GEG 1302 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Chinatown, Labor Market Segmentation
11 Apr 2018
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Ethnicity: group of people with common ancestry and shared culture. Constructed primordial ethnicity (emergent ethnicity): interpreted as being rooted in kinship, family and folkways of groups. Ethnicity in canada: focus on ancestry and not how people de ne their own ethnic identities. Multiethnic neighbourhoods: an ethnic village ex: little italy, chinatown. Public spaces and ethnicity: use of public space contributes to how groups articulate ethnicity and how other social groups understand difference. (churches, festivals, parades) Place & ethnicity: neighbourhoods & role of residential community in promoting/preserving ethnic enclaves. Niche: occupations or forms of self-employment that are used by ethnic groups for economic survival. Encourages labour market segmentation: isolated host communities. Host society - 80% of population: non-isolated host communities. Host society - 50-80% of population: assimilation-pluralism enclaves. Host society a minority (30-50%) - (greatest ethnic mix: mixed minority enclaves. 70% population from minority groups - no group more than twice size of all other minority groups: polarized enclaves.
