Residential Patterns of New Immigrants and Linguistic Integration

Bibliographic Data

ID8422828
AuthorsCharles Montgomery (0000-0002-6908-5992, Université de Montréal, corresponding author), Catherine Montgomery (0000-0001-6717-1099), Jean Renaud (Université de Montréal, corresponding author)
Year1994
Volume38
Issue4
Pages331-342
Publication date1994-12-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueCanadian Geographies / Géographies canadiennes (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0008-3658 • E-ISSN: 1541-0064
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1541-0064.1994.tb01917.x
OpenAlexW2053988970
LanguageEN
Citations received2

The present study looks at the residential patterns of new immigrants in Montreal and their impact on subsequent language use in the workplace and educational programs. We first explore the themes of language and territory, citing evidence for the neighbourhood of residence as being a site of language contact organized linguistically around models corresponding to the majority language spoken by its population. Secondly, we explore a sample of 1000 new immigrants, situating them in francophone, anglophone, allophone, and heterogeneous neighbourhoods. Three aspects of their residential establishment are examined: their distribution within the neighbourhoods of Montreal, the factors determining the choice of one or another of the four types of linguistic milieux, and the influence of these milieux on subsequent language use. These latter two aspects use Event History Analysis, a statistical model permitting the longitudinal analysis of dated data

French · Geography · Immigration · Linguistics · Neighbourhood (mathematics) · Population · Residence · Sample (material) · Sociology · Canadian Identity and History · Demography · Linguistic and Sociocultural Studies · Multilingual Education and Policy