Access to school daycare services: Class, family, ethnicity and space in Montreal's old and new inner city

Rose, Damaris; Chicoine, Nathalie

doi:10.1016/0016-7185(91)90007-d

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“…Ley (, p. 210) refers to the gentrified neighbourhood as ‘oppositional’ space countering ‘hierarchical lines of authority’. This view comes close to the feminist literature that describes the suburb as an oppressive space for women and proclaims the city to be a woman's place (Wekerle ; Rose & Chicoine ; Wilson ). Several studies indicate that females have better employment chances in the city and that the city offers more facilities to support family life (Caulfield ; Jarvis ; Karsten ; De Meester ).…”

Section: Gentrification and Consumptionsupporting

confidence: 60%

From Yuppies to Yupps: Family Gentrifiers Consuming Spaces and Re‐inventing Cities

Karsten¹

2014

Tijd voor Econ & Soc Geog

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This is a study of family consumption in an upgraded Amsterdam neighbourhood. It aims to unravel the relationship between the increase of middle-class families and the establishing of new family-related consumption spaces, both commercial and public. Based on observations and interviews in Amsterdam, we identify an increase in family and child directed consumption spaces. They reflect parental wishes to continue their former childless lifestyle, the need to combine work and care, and the wish to educate children in a wide range of skills. The more intensive consumption of parks and sidewalks reveals new practices of public parenting in urban contexts. It is argued that the transformation from childless yuppie to young urban professional parent (yupp) not only goes along with new consumption cultures but also with the production of a new city. This re-invented city has potentials for age and gender equality, however unequal class relations appear to continue.

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Section: Gentrification and Consumptionsupporting

confidence: 60%

From Yuppies to Yupps: Family Gentrifiers Consuming Spaces and Re‐inventing Cities

Karsten¹

2014

Tijd voor Econ & Soc Geog

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“…Another factor related to employment and mobility is the accessibility of community and social services like childcare, public libraries, and community centers. In their study of two Montreal neighborhoods, Rose and Chicoine (1991) found that immigrant women in particular faced scheduling constraints that restricted their access to formal childcare. Access to childcare must be considered in terms of cost, location, and hours of operation as well as availability of spaces.…”

Section: Emotional Geographies and Settlementmentioning

confidence: 98%

The Emotional City: Refugee Settlement and Neoliberal Urbanism in Calgary

Wood

McGrath

Young

2011

Int. Migration & Integration

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Based on a case study in Calgary, we frame refugee (re)settlement through literature in emotional geography and argue that the logistics of settlements are emotional as well as pragmatic. Social agencies play a crucial role in the settlement of refugees, especially the government-sponsored class. Personal connections with a settlement worker make the negotiation of the city emotional from the outset. In addition, accessible public spaces and institutions help create positive emotional attachments. Other aspects, such as limited mobility and dispersed settlement, construct obstacles and intensify a sense of isolation. Neoliberal urban policy has made the settlement process in Canada more difficult.

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“…Thus there was inadequate support for the expansion of the non‐profit centres to match demand. This was reflected in the uneven access to child care Rose and Chicoine found in their 1991 study of access to school child care services in Montreal inner city neighbourhoods. It was also reflected in the growth of a substantial commercial sector.…”

Section: Welfare Redesign and Rescaling: Child Care In Three Canadianmentioning

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Of scalar hierarchies and welfare redesign: child care in three Canadian cities

Mahon

2006

Trans Inst British Geog

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Scalar theory has recently come under attack for its emphasis on hierarchy. Yet the notion of scalar hierarchies cannot be abandoned if we want to understand actually‐existing social relations and the governance structures in which they are enmeshed. The conception of hierarchy employed by political economists is also more complex than that suggested by the ‘Russian dolls’ metaphor. A multiplicity of diversely structured, overlapping interscalar hierarchies operate in and across diverse policy fields. While these arrangements clearly influence what happens at the local scale, sufficient room often exists for local actors to modify the effects. The complexity of scalar hierarchies is illustrated through an analysis of the governance of child care provision in Canada. Child care arrangements are becoming integral to social reproduction in post‐industrial economies, where women form an increasingly important part of the labour force. This paper focuses on child care in three of Canada's largest cities, each of which is subject to a distinct provincial regime through which federal contributions are filtered. Yet, as we shall see, these cities are more than ‘puppets on a string.’

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Access to school daycare services: Class, family, ethnicity and space in Montreal's old and new inner city

Cited by 23 publications

References 13 publications

From Yuppies to Yupps: Family Gentrifiers Consuming Spaces and Re‐inventing Cities

From Yuppies to Yupps: Family Gentrifiers Consuming Spaces and Re‐inventing Cities

The Emotional City: Refugee Settlement and Neoliberal Urbanism in Calgary

Of scalar hierarchies and welfare redesign: child care in three Canadian cities

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