GGR124H1 Lecture : Migration, cont’d & Transportation and planning
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Today"s class: migration, continued, discuss assignment 3, transportation and planning. The suburbs: the spatial mismatch of settlement services. Newcomers are increasingly moving to the 905 area because there are established communities there, but they lack the social and cultural supports that toronto provides. Immigrants now make up 40% of the population of mississauga, brampton, vaughan, and richmond hill. Furthermore, the federal government makes policy on immigration but local municipalities are left paying the costs of settlement services. Emergency housing for refugees (it makes it possible for immigrants to come here and do well) Monster homes" are associated with the new class of business immigrants who arrived in the 1980s and 1990s. They are known for their large size, their conversion of garden space to indoor space, and their aesthetic contrast to established homes. They upset popular stereotypes of poor immigrants: kingston road motels city was housing new comers and refuges in motels,
