The Social Integration and Adjustment of Post-War Immigrants in Montreal and Toronto

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Title
The Social Integration and Adjustment of Post-War Immigrants in Montreal and Toronto
Abstract
The author outlines his preliminary analysis of data collected in the 1960s concerning differences in the nature and rates of social integration and adjustment of immigrants in Montreal and Toronto. The data were obtained from questionnaires distributed to a sample of post-war immigrants throughout Canada by the Economic and Social Research Division of the Department of Citizenship and Immigration. According to the Division the survey attempted to explore four major fields, namely, the future residence plans of immigrants, their attitude towards Canadian citizenship, their degree of satisfaction with their life in Canada, and a comparison of expectations prior to immigration. The author's research was prompted by curiosity about the extent to which the cultural characteristics of these two large metropolitan areas, particularly ethnic differences, affect the process of assimilation. Although there had been to that time a considerable number of studies dealing with immigrants in urban areas, the author argues that few attempts had been made to contrast the consequences of socio-economic differences for the adjustment and integration of immigrants.
Publication
Canadian Review of Sociology/Revue canadienne de sociologie
Volume
Vol. 1
Issue
no. 4
Pages
202-214
Date
November 1964
Language
en
Citation
Ossenberg, Richard J. “The Social Integration and Adjustment of Post-War Immigrants in Montreal and Toronto.” Canadian Review of Sociology/Revue canadienne de sociologie Vol. 1, no. 4 (November 1964): 202–214.
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