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Essay / The transition between Chinatown and Toronto - 3110
Chinatown is one of Toronto's largest ethnic enclaves. It started small and has grown over the past decade. I will analyze how much Toronto's Chinatown has changed based on demographic, social, cultural and economic aspects. Let us first examine what the term ethnic enclave means; this means that the community or group members “reclaim” the memory and tradition of their past. However, the big question is whether each ethnic enclave includes only one ethnicity. It is true that the name of the place indicates the level of ethnic concentration of its population: “Chinatown”, “Little Italy” and “Little Havana”. There are two different perspectives regarding the term ethnic enclaves: singularity and multiplicity. . The term has been split into two by confusion created by misinterpretation of the scientific definition. Sanders and Nee asserted that these districts contain "immigrant groups that concentrate in a distinct spatial location and organize diverse businesses serving their own ethnic market and/or the general population" (Luk and Phan, 2006, 18). This was taken directly from Portes' publication. This denotation leads people to conduct further research into the perspective of multiplicity. There are more and more places that have only one ethnic group. However, there is evidence of multicultural and multi-ethnic sites. For example, the Korean city of Los Angeles is only 20% Korean and 66% Latino. In such a globalized world, it is not so difficult to find many more examples like this. We will now focus more on the duration of ethnic succession. Ethnic succession has a wide range of interpretations: from the "right" wing, the "left" wing, ...... middle of article...... YW. (1985). Ethnic resources and business enterprise: A study of Chinese businesses in Toronto. Human Organization, 44(2), 142-154.Lin, J. (1998). Rebuilding Chinatown: ethnic enclave, global change. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press. Keil, R. and Ali, H. (2006). Multiculturalism, racism and infectious diseases in the global city: the experience of the 2003 SARS epidemic in Toronto. TOPIA: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies, (16), 23-49. Hiebert, D. (1995). The social geography of Toronto in 1931: a study of residential differentiation and social structure. Journal of Historical Geography, 21(1), 55-74. Statistics Canada. 2011. 2011 Census Profile File/Census Tract Profile. HUNTING. Version updated in 2011. Toronto. http://dc1.chass.utoronto.ca.myaccess.library.utoronto.ca/cgi-bin/census/2011/retrieveCensus.cgi (accessed April 2, 2005).