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1967-Present: Overview / Multi-Racial Canada / Refugee Crisis / Quebec and Immigration
Multi-Racial Canada
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The apparently rapid increase in non-White immigration to urban areas in the 1970s triggered a racial backlash against immigrants. Studies of the Caribbean diaspora in Toronto reveal the numerous problems that faced this immigrant community. Unlike other groups, such as Italian Canadians who chose to live in certain concentrated areas of the city, Caribbean immigrants tended to spread themselves throughout Greater Toronto. They often rented apartments.5 Frances Henry suggests the Caribbean newcomers were not a community as such, but, rather, numerous communities. Their leaders tended to speak for specific socio-economic classes within the immigrant group, particularly the middle class professionals. Often, working class and poorer immigrants had no representation in civic affairs,
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Toronto, 1990s. Vancouver, Montreal, and, in particular, Toronto have been the major recipients of non-White immigrants over the past 30 years. Chinese, Jamaicans, Trinidadians, and other non-White immigrants changed the complexion of these cities in this period. |
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