Residential Segregation of Visible Minorities in Canada's Gateway Cities

Type of resource
Authors/collaborators
Title
Residential Segregation of Visible Minorities in Canada's Gateway Cities
Abstract
The authors point out that although the influx of visible minority immigrants has created an atmosphere of diversity and multiculturalism in Canada's three major gateway cities - Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver - immigration has also produced metropolitan landscapes of fragmentation and ethnic separation. The objective of the authors' study is to compare the residential patterns of visible minority populations in Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver, using a rigorous and consistent method that examines the temporal and spatial nature of segregation and its links to local housing characteristics. They review the literature on models of urban separation, and ethnic and visible minority segregation in Canadian cities, and develop four propositions regarding expected residential patterns and concentrations of visible minorities. The authors test these propositions using an analysis of 1986, 1991 and 1996 Census data, in which residential patterns in the three cities are examined and related to the distribution of different types of housing.
Publication
The Canadian Geographer / Le Géographe canadien
Volume
Vol. 46
Issue
no. 3
Pages
204-222
Date
September 2002
Language
en
Citation
Bauder, Harald, and Bob Sharpe. “Residential Segregation of Visible Minorities in Canada’s Gateway Cities.” The Canadian Geographer / Le Géographe canadien Vol. 46, no. 3 (September 2002): 204–222.
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