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Author Anisef, Paul

Title The World in a City
Published Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2014

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Description 1 online resource (552 pages)
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; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z
Summary Toronto 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
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Subject Immigrants -- Ontario -- Toronto Region -- Social conditions -- 20th century
Multiculturalism -- Ontario -- Toronto Region -- History -- 20th century
Cultural pluralism -- Ontario -- Toronto Region -- History -- 20th century
Cultural pluralism
Emigration and immigration
Ethnic relations
Immigrants -- Social conditions
Multiculturalism
Social conditions
SUBJECT Toronto Region (Ont.) -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 20th century
Toronto Region (Ont.) -- Social conditions -- 20th century
Toronto Region (Ont.) -- Ethnic relations
Subject Ontario -- Toronto Region
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Lanphier, Michael
ISBN 9781442670259
1442670258