In the past, working-age immigrant families in Canada's large urban centres had higher home-ownership rates than the Canadian-born. Over the past 20 years, however, this advantage has reversed, due jointly to a drop in immigrant rates and a rise in the popularity of home-ownership among the...

Le present article resume les conclusions de le document de recherche intitulee Les immigrants achetent-ils pour s'integrer? : Le role du regroupement ethnique dans la propension a devenir proprietaire chez douze groupes d'immigrants a Toronto, 1996 a 2001. La theorie de l'assimilation spatiale...

De nombreux chercheurs considerent l'accession des immigrants a la propriete comme signifiant leur assimilation au secteur residentiel general, meme si l'etude du caractere ethnique des quartiers ou les immigrants achetent effectivement des maisons confirme rarement cette affirmation. Dans le...