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The world in a city / edited by Paul Anisef and Michael Lanphier.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Toronto, Ont. ; Buffalo, N.Y. : University of Toronto Press, ©2003.Description: 1 online resource (viii, 543 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781442670259
  • 1442670258
  • 9780802084361
  • 0802084362
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: World in a city.DDC classification:
  • 305.9/0691/09713541 23
LOC classification:
  • JV7295.T67 W67 2003eb
Online resources:
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.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 479-515) and index.

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.

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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.

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