Offsetting Immigration and Domestic Migration in Gateway Cities

Download or read book Offsetting Immigration and Domestic Migration in Gateway Cities written by David Ley and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper examines the off-setting streams of immigrants into gateway cities and the departure of domestic migrants. This regularity was noted in gateway cities in the United States, notably New York, Los Angeles and others, and interpretation has sometimes intimated cultural avoidance, leading to suggestions of 'demographic balkanisation' and a new population geography of the nation. Labour market adjustments have, however, been the most common source of explanation. This paper extends the discussion to Toronto and Sydney, the principal gateway cities in Canada and Australia. The same off-setting migration flows are shown to exist. In interpretation, however, more limited roles for labour market issues and cultural avoidance are suggested. Instead attention is directed to the housing markets of gateway cities, and in particular the constraints (and opportunities) of high rents and prices in prompting internal out-migration. Immigrants in turn accept a higher burden of costs and increased crowding to join existing ethno-cultural communities. Finally, the paper refocusses the cultural avoidance thesis into a multicultural framework of (quasi) voluntary congregation.