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Residential Segregation and Socio-economic Integration of Asians in Canadian Cities
ABSTRACT/RÉSUMÉ
Recent immigration trends have made Canada more ethnically diverse than ever before. The fastest growing groups are the Chinese and South Asians. Using recent Canadian census data, the paper examines whether this has resulted in greater concentration of these groups in selected Canadian cities. Differences among the cities are investigated. It is found that while these minority groups have distinct preferences for particular cities, concentration within cities has not increased. It is speculated that Canada's multiculturalism policies may have prevented greater segregation from the dominant groups, both in terms of residential location and in the labour market.
Les tendances récentes en matière d'immigration font que la population du Canada est ethniquement diversifiée comme elle ne l'a jamais été. Les groupes dont les effectifs augmentent le plus rapidement sont les Chinois et les Asiatiques de l'Asie du Sud. A partir de données de recensement, cet article étudie si ces tendances récentes font que l'ont retrouve une plus grande concentration d'immigrants dans certaines grandes villes canadiennes. Nous étudions les différences entre les villes. Les résultats montrent que les immigrants préfèrent s'établir dans certaines villes plutôt que dans d'autres, mais que la concentration au sein même des villes n'a pas augmenté. Nous suggérons que les politiques de multiculturalisme ont empêché une augmentation de la ségrégation résidentielle et sur le marché du travail de la part des groupes majoritaires.
One of the effects of recent immigration trends in Canada is to make Canada more ethnically diverse than ever before. The proportions of the charter groups of British and French have decreased while the proportions of other groups have increased in varying degrees. In the country as a whole, the proportion of British in either single or multiple origins in 1996 was, at 37 percent, well below half of the total. That proportion is expected to decline even further in the future. The French amounted to about a fifth of the total population in 1996 and are also expected to decline. The fastest growing groups are the "visible minorities" who in 1996 formed about 11.2 percent of the total, a proportion expected to increase substantially in the coming years. Statistics Canada medium-growth projections show that the proportion of visible...