The World in a City / / ed. by Paul Anisef, Michael Lanphier.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG and UP eBook Package 2000-2015
• MitwirkendeR: Anise, Paul,; Anisef, Paul,; Burnaby, Barbara,; Burstein, Meyer,; Duncan, Howard,; James, Carl E.,; Jansen, Clifford,; Kaspar, Violet,; Lam, Lawrence,; Lanphier, Michael,; Lo, Lucia,; Murdie, Robert A.,; Ng, Roxana,; Noh, Samuel,; Preston, Valerie,; Rahi, Khan,; Rees, Tim,; Scardellato, Gabriele,; Siemiatycki, Myer,; Teixeira, Carlos,; Troper, Harold,; Wang, Shuguang,
• HerausgeberIn: Anisef, Paul,; Lanphier, Michael,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2017]; ©2003
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (528 p.)

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 City explores 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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Immigration and the Accommodation of Diversity -- 1. Becoming an Immigrant City: A History of Immigration into Toronto since the Second World War -- 2. Immigrants in the Greater Toronto Area: A Sociodemographic Overview -- 3. Towards a Comfortable Neighbourhood and Appropriate Housing: Immigrant Experiences in Toronto -- 4. Immigrants' Economic Status in Toronto: Stories of Triumph and Disappointment -- 5. Immigrant Students and Schooling in Toronto, 1960s to 1990s -- 6. Diversity and Immigrant Health -- 7. Images of Integrating Diversity: A Photographic Essay -- 8. Integrating Community Diversity in Toronto: On Whose Terms? -- 9. World in a City: A View from Policy -- Epilogue: Blockages to Opportunity? -- References -- Contributors -- Index