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Record Nr.

UNINA9910820414803321

Titolo

Immigrant Canada : demographic, economic, and social challenges / / Shiva S. Halli and Leo Driedger, editors

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 1999

©1999

ISBN

1-282-02606-2

9786612026065

1-4426-7602-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (371 p.)

Disciplina

301.3240971

Soggetti

Immigrants - Canada

Winnipeg (Manitoba, 1996)

Livres numeriques.

e-books.

Electronic books.

Canada Emigration and immigration

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Contributors -- 1. The Immigrant Challenge 2000 -- Part One: Theories and Policies -- 2. Immigration Policy: Imagined Futures -- 3. Toward a Theory of Immigrant Integration -- 4. Managing Immigrant Social Transformations -- Part Two: The Demographic Impact -- 5. Immigration and Demographic Structures -- 6. Residential Patterns in Cities -- 7. Internal Migration of Immigrants -- 8. Patterns of Acquiring Citizenship -- Part Three: The Economic Impact -- 9. Comparative Immigrant Economic Integration -- 10. Economic Threat and Attitudes toward Immigrants -- 11. Visible Minority Income Differences -- Part Four: The Social Impact -- 12. Foreign Born Language Acquisition and Shift -- 13. Integrating Gender, Language, and Race -- 14. Intergenerational Language Learning -- References

Sommario/riassunto

The contributions in this volume reflect a wide variety of research



orientations and describe the diversity and complexity of doing research focusing on immigrants who have come to Canada.