Residential Experiences and the Culture of Suburbanization: A Case Study of Portuguese Homebuyers in Mississauga
Residential Experiences and the Culture of Suburbanization: A Case Study of Portuguese Homebuyers in Mississauga
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10.1080/02673030701387622
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发表时间：
2007-07
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3.2
通讯作者：
Carlos Teixeira
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作者：
Carlos Teixeira
本文通过对多伦多郊区密西索加的第一代葡萄牙购房者的调查，考察了移民到加拿大的住房体验。调查的重点是导致他们决定住在郊区的推/拉因素，他们的找房策略，以及他们在密西索加和多伦多市中心葡萄牙移民定居初期地区使用服务的情况。这项研究使用了1990年对110名葡萄牙购房者进行的问卷调查的数据，当时他们刚搬到密西索加郊区不久；其中一名受访者在2003年再次接受了采访。有证据表明，这些移民之所以“被迫”搬迁到密西索加，是因为他们想住在一个好社区的独栋住宅里。他们的住房搜索广泛依赖于种族信息来源，特别是葡萄牙房地产经纪人。总的来说，这群移民对他们的搬迁表示满意。密西索加的葡萄牙人社区的特点是一种自愿隔离的形式，这似乎部分是因为他们依赖自己的民族社区获取信息，参加非葡萄牙人活动的语言障碍，以及文化上偏爱生活在同一种族背景的人附近。这种重新隔离进程的一个后果是，葡萄牙人在郊区重建了葡萄牙人的“家园”，限制了他们与也在密西索加郊区定居的其他族裔社区成员的社会联系。
This paper examines the housing experiences of immigrants to Canada through a survey of first-generation Portuguese homebuyers in Mississauga, a suburb of Toronto. The survey focused on the push/pull factors leading to their decision to live in the suburbs, their housing search strategies, and their use of services in Mississauga and in the initial area of Portuguese immigrant settlement in downtown Toronto. This study uses data from a questionnaire administered to 110 Portuguese homebuyers in 1990, shortly after their first move to suburban Mississauga; a sample of those respondents were re-interviewed in 2003. The evidence indicates that these immigrants were ‘pulled’ into relocating to Mississauga because of their desire to live in a single-family dwelling in a good neighbourhood. Their housing search relied extensively on ethnic sources of information, particularly Portuguese real estate agents. In general, this group of immigrants expressed satisfaction with their move. The Portuguese community in Mississauga is characterized by a form of voluntary segregation, which seems to be partly a result of their reliance on their own ethnic community for information, language barriers to participating in non-Portuguese activities, and a cultural preference for living near people of the same ethnic background. One consequence of this re-segregation process, by which Portuguese people recreate a Portuguese ‘homeland’ in the suburbs, has been the limitation of their social contacts with members of other ethnic communities that have also settled in suburban Mississauga.