Immigrant Canada : : Demographic, Economic, and Social Challenges / / ed. by Leo Driedger, Shiva Halli.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
• MitwirkendeR: Armstrong, Tamara L.,; Balakrishnan, T.R.,; Basavarajappa, K.G.,; Beaujot, Roderic P.,; Boyd, Monica,; Driedger, Leo,; Esses, Victoria M.,; Frideres, James S.,; Gingras, Lucie,; Halli, Shiva S.,; Harrison, Brian R.,; Hou, Feng,; Jackson, Lynne M.,; Jones, Frank,; Mata, Fernando,; Neuwirth, Gertrud,; Nolan, Jeffery M.,; Piche, Victor,; Ram, Bali,; Renaud, Jean,; Shin, Edward,; Simmons, Alan B.,; Vries, John de,
• HerausgeberIn: Driedger, Leo,; Halli, Shiva,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]; ©1999
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (336 p.)

Immigration has defined Canada throughout history, and the changes in immigration patterns over the last few decades have radically altered the nature of Canadian society. With an increasingly large percentage of the foreign-born population coming from the Third World, multiculturalism in Canada has...

Table of Contents

• 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