PLAN100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Visible Minority, Immigration, Major Trauma
20 Mar 2016
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Chapter 9 new diversity: social change as immigration. Immigration is major source of social transformation in cities across the country: 97% of immigrants go to urban areas. There are complex variables that determine where immigrants settle and what their effects on the community will be both immigrant and native born. It"s a long-term and complex process, socio-spatial patterns often take generations. Three stages of immigration: arrival, settlement and integration. First affected by european immigration that changed how and where aboriginals lived. Former aboriginal settlements make up the backbone of canada"s urban system. Immigration introduces new values, culture, policies to canada: one central theme is how broad spectrum of immigrants" experiences and outcomes on cities versus the economic and social conditions they arrived under. The integration of immigrants has brought major change, although at first they adapt, eventually they bring about change.
