Carlos Teixeira

THE ROLE OF ETHNIC REAL ESTATE AGENTS IN THE RESIDENTIAL RELOCATION PROCESS: A CASE STUDY OF PORTUGUESE HOMEBUYERS IN SUBURBAN TORONTO

This paper examines the search behavior of a sample of Portuguese and Canadian-born homebuyers in suburban Toronto, Canada. Attention is focused on the extent to which Portuguese homebuyers rely upon real estate agents from the same ethnic background and how this source can influence the homebuyers housing search and ultimate choice of a residence. Data were obtained from a questionnaire survey that was administered to a sample of 110 Portuguese and 90 Canadian-born recent homebuyers in the city of Mississauga, a western suburb of Toronto. All were nonresidents of Mississauga at the time of purchasing the house. The evidence indicates that Portuguese homebuyers differ significantly from the Canadian-born in their housing search by relying more extensively on ethnic sources of information, particularly real estate agents from the same ethnic background. However, almost equal numbers of Portuguese purchased houses in Portuguese and non-Portuguese neighborhoods in Mississauga. In this respect, the evidence ...

If Quebec Goes . . . The ‘Exodus' Impact?

In this paper, we explore migration aspects of the 1995 Quebec Sovereignty Referendum with data from a survey administered to non-francophones in Montreal two weeks prior to the Referendum. While the Quebec sovereignty issue has been around for some time and earlier exodus from the province, particularly among anglophones, is largely regarded as “forced” in some way, this study neither confirms the 1995 Sovereignty Referendum as a paramount factor in explaining outmigration from Quebec nor points to a real reluctance to leave Montreal. The decision to move is influenced by the interplay of a multitude of factors. The political influence is only an added factor to longstanding economic decline and cultural clash. Moreover, if there is any impulsion, the degree varies among different cultural and socioeconomic groups.

Book Review: Inside Ethnic Families: Three Generations of Portuguese-CanadiansInside Ethnic Families: Three Generations of Portuguese-Canadians. By NoivoEdite. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press. 1997. Pp. 164.

It is difficult to tell because there are no statistics. The Immigration and Naturalizaton Service collects data on when and how many Lithuanians entered the United States. The Census Bureau has figures on where they settled and when. They could have been reproduced here or incorporated into the detailed introductory essays to discuss the communities that erected parishes. Lithuanian Religious Life in Americais an excellent addition to libraries of religion, especially Catholicism, and ethnicity. Specialists in Lithuanian Americans may want the whole set; libraries in Pennsylvania may want at least volume 2. Together, the three volumes are a handy compendium of everything known about Lithuanian parishes across the United States, with tables of contents and indices to facilitate consultation and sturdily bound to sustain regular use.

Book Review: Sociologia das MigraçõesSociologia das Migrações. By Rocha-TrindadeMaria BeatrizLisboa: Universidade Aberta, 1995. Pp.410.

With regard to responsibility, one can say that all the governments involved shared a degree of responsibility, but the main culprit was Russia, whose massacres of Muslims were planned in advance and carried out with great efficacy. For instance, in the 1850s and 1860s the Russian government gave 500 scholarships to Bulgarian students; most of these students took part in the attacks on the Muslim villages in 1876 which culminated in the war of 1877/78. England and France, although well aware of the deeds ofthe Russians and Balkan states, objected to and criticized profimna the atroCities committed. Rather than to uphold the principlesofhumanityand securitytheypreached as universal values, their main purpose was to weaken the Ottoman Empire so that at the time of its disintegration they would securefor themselves the best of the sultarislands. The Ottoman government, which had been destabilized by the revolution of the Young Turks in 1908, was dragged into World War I on the side ofGermany by a handful ofleaders, It was too disorganized and weak to function eIfectiveIy and merely reacted to events before it finallysuccumbed to finaldisintegrationin 1918. The events from 1989 to 1992 in Azerbaijan, where a shaky ceasefire is in efrect, and especially thosefrom 1992 to 1995 in Bosnia indicated that ethnic cleansing, unfortunately had become an endemic part of nationalism and nation rormation and that nations seem to have learned nothing from the past. McCarthys book is a major scholarlyachievement in a little-explored areaand an act ofintellectualcourageand honesty.