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SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHIES

1. Housing and Immigrants

2. Housing Related Discrimination in Canada


Housing and Immigrants: Selected Bibliography

a) Canadian

Alfred, A. and B. Sinclair (2002). It’s too Expensive and too Small: Research Findings on the Housing Conditions of Newcomers, St. Stephen’s Community House. Toronto: St. Stephen’s Community House.

Balakrishnan, T.R. and Z. Wu (1992). “Home ownership patterns and ethnicity in selected Canadian cities”, Canadian Journal of Sociology 17 (4): 389-403.

Beavis, M.A. (1995) Housing and Ethnicity: Literature Review and Select, Annotated Bibliography. Winnipeg: University of Winnipeg, Institute of Urban Studies, Bibliographica #6.

Bernèche, F. (1990). Problématique de l'habitation pour les ménages formant la nouvelle immigration à Montréal: Éléments d'information et d'intervention. Montreal.

Bezanson, R. (2003). Make Yourself at Home: Exploring Housing and Resettlement with Afghan Refugee Households in Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario. Unpublished Master’s Thesis, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario.

Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (n.d.) Special Studies on 1996 Census Data: Housing Conditions of Immigrants in the Toronto CMA, Socio-economic Research Highlight 55-12. Ottawa: Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation.

Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (n.d.) Special Studies on 1996 Census Data: Housing Conditions of Immigrants, Socio-economic Research Highlight 55-3. Ottawa: Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation.

Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation. (1993). The housing choices of immigrants: 1986. Ottawa: Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation.

Chisvin/Helfand and Associates. (1992). Refugee housing study (Research Report 92-004). Toronto: City of Toronto, Housing Department, Policy and Research Section.

Danso, R. and M. Grant (2000) “Access to housing as an adaptive strategy for immigrant groups: Africans in Calgary”, Canadian Ethnic Studies 32 (3): 19-43.

Dion, K. (2001) “Immigrants’ Perceptions of Housing Discrimination in Toronto: The Housing New Canadians Project”, Journal of Social Issues 57 (3): 523-539.

Ferdiinands, S. (2002). Sinhalese Immigrants in Toronto and their Trajectories into Home Ownership. Unpublished Master’s Thesis, York University, Toronto.

Lapointe Consulting and R. A. Murdie (1996) Immigrants and the Canadian Housing Market: Living Arrangements, Housing Characteristics, and Preferences. Ottawa: Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation.

Ley, D. and Tutchener, J. (2001). “Immigration, Globalisation and House Prices in Canada’s Gateway Cities”, Housing Studies, 16 (2), 199-223.

Kemeny, J. (1987). Immigrant housing conditions in Sweden: An analysis of unpublished 1980 census data (Research report SB:5). Gavle: The National Swedish Institute for Building Research.

Lundrigan, M. (1992). Invisible walls: Barriers to housing. Canadian Housing, 9(1-2), 8-10.

Massaquoi, D. L., Samnothra, B., & Pearson, E. (1991). Community consultation report: Access to permanent housing for new Canadians. Toronto: Access Committee to Permanent Housing for New Canadians.

Mercer, J. (1989). Asian migrants and residential location in Canada. New Community, 15(2), 185-202.

Miraftab, F. (2000) “Sheltering refugees: the housing experience of refugees in metropolitan Vancouver, Canada”, Canadian Journal of Urban and Regional Research 9 (1): 42-62.

Murdie, R. A. (2003). “Housing Affordability and Toronto’s Rental Market: Perspectives from the Housing Careers of Jamaican, Polish and Somali Newcomers”, Housing, Theory and Society, 20 (4), 183-96.

Murdie, R. A. (2003). “Immigrants, Housing and the Rental Affordability Problem”, Canadian Housing, 20 (2) 23-25.

Murdie, R. A. (2002). A Comparison of the Rental Housing Experiences of Polish and Somali Newcomers in Toronto. Research Bulleitin #9, Centre for Urban and Community Studies, University of Toronto.

Murdie, R. A. (2002) “The housing careers of Polish and Somali newcomers in Toronto’s rental market”, Housing Studies 17 (3): 423-443.

Murdie, R.A. and C. Teixiera (2003) “Towards a Comfortable Neighbourhood and Appropriate Housing: Immigrant Experiences in Toronto”, pp. 132-191 in Anisef, P. and M. Lanphier (eds.), The World in a City. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.

Murdie, R. A., et al. (1996). “Housing issues facing immigrants and refugees in Greater Toronto: Initial findings from the Jamaican, Polish, and Somali communities”. in E. Komut (editor) Housing Question of the ‘Others’. Ankara, Turkey: Chamber of Architects of Turkey.

Murdie, R. A. (1995). Immigrant's housing choices, 1991: Background report (Background report ). Ottawa: Canadian Mortgage and Housing Corporation, Research Division.

Owusu, T. (1998). To buy or not to buy: determinants of home ownership
among Ghanaian immigrants in Toronto. The Canadian Geographer, 42 (1): 40-52.

Owusu, T. (1997). Residential patterns and housing choices of Ghanaian immigrants in Toronto, Canada. Housing Studies, 14(1), 77-97.

Owusu, T. Y. (1996). The adaptation of black African immigrants in Canada: A case study of residential behaviour and ethnic community formation among Ghanaians in Toronto. Unpublished PhD Dissertation, University of Toronto, Toronto.

Ozuekren, A. S. (1992). Turkish immigrant housing in Sweden: An evaluation of housing conditions in a Stockholm suburb (Research Report ). Gavle: The National Swedish Institute for Building Research.

Pearson, E., & Bobb-Inniss, C. (1991). Access to permanent housing for new Canadians (Community Consultation Report ). Toronto: Whyy Mee Family Counselling Foundation.

Pfeifer, M. (1999). Community, adaptation and the Vietnamese in Toronto. Unpublished PhD Dissertation, University of Toronto, Toronto.

Prairie Research Associates. (1991). The relationship between newcomer tenants and their landlords (Manitoba Interfaith Immigation Council Report 6585/W31). Winnipeg, Manitoba: Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation.

Ray, B. (1998) A Comparative Study of Immigrant Housing, Neighbourhoods and Social Networks in Toronto and Montréal. Ottawa: Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation.

Ratner, M. S. (1996). Many routes to homeownership: A four-site ethnographic study of minority and immigrant experiences. Housing Policy Debate, 7(1), 103-145.

Ray, B. (1994). Immigrant settlement and housing in metropolitan Toronto. The Canadian Geographer, 38(3), 262-265.

Ray, B. K., & Moore, E. (1991). Access to homeownership among immigrant groups in Canada. Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology, 28(1), 1-28.

Scarborough Housing Education for Newcomers. (1992). Housing and new immigrant communities: A consultative forum (Ministry of Citizenship/Housing Report ). Scarborough, Ontario: Ministry of Citizenship, Ontario Anti-Racism Secretariat, Ministry of Housing, Housing Advocacy Branch.

Skaburskis, A. (1996). Race and tenure in Toronto. Urban Studies, 33 (2): 223-252.

Smart, A., & Smart, J. (1996). Monster homes: Hong Kong immigration to Canada, urban conflicts and contested representations of space. In J. Caulfield & L. Peake (Eds.), City lives and city forms: Critical research and Canadian urbanism (pp. 33-46). Toronto: University of Toronto Press.

Teixeira, C. (1993). The Role of “Ethnic” Sources of Information in the Relocation Decision-Making Process: A Case Study of the Portuguese in Mississauga. Unpublished PhD Dissertation, York University, Toronto.

Teixeira, C. and R. A. Murdie (1997) “The role of ethnic real estate agents in the residential relocation process: A case study of Portuguese homebuyers in suburban Toronto”, Urban Geography 18 (6): 497-520.

Weier, L. (1986). Whose house is home. Canadian Heritage, 3, 29-35.

Wilson, A. M. (1992). Housing needs and general well-being of immigrants and refugees in Calgary (CMHC Final Report ). Calgary, Alberta: The Calgary Catholic Immigration Society.

Wilson, C. A. (1994). A new lease on life: Landlords, tenants and immigrants in Ireland and Canada. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press.

Zine, J. (2003). Living on the Ragged Edges: Absolute and Hidden Homelessness among Latin Americans and Muslims in West Central Toronto. Toronto: Informal Housing Network Project.


b) Non-Canadian

Abramsson, M. Borgegård, L.-E. and U. Fransson (2002). Housing careers: Immigrants in local Swedish housing markets. Housing Studies, 17 (3): 445-464.

Biterman, D. (1993). Immigrant housing careers. Stockholm: The Swedish Council for Building Research.

Bolt, G. and R. van Kempen (2002). Moving up or moving down? Housing careers of Turks and Moroccans in Utrecht, the Netherlands. Housing Studies, 17 (3): 401-422.

Bowes. A.M., Dar, N.S. and D.F. Sim (2003). Differentiation in housing careers: The case of Pakistanis in the UK. Housing Studies, 17 (3): 381-399.

Bureau of Immigration and Population Research. (1994). Immigrant housing in Australia: An annotated bibliography. Canberra, Australia: Australian Government Publishing Service.

Colburn, A. (1998). Immigration and housing. Housing Economics, 46(7), 11-14.

Cole, I and Robinson, D. (2003). Somali Housing Experiences in England. Sheffield, England: Centre for Regional Economic and Social Research, Sheffield Hallam University.

Emrath, P. (1994). Immigration and housing demand. Housing Economics, March.

Faist, T., & Haubermann, H. (1996). Immigration, social citizenship and housing in Germany. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 20(1), 83-98.

Glavac, M. S., & Waldorf, B. (1998). Segregation and residential mobility of Vietnamese immigrants in Brisbane, Australia. The Professonal Geographer, 50(3), 503-27.

Harrison, M. (2003). Housing and Black and MInority Ethnic Communities: Review of the Evidence Base. London: Office of the Deputy Prime Minister.

Junankar, P. N., Pope, D., Kapuscinski, C., Ma, G., & Mudd, W. (1993). Recent immigrants and housing. Canberra: Australian Government Publishing Service.

Kemeny, J. (1985). Immigrant housing conditions in urban Sweden (Bulletin M85:20). Gavle: The National Swedish Institute for Building Research.

Kemeny, J. (1987). Immigrant housing conditions in Sweden: An analysis of unpublished 1980 census data (Research report SB:5). Gavle: The National Swedish Institute for Building Research.

Krivo, L. J. (1995). Immigrant characteristics and Hispanic-Anglo housing inequality. Demography, 32(November), 599-615.

Lee, S. W., & Myers, D. (1996). Immigration cohorts and residential overcrowding in Southern California. Demography, 33(February), 51-65.

Magnusson, L. and A. S. Özuekren (2002). The housing careers of Turkish households in middle-sized Swedish municipalities. Housing Studies, 17 (3): 465-486.

Murdie, R.A. and L.-E. Borgegård (1998). Immigration, spatial segregation and housing segmentation of immigrants in metropolitan Stockholm, 1960-1995. Urban Studies, 35 (10): 1869-1888.

Musterd, S. and R. Deurloo (2002). Unstable immigrant concentrations in Amsterdam: Spatial segregation and integration of newcomers. Housing Studies, 17 (3): 487-503.

Musterd, S. (1995). Immigration-mismatches in labour, housing and space: The effects of immigration of several nationalities with regard to the Netherlands. Applied Geography, 15(3), 279-296.

Myers, D., & Lee, S. W. (1998). Immigrant trajectories into homeownership: A temporal analysis of residential assimilation. International Migration Review, 32(3), 593-625.

Lewin-Epstein, N., Elmelech, Y., & Semyonov, M. (1997). Ethnic inequality in home ownership and the value of housing: The case of immigrants in Israel. Social Forces, 75(4), 1439-1462.

Lipshitz, G. (1997). Immigrants from the former Soviet Union in the Israeli housing market: Spatial aspects of supply and demand. Urban Studies, 34(3), 471-488.

Ozuekren, A. S. (2003). Ethnic concentration at the neighbourhod block level: Turks in a greater Stockholm suburb (1989-1999). Housing, Theory and Society, 20 (4): 172-182.

Ozuekren, A. S. (1992). Turkish immigrant housing in Sweden: An evaluation of housing conditions in a Stockholm suburb (Research Report ). Gavle: The National Swedish Institute for Building Research.

Özuekren, S. and R. van Kempen (2002) Housing careers of minority groups: experiences, explanations and prospects, Housing Studies 17 (3): 365-379.

Özuekren, S. and R. van Kempen (1997). Turks in European cities: Housing and urban segregation. Utrecht: European Research Centre on Migration and Ethnic Relations.

Peach, C. (1998). South Asian and Caribbean ethnic minority housing choice in Britain. Urban Studies, 35 (10): 1657-1680.

Ponizovsky, A., & Perl, E. (1997). Does supported housing protect recent immigrants from psychological distress. International Journal of Social Psychiatry, 43(2), 79-86.

Prybolsky, R. P. (1997). Housing the immigration wave. Mortgage Banking, 58(1), 14-22.

Ratner, M. S. (1996). Many routes to homeownership: A four-site ethnographic study of minority and immigrant experiences. Housing Policy Debate, 7(1), 103-145.

Tomlins, R., Johnson, M.R.D. and D. Owen (2002). The resource of ethnicity in the housing careers and preferences of the Vietnamese communities in London. Housing Studies, 17 (3): 505-519.

Tonkin, S., Williams, L. S., & Ackland, R. (1993). The relationship between visa category and the demand for housing: Results from the longitudinal survey of immigrants to Australia (LSIA) pilot. Canberra: Australian Government Publishing Service.

Tran, T. V. (1991). Family living arrangement and social adjustment among three ethnic groups of elderly Indochinese refugees. International Journal of Aging and Human Development, 32(2), 91-102.

White, M. J., Biddlecom, A. E., & Guo, S. (1993). Immigration, naturalization and residential assimilation among Asian Americans in 1980. Social Forces, 72(1), 93-118.


Housing-related Discrimination in Canada: Selected Bibliography

Anderson, K. J. (1987). The idea of Chinatown: The power of place and institutional practice in the making of a racial category. Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 77(4), 580-598.

Anderson, K. J. (1988). Cultural hegemony and the race-definition process in Chinatown, Vancouver: 1880-1980. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 6, 127-149.

Bourne, L. S. (1996). Social polarization and spatial segregation: Changing income inequalities in Canadian cities. In R. J. Davies (Ed.), Contemporary city structuring: International geographical insights (pp. 134-147). South Africa: Society of South African Geographers.

Boyd, M. (1994). Canada's refugee flows: Gender inequality. Canadian Social Trends (Spring 1994), 7-10.

Canadian Council on Social Development. (1979). Racial discrimination in housing (Discussion Paper 0 88810 306 9). Ottawa: Canadian Council on Social Development.

Chandra, K. V. (1973). Racial discrimination in Canada: Asian minorities. San Francisco: R and E Research Associates.

Commission on Systemic Racism in the Ontario Criminal Justice System. (1993). Discussion Document (Public Forums Discussion Document ). Toronto: Government of Ontario.

Commitee for Equal Access to Apartments. (1987). Income, employment and affordability screening and discrimination because of receipt of public assistance (Submission to the Ontario Human Rights Commission ). Toronto: Committee for Equal Access to Apartments.

Congress, C. L. (1960). Documents on discrimination in Canadian housing (MG28). Ottawa: National Archives of Canada.

Creese, G., & Peterson, L. (1996). Making the news, racializing Chinese Canadians. Studies in Political Economy, 51, 117-146.

Fong, E. (1996). A comparative perspective on racial residential segregation: American and Canadian experiences. The Sociological Quarterly, 37(2), 199-226.

Garon, M. (1988). Une experience de testing de la discrimination raciale dans le logement a Montreal. Montreal: Commission des droits de la personne du Quebec.

Henry, F. (1969). The measurement of perceived discrimination: A Canadian case study. Race, 10(4), 449- 461.

Henry, F. (1989). Housing and racial discrimination in Canada: A preliminary assessment of current initiatives and information. Toronto: Policy and Research, Multiculturalism and Citizenship.

Henry, F. (1994). The Carribbean diaspora in Toronto: Learning to live with racism. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.

Henry, F. (1995). The colour of democracy: Racism in Canadian society. Toronto: Harcourt Brace Canada.

Kitchener-Waterloo, R. R. C. (1991). Racial discrimination and rental accommodation in Kitchener-Waterloo (Study Summary ). Kitchener Waterloo: Race Relations Committee Kitchener-Waterloo.

Manitoba Labour Committee for Human Rights. (1960). Racial discrimination in housing in Winnipeg: Research project in National Committee on Human Rights (MG28). Ottawa: National Archives of Canada.

Municipality of Metropolitan Toronto. (1993). Towards a metropolitan anti-racism policy and implementation strategy (Discussion paper ). Toronto: Municipality of Metropolitan Toronto, Chief Administrative Officer's Department.

Murdie, R. A. (1995). Economic restructuring and social polarization in Toronto. In J. O. Loughlin & J. Friedrichs (Eds.), Social polarization in post-Industrial metropolises. Berlin and New York: Degruyter.

Ontario Human Rights Commission. (1965). Perception of discrimination among Negroes and Japanese Canadians in Hamilton. Toronto: Ontario Human Rights Commission.

Ornstein, M. (1996). Ethno-racial inequality in metropolitan Toronto: Analysis of the 1991 Census (Municipality of Metropolitan Toronto Report ). Toronto: The Municipality of Metropolitan Toronto, Access and Equity Centre.

Palmer, D. L. (1994). Anatomy of an attitude: Origins of the attitude toward the level of immigration to Canada : Citizenship and Immigration Canada.

Satzevich, V. (1989). Racism and Canadian immigration policy: The government's view of Caribbean migration, 1962-1966. Canadian Ethnic Studies, 21(1).

Simms, G. P. (1993). Racism as a barrier to Canadian citizenship. In W. Kaplan (Ed.), Belonging: The meaning and future of Canadian citizenship. Kingston and Montreal: McGill-Queen's Press.

Smart, J. (1994). Business immigration in Canada: Deception and exploitation. In R. Skeldon (Ed.), The reluctant exiles (pp. 98-119). Armonk, New York: M.E. Sharpe.

Toronto and District Labour Committee for Human Rights. (1957). Report of study on racial discrimination in the rental policy of apartment houses in Toronto. Ottawa: National Archives of Canada.

 
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