Asian migrants and residential location in Canada

Abstract

As in other 'advanced' market societies, Canadian communities manifest an important social change. Relatively small but rapidly increasing groups, perceived and labelled as racial minorities, constitute an important part of a new social and geographical reality. This paper describes the urban and regional contexts in Canada for the settlement of Asian migrants who now dominate numerically amongst all migrants. They are chiefly concentrated in seven metropolitan centres. The residential location of Asian born peoples in Vancouver and Toronto, the principal centres, is quite different but shows evidence of relative concentration; locally, however, large migrant majorities are rare.