Ethnocultural minority enclaves in Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver /

This is not simply the result of the preferences of immigrants and members of visible minority groups but is also related to the dynamics of housing markets and the behaviour of “mainstream” popula- tions. [...] After introducing the six questions that animate this research, I discuss the socio-demographic profiles of the three cities, and then proceed to the main analysis of data from the National Household Survey (NHS) and the Immigrant Landing File (ILF).1 Framing the Analysis: Key Terms and Canadian Research Findings Five key terms are used to describe the residential patterns of immigrant and minorit [...] This term should be used carefully, though, and only when three conditions apply: (1) the vast majority of the members of a group live in the same area or a small number of areas; (2) the group constitutes the vast majority of the popula- tion of the area or areas; and (3) the areas are also associated with socio-economic deprivation (Hiebert 2010). [...] The proportion of Family Class immigrants is not so different across the three cities, but in the other admission cat- egories the cities do differ considerably (see the appendix for a description of the admission classes).3 The ratio of Economic Class immigrants is lowest in Montreal, and that city has attracted the highest proportion of refugees and a higher relative number of immigrants in the [...] The social geographies of Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver in 2011 Enclave landscapes Table 4 demonstrates one of the main uses of the neighbourhood typology, by disaggregat- ing the overall distributional patterns of Whites versus visible minority groups in the three metropolitan areas.