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Neighbourhood attainment and residential segregation among Toronto's visible minorities

by John Myles and Feng Hou
Business and Labour Market Analysis Division
Analytical Studies Branch research paper series, No. 206

Context

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 increased residential concentration by racial groups.

Objective(s)

We examine residential settlement patterns of Toronto 's three largest visible minority groups with "locational attainment" models.

Findings

Unlike previous studies, we conclude that residential settlement patterns among Blacks and South Asians, like those of recent non-English speaking white immigrants, conform rather well to the immigrant enclave model associated with conventional spatial assimilation theory.

Initial settlement is in disadvantaged immigrant neighbourhoods from which long-term more successful immigrants subsequently exit.

As anticipated by Logan, Alba and Zhang, however, early success in the housing market among Chinese immigrants is associated with the formation of more enduring ethnic communities.

Rather than being historically novel, however, the Chinese are replicating the settlement pattern of earlier Southern European immigrants and for much the same reasons-relative advantage in the housing market and low levels of English proficiency.

Data source(s)

Census 1996.

Also available: "Changing Colours: Spatial Assimilation and New Racial Minority Immigrants". Myles, J. and F. Hou. 2004. Canadian Journal of Sociology 29(1): 29-58.

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