The world in a city / edited by Paul Anisef and Michael Lanphier.

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Toronto does not provide a level 'playing field' for its newly arrived inhabitants, and, in failing to recognize the particular needs of new communities, fails to ensure a growth that would be of immense benefit to the city as a whole.

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This book is about Toronto--extremely multicultural, ethnic, and racial in composition at this century's beginning. In 1900, Toronto was as WASP as a city could be, with open prejudices. One hundred years later, 42 percent of its inhabitants were foreign born, and prejudice is no longer obvious. A central theme of these essays, most by social science academics in Ontario, is Toronto's struggles in carrying out a changing federal policy on which it has had little input. Studies of immigrant communities across Canada abound, all dealing with various issues and set on gendered, racial, or ethnic foundations. The value of these essays, whose editors readily admit they hope to influence federal, provincial, and metropolitan policies, lies in their focus on Toronto in the 1990s. The first two essays set a historical and demographic perspective; the next four are solidly researched works on housing, employment, education, and health among the extremely diverse peoples who live in the city; other chapters are policy studies focusing on how immigrants are included or excluded by political and social structures. On balance, all the essayists find exclusion the dominant pattern, which requires policy changes. As the only comprehensive study of immigration, race, and ethnicity in Toronto, this book should be in library collections. ^BSumming Up: Highly recommended. All libraries. M. J. Moore Appalachian State University