The social context of residential integration
Subtitle: ethnic groups in the United States and Canada
By: Ann H. Kim.
Series: The new Americans: recent immigration and American society
Publisher: LFB Scholarly Pub.; LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC
Published: 2009
Place of publication: El Paso
Language: eng
Number of pages: 217
ISBN-13: 9781593323479
Subjects: Minorities -- Housing -- United States; Minorities -- Housing -- Canada; Residential mobility -- United States; Residential mobility -- Canada; Ethnic groups -- United States; Ethnic groups -- Canada; Multiculturalism -- United State; Multiculturalism -- Canada
Description: "The residential segregation of ethnic groups represents their degree of integration or distinctiveness in society and is the result of a process of incorporation that differs by ethnic group and place. Kim explores how these patterns of integration are shaped by the cultural and structural organization of societies. Her comparative analysis of ethnic residential integration in Canada and the United States reveals that there are important cross-national as well as ethnic group differences. In the US, the racial structure affects integration; Canada is distinctive for its integration ideology and policies. At a group level, the motivation for migration, i.e., economic or humanitarian, is revealed as the key factor to explain integration patterns in both countries."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Pathways to spatial incorporation: a comparative framework; title: A contrast of contexts: the United States and Canada compared; title: Metropolitan integration: data, variables and methods; title: Panethnicity and ethnic resources in metropolitan integration; title: Narrowing the focus: four ethnic groups; title: Ethnic pathways to neighborhood integration; title: Conclusions: ethnic integration in comparative perspective.