Transnational ties and intra-immigrant group settlement experiences: A case study of Indian Bengalis and Bangladeshis in Toronto

Impact of Remittance Behaviour on Immigrant Homeownership Trajectories: An Analysis of the Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants in Canada from 2001 to 2005

“…Other visible characteristics such as gender and ethnicity are also found to be associated with immigrant housing careers in Canada (Murdie 2002;Teixeira 2006). Immigrants' knowledge of the housing market has been demonstrated to have an impact on the kinds of neighbourhood where immigrants chose to reside (Hulchanski 1997;Ghosh 2007). Usually through existing networks immigrants from specific ethnicities tend to concentrate in particular neighbourhoods.…”

“…Usually through existing networks immigrants from specific ethnicities tend to concentrate in particular neighbourhoods. As result, ethnic clustering is a common feature in the case of immigrant housing careers (see Ghosh 2007). Such ethnic clustering provides social capital which has been found to be important in immigrants housing consumption behaviours especially for Impact of Remittance Behaviour on Immigrant Homeownership… selection of dwelling and neighbourhood types (D'Addario et al 2007).…”

“…In summary, the main empirical and theoretical explanations for immigrant housing experience and housing careers as a whole in Canada, and indeed North America, has centred on availability or provision of adequate housing units (Hackworth and Moriah 2006;Dalton 2009), the nature of housing markets (Moore and Skaburskis 2004;Edmonston 2004;Teixeira 2009;Simone and Newbold 2014), and immigrants socioeconomic background at arrival (Murdie 2002;Haan 2005;Teixeira 2006;Ghosh 2007). These explanations suggest that immigrants are circumscribed within existing socio-economic structures which are responsible for defining their housing consumption behaviours.…”

“…Interest in such studies stems from the understanding that immigrants do not become completely disconnected from their places of origin after the process of migration has been undertaken. Existing studies suggest that there are continuous flows of migrants and capital conversion (Kelly and Lusis 2006) and social networks are found to be enduring and intense (Ley 2004;Ghosh 2007;Li and Teixeira 2007;Christou and King 2010). The growing involvement of immigrants in cross-border activities have motivated scholars to draw on approaches that recognise the place of agency in integration in destination countries.…”

“…According to Ghosh (2007), multiculturalism (Canada's official immigrant integration framework) does not only promote immigrant location selection for settlement, it also furthers transnational connections between immigrants and their areas of origin. In the Canadian context, transnational activities are likely to increase with rising immigrant numbers due to a number of factors including improvement in communication and particularly the adoption of immigration in-flows as a population growth policy (Ley and Hiebert 2001;Green and Green 2004).…”