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The economic integration of immigrants in Metropolitan Vancouver

25 Jun 2009

Incipient Chinese, Indian and Japanese com- The Local Context: Immigration munities began to develop in the years leading up to and the Changing Cultural and following the turn of the century. [...] Small Chinese and Japanese enclaves contin- Britain and Europe, but the Gold Rush of the mid-nine- ued to exist near the downtown, but they stopped teenth century and the construction of the continental growing, especially in relation to the rapidly expand- railways in the 1860s and 1870s attracted individuals ing European populations. [...] At mid-century (1951 in the closing years of the nineteenth century and the census figures), 71 percent of the metropolitan popu- first half of the twentieth century. [...] Place sites in the Vancouver region and in other parts of of birth and year of official landing are included, so British Columbia.17 All are members of the immigrants are clearly identifiable in the census. [...] The important point for readers to ics, income (from various sources) and geographical bear in mind is the scale of services offered and the location, and is therefore highly applicable to the attention paid to the issue of immigrant integration evaluation of policy decisions, especially those that across the region.
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Authors

Hiebert, Daniel

Pages
44
Published in
Canada

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