Urban Aboriginal communities in Canada : complexities, challenges, opportunities

Hanselmann, Calvin. (Added Author). Dinsdale, Peter. (Added Author). White, Jerry Patrick, 1951- (Added Author).

Summary: "The majority of Canada's Aboriginal peoples live in urban areas, yet scholarly work on Aboriginal issues continues to focus on reserve-based communities. In contrast, this collection of papers provides a comprehensive portrait of the country's urban Aboriginal population--a population defined by both great promise and great challenges. Using data from the 2006 census, the authors draw on the urban catchment or service area, a custom unit of geography, to examine over three hundred non-reserve communities with significant numbers of Aboriginal residents. By doing so, they capture the urban Aboriginal dynamic in a way that existing data and analysis do not. Urban Aboriginal Communities in Canada provides a critical examination of the issues and challenges faced by urban Aboriginal people in such key areas as education, income, mobility, and language, and identifies the important policy and programming implications of this research."--pub. desc.

Record details

ISBN: 9781550772241
ISBN: 1550772244
Physical Description: print
xii, 296 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.
Publisher: Toronto, ON : Thompson Educational Pub., c2011.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references.

Formatted Contents Note:

Selected Urban Aboriginal Demography / Tricia McGuire-Adams -- Mapping Methodology / Tim Albert -- The Educational Profile of People Living in Aboriginal Friendship Centre Catchment Areas Across Canada / Amanda Parriag and Paul Chaulk -- The Economic Development Capacity of Urban Aboriginal Peoples / Nicholas Spence, Susan Wingert, and Jerry White -- Profile of Low-Income Risk among Aboriginal Peoples / Susan Wingert, Nicholas Spence, and Jerry White -- Aboriginal People and Community Well-Being Off-Reserve / Stewart Clatworthy and Evelyn Peters -- Aboriginal Youth At Risk: The Role of Education, Mobility, Housing, Employment, and Language as Protective Factors for Problem and Criminal Behaviours / Raymond R. Corrado and Irwin M. Cohen -- Aboriginal Mobility and Migration within Canada's Friendship Centre Areas: Patterns, Levels, and Implications Based on the 2006 Census / Mary Jane Norris and Stewart Clatworthy -- Aboriginal and Non-Aboriginal Labour-Market, Education, and Occupational Distinctions in Friendship Centre and Gap Communities Across Canada / Ben Brunnen -- Aboriginal Languages within Canada's Friendship Centre Areas: State, Diversity, Prospects, and Implications, 2006 Census / Mary Jane Norris.