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Article: Changing colours: spatial assimilation and new racial minority immigrants.(Black, Chinese and South Asian immigrants in Toronto, Canada)
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- Canadian Journal of Sociology
- Article date:
- January 1, 2004
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Abstract: The social complexion of Canadian cities have been irreversibly altered since the 1960s as new waves of visible minority immigrants have replaced traditional white, European, migrant flows. For Canada and other nations with little prior history of "racial" diversity, this development raises the prospect of racialized urban ghettoes along American lines. We address this question with "locational attainment" models estimated with census micro-data for Toronto, the only Canadian city with a large black population. Unlike previous studies, we conclude that residential settlement patterns among Blacks and South Asians, like those of recent non-English speaking white ...