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The situation in a number of ghettos in the United States is for many Europeans a spectre for the problem quarters in their own cities. However, American society cannot simply be compared with the European societies, and that is the reason why we have attempted in this study to broaden the framework of comparison with seven West European metropolitan areas. In this chapter Canada will be presented as a country that figuratively can bridge the (extreme) practices in the United States and the more moderate, but at the same time highly varied situation in Western Europe. Similarities exist between Canada and the United States in the fields of immigration history, liberal interpretation of the welfare state and the relatively young age of their cities. However, Canada is less extreme in terms of racial tensions and the formation of ghettos than the United States. The metropolitan area of Toronto was chosen because the highest percentage of immigrants of the Canadian metropolitan areas live in that area.
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Musterd, S., Ostendorf, W., Breebaart, M. (1998). Canada: Toronto. In: Multi-Ethnic Metropolis: Patterns and Policies. The GeoJournal Library, vol 43. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-2365-7_8
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