Immigrant enclaves and residential segregation: voices of racialized refugee and immigrant women

ID:	HARP-169
Title:	Immigrant enclaves and residential segregation: voices of racialized refugee and immigrant women
Source:	Canadian Woman Studies , v.19(3) Fall’99 pg 88-93
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Year:	1999
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Keywords:	Canada, discrimination, economic, social, and cultural rights, gender equality, human rights, movement and residency, woman, racism, sexism, civil and political rights, refugee, immigration, housing discrimination, housing, minority rights
Abstract:	One of the first major challenges that most refugees and many immigrants face on arrival to Canada is finding a place to live. Yet, there has been very little Canadian research on racism in relation to the housing system or racist discrimination in housing, as well as on the housing conditions or issues of new immigrants (Berneche). The literature on sexism and housing discrimination is new and sparse. Unfortunately, there is a strong tendency in the existing research on housing discrimination in western advanced industrial countries to focus exclusively on either the effects of racism or the effects of sexism, and more often on the former. There is only a tiny body of literature addressing both racism and sexism (Hulchanski). Are immigrant enclaves in Canadian cities the product of racism and exclusionary practices such as housing discrimination or immigrants’ choices and desire for familiar community? This article explores the experiences and commentary of racialized refugee and immigrant women which reveal aspects of all these factors. Canadian housing literature does not yet adequately account for the complexity of these women’s locations or the varied mechanisms that result in residential segregation, including racism, and its implications.
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