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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.

Title Immigrant Canada : demographic, economic, and social challenges / Shiva S. Halli and Leo Driedger, editors.
Edition 1st ed.
Publisher Toronto, [Ontario]
Buffalo, [New York]
London, [England] : University of Toronto Press
Creation Date 1999
Notes Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references.
English
Content 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
Extent 1 online resource (371 p.)
Language English
Copyright Date ©1999
National Library system number 997010704161005171
MARC RECORDS
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