This dissertation offers a spatio-temporal analysis of housing starts in the GTA. Informative and revealing results were obtained when housing units were disaggregated by structural type (i.e., detached, semi-detached, apartments, and others [link/row] housing). This dissertatio…
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The process of migration has affected the Ethiopian Orthodox church in Toronto in both its music and musical practice as well as in the content and proceedings of its ritual. This has resulted in a transformation of cultural identity amongst the Ethiopian Orthodox community in T…
The purpose of this study was twofold: to explore the acculturative experiences of Greeks in Toronto, Canada, and also to learn more about the nature of and assessment of “acculturative stress”, a construct used in the field of cross-cultural psychology to assess the adjustment …
For the first time in recent history, Somali society has experienced the plight of a mass exodus. Millions have been displaced by civil war and have sought refuge in places thousands of miles away from their homelands. There are tens of thousands of Somali refugees in Canada; th…
This is a qualitative study examining complex micro and macro social processes of negotiating drastic shifts in identity, cohesion, and belonging in the context of refugee displacement. A community-based small sample of 18 self-identified research participants is selected from a…
The purpose for this doctoral project is to address the question: How do we establish biblical principles of community in the youth ministry of a program-based design church? The question came about within the context of the Youth Department of the Indonesian Christian Church Ca…
This dissertation examines intra-immigrant group similarities and differences in migration and settlement experiences, taking two south Asian subgroups in Toronto---Indian Bengalis and Bangladeshis---as a case study. The research contributes theoretically and empirically to thre…
My thesis is about the governance of trees through what seem to be natural configurations of order, and about how this form of tree governance is utilized to legitimize the governance of certain humans. By interpreting a series of in-depth interviews and participatory observatio…
This dissertation is based on 24 months of ethnographic research in Lahore and Karachi, Pakistan, and Toronto, Canada between 2001 and 2007, with a sustained year and half of ethnographic fieldwork in Toronto between 2002 and 2003. In this work, I use ethnographic methods to exa…
This study explores racial, ethnic and cultural identity and the construction of community boundaries in relation to the concept of authenticity. The purpose of this study is to examine the problem of authenticity, and how it serves as the basis of inclusion or exclusion within …
This study examines traditional African indigenous knowledges and educational practices for the purposes of determining their relevance to and applicability in Black-focused schools in Toronto, Ontario. Literature-based, the study examines the writings of Afrocentrists---Cheikh …
This research investigates the identity and culture of Ghanaians in Toronto between 1960s and 2000—a visible minority group in Canada whose experiences are often categorized within other identities and whose history have engendered little investigations. The accounts of thirty-o…
The purpose of this study was to better understand how Jewish school leaders in Toronto understand non-Orthodox Jewish day school financial sustainability. A review of literature included: (a) a multidisciplinary understanding of “sustainability”, (b) a history of Jewish educati…
It is estimated that 3000 Mauritian immigrants live in the Canadian province of Ontario, yet despite this relatively small number they are culturally distinct in the city of Toronto. Using ethnographic methods, this dissertation examines immigrants’ changing identities, engageme…
Through interviews with twenty self-described leavetakers from a wide range of Orthodox Jewish lifestyles in Toronto, Canada, this dissertation argues that leavetaking from normative Orthodox Judaism does not mean exiting Judaism or even stopping observance completely. Study dat…
Bangladeshi Bengali migration to Canada is a response to globalization processes, and a strategy to face the post-independent social, political and economic insecurities in the homeland. Canadian immigration policy and the Multicultural Act that were adjusted to meet labour dema…
This dissertation is the first to examine the various Muslim communities of Toronto. Toronto has a Muslim population of some 200,000 of the over 500,000 Muslims in Canada. This dissertation provides a description of many of the Muslim organizations in Toronto. The description an…