| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 543 pages) |
| Contents |
Introduction: Immigration and the accommodation of diversity / Paul Anisef, Michael Lanphier -- Becoming an immigrant city: a history of immigration into Toronto since the Second World War / Harold Troper -- Immigrants in the Greater Toronto area: a sociodemographic overview / Clifford Jansen, Lawrence Lam -- Towards a comfortable neighbourhood and appropriate housing: immigrant experiences in Toronto / Robert A. Murdie, Carlos Teixeira -- Immigrants' economic status in Toronto: stories of triumph and disappointment / Valerie Preston, Lucia Lo, Shuguang Wang -- Immigrant students and schooling in Toronto, 1960s to 1990s / Carl E. James, Barbara Burnaby -- Diversity and immigrant health / Samuel Noh, Violent Kaspar -- Images of integrating diversity: a photographic essay / Gabrielle Scardellato -- Integrating community diversity in Toronto: on whose terms? / Myer Siemiatycki, Tim Rees, Roxana Ng, Kahn Rahi -- World in a city: a view from policy / Meyer Burstein, Howard Duncan -- Epilogue: Blockages to opportunity / Michael Lanphier, Paul Anisef |
| Summary |
Toronto does not provide a level 'playing field' for its newly arrived inhabitants, and, in failing to recognize the particular needs of new communities, fails to ensure a growth that would be of immense benefit to the city as a whole |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 479-515) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Immigrants -- Ontario -- Toronto -- Social conditions
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Multiculturalism -- Ontario -- Toronto
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- Urban.
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Emigration and immigration
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Immigrants -- Social conditions
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Multiculturalism
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| SUBJECT |
Toronto (Ont.) -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 20th century
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| Subject |
Ontario -- Toronto
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Anisef, Paul, editor.
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Lanphier, C. Michael, editor.
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| ISBN |
9781442670259 |
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1442670258 |
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9780802084361 |
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0802084362 |
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