Based on the longest running panel study of its kind in Canada, this book examines events in the lives of a generation of Ontario residents who graduated from grade twelve in 1973. The study recreates the world of the early 1970s in which these high school students faced the future. It recounts their educational and occupational experiences in the late 1970s, follows their vocational and career pathways during the subsequent decade, and searches for patterns in their personal and family lives through the late 1980s and early 1990s. By painting a portrait of a little-known cohort, this...
Based on the longest running panel study of its kind in Canada, this book examines events in the lives of a generation of Ontario residents who gra...
Toronto is perhaps the most multicultural city in the world. The process of settlement and integration in modern-day Toronto is, however, more difficult for recent immigrants than it was for those newcomers arriving in previous decades. Many challenges face newly settled immigrants, top among them access to healthcare, education, employment, housing, and other economic and community services. The concept of social exclusion opens up promising ways to analyze the various challenges facing newcomers and The World in a City explores Toronto's ability to sustain a civic...
Toronto is perhaps the most multicultural city in the world. The process of settlement and integration in modern-day Toronto is, however, more diff...
Paul Anisef Kenise Murphy Kilbridge Murphy Kilbride
Based on an extensive and collaborative research effort, this book features findings from particular ethno-racial groups in Ontario, highlighting family life, social relations, citizenship, education, and employment. It also includes comparisons of immigrant and refugee youth from different countries of origin. In the introductory and concluding chapters, Anisef and Kilbride provide an overview of current research on immigrant youth settlement, as well as an integrated summary of research findings and perspectives for future investigation.
Based on an extensive and collaborative research effort, this book features findings from particular ethno-racial groups in Ontario, highlighting fami...
Social Infrastructure and Vulnerability in the Suburbs examines how the combination of the low-density, car-centric geography of outer suburbs and neoliberal governance in the past several decades has affected disadvantaged populations in North American metro areas. Taking the example of York Region, a large outer suburb north of Toronto, the authors provide a spatial analysis that illuminates the invisible geography of vulnerability in the region.
The volume examines access to social services by vulnerable groups who are not usually associated with the suburbs: recent...
Social Infrastructure and Vulnerability in the Suburbs examines how the combination of the low-density, car-centric geography of outer sub...
Social Infrastructure and Vulnerability in the Suburbs examines how the combination of the low-density, car-centric geography of outer suburbs and neoliberal governance in the past several decades has affected disadvantaged populations in North American metro areas. Taking the example of York Region, a large outer suburb north of Toronto, the authors provide a spatial analysis that illuminates the invisible geography of vulnerability in the region.
The volume examines access to social services by vulnerable groups who are not usually associated with the suburbs: recent...
Social Infrastructure and Vulnerability in the Suburbs examines how the combination of the low-density, car-centric geography of outer sub...
