ABSTRACT
Urban Ehtnic Encounters attempts to answer the two leading questions of how urban space structures the life of ethnic groups and how ethnic diversity helps to shape urban space. A multidisciplinary team of authors searches the various dimensions of the spatial organization of inter-ethnic relations in cities and countries around the globe. Unlike most ethnographies in which authors write about the 'other' in faraway places, the majority of the contributors have studied their own society.
The case studies are from four different continents. Material is presented from diverse locations such as the cities of Toronto, Philadelphia, Vienna, Beirut, Jakarta, Tehran, Osaka and Albuquerque, and the countries of Israel, Brazil and Taiwan, presents a unique opportunity for comparative analysis of ethnicity and spatial patterns. From this wealth of material important inter-cultural conclusions can be made about urban ethnic diversity.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |2 pages
PART I The macro-level analysis of urban ethnic encounters
chapter 2|19 pages
Residential segregation and neighbourhood socioeconomic inequality: Southeast Asians in Toronto
part |2 pages
PART II The meso-level analysis of urban ethnic encounters: The neighbourhoods of the cities
chapter 6|10 pages
Perception and use of space by ethnic Chinese in Jakarta
chapter 7|17 pages
Urban fear in Brazil: From the favelas to The Truman Show CARMEN S Í LV I A D E MORAES RIAL AND MIRIAM PILLAR GROSSI
chapter 9|18 pages
Transcultural home identity across the Pacific
part |2 pages
PART III The micro-level analysis of urban ethnic encounters