse]
• Housing—Ontario—Toronto Metropolitan Area [Browse]
• Housing—Québec (Province)—Montréal Metropolitan Area [Browse]
• Montréal Metropolitan Area (Québec)—Social conditions [Browse]
• Toronto Metropolitan Area (Ont.)—Social conditions [Browse]

Related name

Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation [Browse]

Summary note

This study examines the relationships that exist between housing, neighbourhoods and social networks among visible minority immigrants living in metropolitan Toronto and Montreal. The importance of comparative research between cities and immigrant groups in order to dismantle the ideas of a singular "immigrant experience" is emphasized, as is the importance of intra-urban housing and neighbourhood-based processes within our largest cities in understanding the nature of settlement. The study focuses on Jamican, Central American and Vietnamese immigrants living in Toronto, and the same groups, substituting Haitians for Jamaican immigrants, in Montreal. The objectives of the study are five-fold: 1) to examine where individual immigrant groups live in Toronto and Montreal and their degree of segregation; 2) to suvey differences in housing conditions (tenure, dwelling type, cost, quality) between visible minority groups and to investigate factors which may account for such differentials; 3) to test the hypothesis that vertical immigration enclaves in high- and low-rise buildings are replacing older inner city neighbourhoods as reception areas for immigrants; 4) to compare and contrast the housing experiences, residential satisfaction, perceptions of the city and neighbourhoods, and types of neighbouring between different immigrant groups; and 5) to probe the development of community through an examination of the ways in which immigrants have developed, use and gain support from social networks of kin and friends. The study draws upon two data sources: the 1991 Canadian census and a questionnaire survey of 173 individuals. Among the study's major findings are: significant suburbanization of some immigrant groups in a variety of styles of housing with important variations between the two cities; somewhat poorer housing conditions for immigrants relative to British/French Canadians and that these differences in status are not simply a function of time of arrival, household income or family type; generally strong levels of satisfaction with housing and neighbourhoods among individuals in both cities; and the critical roles played by friends and family in facilitating post-arrival settlement over a period of years.

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Contents

• Chapter I. Introduction and Methodology
• Chapter II. Socio-Economic and Demographic Profile of Immigrants in Toronto and Montréal
• Chapter III. Immigrant Geographies in Toronto and Montréal : Questions of Distribution and Concentration
• Chapter IV. Housing Among Immigrants in Metropolitain Toronto and Montréal
• Chapter V. Housing Status Among Immigrants Living in Toronto and Montréal
• Chapter VI. Experiences and Perceptions of Housing and Neighbourhoods Among Immigrants in Toronto and Montréal
• Chapter VII. Preliminary Investigation of Social Networks : The Importance of Kin, Friends and Neighbours
• Chapter VIII. Conclusions and Suggestions for Further Research
• References
• Appendix I. Questionnaire.

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LCCN

cn^98703124^

OCLC

40300486

RCP

H - S

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