The World in a City

by Anisef, Paul; Lanphier, Michael; LANPHIER, C. MICHAEL

• ISBN13: 9780802035608
• ISBN10: 0802035604
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-10-01
• Publisher: Univ of Toronto Pr

Summary

Toronto is perhaps the most multicultural city in the world. The process of settlement and integration in modern-day Toronto is, however, more difficult for recent immigrants than it was for those newcomers arriving in previous decades. Many challenges face newly settled immigrants, top among them access to healthcare, education, employment, housing, and other economic and community services. The concept of social exclusion opens up promising ways to analyze the various challenges facing newcomers and The World in a Cityexplores Toronto's ability to sustain a civic society. This collection of essays highlights why the need to pay more attention to certain at-risk groups, and the importance of adapting policy to fit the changing settlement and clustering patterns of newcomers is of crucial importance. The authors' findings demonstrate that there are many obstacles to providing opportunity for immigrants, low resource bases in particular. Toronto, they suggest, 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.

Author Biography

PAUL ANISEF is a professor of Sociology and associate director of the Centre of Excellence for Research in Immigration and Settlement (CERIS) at York University. MICHAEL LANPHIER is professor emeritus of Sociology and senior scholar at the Centre for Refugee Studies at York University

Table of Contents

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS	vii
Introduction: Immigration and the Accommodation of Diversity	3	(16)
Paul Anisef and Michael Langhier
1 Becoming an Immigrant City: A History of Immigration into Toronto since the Second World War	19	(44)
Harold Troper
2 Immigrants in the Greater Toronto Area: A Sociodemographíc Overview	63	(69)
Clifford Jansen and Lawrence Lam
3 Towards a Comfortable Neighbourhood and Appropriate Housing: Immigrant Experiences in Toronto	132	(60)
Robert A. Murdie and Carlos Teixeira
4 Immigrants' Economic Status in Toronto: Stories of Triumph and Disappointment	192	(71)
Valerie Preston, Lucia Lo, and Shuguang Wang
5 Immigrant Students and Schooling in Toronto, 1960's to 1990's	263	(53)
Carl E. James and Barbara Burnaby
6 Diversity and Immigrant Health	316	(38)
Samuel Noh and Violet Kaspar
7 Images of Integrating Diversity: A Photographic Essay	354	(19)
Gabriele Scardellato
8 Integrating Community Diversity in Toronto: On Whose Terms?	373	(84)
Myer Siemiatycki, Tim Rees, Roxana Ng, and Khan Rahi
9 World in a City: A View from Policy	457	(17)
Meyer Kurstein and Howard Duncan
Epilogue: Blockages to Opportunity	474	(5)
Michael Langhier and Paul Anisef
REFERENCES	479	(44)
CONTRIBUTORS	523	(6)
INDEX	529