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The world in a city / edited by Paul Anisef and Michael Lanphier.
De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 Available online
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- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Immigrants--Ontario--Toronto Region--Social conditions--20th century.
- Immigrants.
- Multiculturalism--Ontario--Toronto Region--History--20th century.
- Multiculturalism.
- Cultural pluralism--Ontario--Toronto Region--History--20th century.
- Cultural pluralism.
- Ontario--Toronto Region--Emigration and immigration--History--20th century.
- Ontario.
- Ontario--Toronto Region--Social conditions--20th century.
- Ontario--Toronto Region--Ethnic relations.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (552 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Toronto, Ontario ; Buffalo, [New York] ; London, [England] : University of Toronto Press, 2003.
- Language Note:
- English
- 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.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781442670259
- 1442670258
- OCLC:
- 923080884
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