French Connections – Examining the Residential Clustering and Dispersion of Francophones in the Toronto Area

Karwowski, Nicolas and Rinner, Claus (2020) French Connections – Examining the Residential Clustering and Dispersion of Francophones in the Toronto Area. SHAPING URBAN CHANGE – Livable City Regions for the 21st Century. Proceedings of REAL CORP 2020, 25th International Conference on Urban Development, Regional Planning and Information Society. pp. 355-364. ISSN 2521-3938

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Abstract

Toronto is known as a city of neighbourhoods, many of which are defined by the cultural origins and traditions of immigrant groups. Examples of official or unofficial neighbourhood names include Chinatown, Koreatown, Little Tibet, Gerrard India Bazaar, Corso Italia, Little Portugal, Greektown, and more. Other major immigrant groups such as Scandinavian, German, and French are notably absent from the place names in Toronto and other major global cities, and we wanted to examine whether this reflects different patterns of residential clustering and dispersion. We chose to analyze the Francophone population in the Toronto metropolitan area, since French is an official language of Canada as well as being spoken by a number of different immigrant groups, which allows for comparisons of both, language and culture as a factor in settlement decisions. We found that French speakers, including those born in Toronto as well as intra-Canadian migrants, tend to live in clusters, while none of the individual Francophone immigrant groupsexamined in this research are clustered at a statistically signifcant level. Based on this finding, language rather than culture is a key factor in residential location decision-making.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: Language, Clustering, Spatial Analysis, Settlement, Immigration
Subjects: H Social Sciences > HA Statistics
H Social Sciences > HM Sociology
H Social Sciences > HT Communities. Classes. Races
Depositing User: REAL CORP Administrator
Date Deposited: 04 Feb 2021 11:48
Last Modified: 04 Feb 2021 11:48
URI: http://repository.corp.at/id/eprint/686

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