The World in a City

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

• ISBN13: 9780802084361
• ISBN10: 0802084362
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-09-01
• 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	p. vii
Introduction: Immigration and the Accommodation of Diversity	p. 3
Becoming an Immigrant City: A History of Immigration into Toronto since the Second World War	p. 19
Immigrants in the Greater Toronto Area: A Sociodemographic Overview	p. 63
Towards a Comfortable Neighbourhood and Appropriate Housing: Immigrant Experiences in Toronto	p. 132
Immigrants' Economic Status in Toronto: Stories of Triumph and Disappointment	p. 192
Immigrant Students and Schooling in Toronto, 1960s to 1990s	p. 263
Diversity and Immigrant Health	p. 316
Images of Integrating Diversity: A Photographic Essay	p. 354
Integrating Community Diversity in Toronto: On Whose Terms?	p. 373
World in a City: A View from Policy	p. 457
Epilogue: Blockages to Opportunity	p. 474
References	p. 479
Contributors	p. 523
Index	p. 529
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