Mutations of Vancouver’s Chinatown: Spatial redistribution and new territorial logic's

Type :

Presentation

Pages :

7 pages

Format :

.doc

Published date :

01/16/2009

Category :

Social studies

Sub category :

Sociology

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Summary :

Introduction.
The old Chinatown: Ghettoisation and logic of segregation.
1. Socio-economic profile of earliest Chinese immigrants.
2. Spatial segregation.
3. The School of Chicago's model: The ghetto.
The new Chinatown: A voluntary and intentional separation.
1. New socio-economic profile of Chinese migrants.
2. A new logic of aggregation, the concept of 'ethnoburb'.
3. The new spatial concentration as a voluntary choice.
4. Transnational logics.
Conclusion.
Bibliography.

Abstract

Large cities tend to be inhabited by minorities, immigrants and trans-national communities. In order to study this new dynamic, I have chosen the city of vancouver (British Columbia) in Canada. Actually, I will be spending my 3rd year in the University of British Columbia in vancouver; that is why I am very interested in this city. vancouver was for a long time the gateway for Chinese immigrants coming to Canada, because of its geographical situation. Today, Toronto is becoming the main city because of the number of immigrants that live there, but vancouver remains very important for studying the Chinese community's settlements. In this paper, I will be especially interested in social geography of Chinese immigrants, and in the relationships between immigration and urban change. Indeed, types of habitat and geographical repartition in the city are the identification of the separation of social groups. new trends of settlement show the transformation of the place of the Chinese population in the social hierarchy in vancouver.