Preston
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 47634 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Preston |
| APELLIDO | Preston |
| FIRMA | PRESTON |
| AFILIACIONES | York University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4370-285X |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 55 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 450 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 55 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1980 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 12 |
Transforming settlement and integration services during a pandemic
Settlement services are key to Canada's success in welcoming and integrating immigrants. Offered mainly in person prior to COVID‐19 by non‐governmental agencies reliant on and regulated by government funders, services were forced online and delivered by staff working remotely. We document this transition between September 2020 and September 2021 in Ontario, Canada and the conditions that influenced it. Surveys completed by workers and managers at…
Regionalization and Recent Immigrants’ Access to Jobs
Entrepreneurial activities of Canadian Bangladeshi women in Toronto
Applying a family lens, the study illustrates how family resources and gender roles shape the entrepreneurship pathways of immigrant women. With its focus on the family, the study contributes to intersectional research about immigrant entrepreneurs that considers the effects of gender and social class, as well as, ethnicity. Drawing on the narratives of Bangladeshi women who migrated to Toronto as spouses of skilled male immigrants, the research …
Migration and Resilience in Urban Canada
Gender, Immigration and Commuting in Metropolitan Canada
Immigrant workers often commute by transit more than other workers. Although immigrants' reliance on transit is often attributed to the same factors as women's reliance on transit: low incomes, limited access to cars, and a tendency to work close to home, gender differences are discussed rarely in analyses of immigrant commuting. Using 2016 Census of Canada microdata, we examine the use of four commute modes: driving, transit, active commuting in…
Together in difference
Celebrating and launching this inspiring book with Professor Lesley Head at the School of Geography at the University of Melbourne was a multicultural event that circulated immense joy. There was a
Disability, wages, and commuting in New York
Placing the second generation
We examine the social mobility of the second generation in the Toronto metropolitan area by analyzing whether the adult children of immigrants live in more affluent and desirable neighbourhoods than the first generation. Using 2016 census microdata, we compare the social characteristics of census tracts where immigrants and the second and third‐plus (3 + ) generations concentrate. The index of dissimilarity indicates the degree of residential sep…
Migration
International migration, movements of people who leave one country to settle in another, has stimulated a voluminous and growing geographical literature that examines the volume and diversity of migration flows, their meanings for migrants and the societies where they settle, and representations of migration. Contemporary international migration is characterized by increasing spatial variegation and complexity that extend its historical foundatio…
Everyday Equalities
Who has long commutes to low-wage jobs? Gender, race, and access to work in the New York region
Geographies of home and work have changed as public investment has favored central and distant suburban locations and as income inequality has increased. These changes result in shifting geographies of advantage that (dis)benefit gender and racial/ethnic groups unevenly. We examine commuting differentials by gender and race/ethnicity based on combinations of wages and commute times using data for the New York region.We find that Black, Asian, and…
Revisiting Gender, Race, and Commuting in New York
In the 1990s, many women commuted shorter distances and less time than men, and research underscored the pernicious effects of racial and ethnic segregation and access to transportation on minority women's commuting. Since then, growing income inequality and the bifurcation of employment between well-paid and secure jobs and a growing number of insecure and poorly paid jobs have been accompanied by the concentration of jobs at central and suburba…
Working with diversity
Work is an important location for examining the heterogeneity of contemporary urban societies that are being transformed by migration, aging, and economic restructuring. At work locations, people from different ethnic and racial groups often encounter one another, regardless of whether they live in close proximity. Work is also a frequent site of discrimination, particularly for racial minorities. This study evaluates ethno-racial heterogeneity b…
Knowledge Mobilization/Transfer and Immigration Policy
Introduction Liberating Temporariness? Imagining Alternatives to Permanence as a Pathway for Social Inclusion
Planning in the multicultural city
Being CBC
Immigrants from Hong Kong are one of the largest recent cohorts of newcomers in Canada. We examine the processes through which the children of Hong Kong immigrants construct a sense of belonging in Canada, their only home. In focus group discussions, the participants express an unequivocal sense of Canadian citizenship and belonging. Yet their identities project an idealized Canadian body that wears "Canadian" clothing, plays "Canadian" sports, a…
Liberating Temporariness
Experiences of discrimination and discomfort
This article compares feelings of discomfort and experiences of discrimination attributed to racial and ethnic difference among visible minorities and two white groups: “Europeans” and “white charter” individuals. In conducting the analysis, attention is given to the role of location by examining how responses vary in three types of locations in Canada: large and diverse metropolitan areas, smaller “second‐tier” cities, and towns and rural areas.…
Strengthening Citizen Participation in Public Policy-Making
Citizen participation has a longstanding history in Canadian policy-making. Recently, strengthening citizen participation in national policy issues has been a priority. Most noteworthy is the introduction of citizen engagement which integrates deliberation-based methods into participatory policy initiatives. To enhance participation in other jurisdictions, we analyse efforts to transform participation in Canada. Also, to extend efforts to improve…
At the temporary-permanent divide
This paper explores the production of temporariness in Canada, and its implications for the citizenship rights of migrants. It investigates the production of temporariness within three policy fields that are typically not examined together – security, work and settlement. Within these three fields, it considers public policies concerning: (1) security of presence; (2) access to paid employment for spouses of migrants; and (3) eligibility for sett…
Place, affect, and transnationalism through the voices of Hong Kong immigrants to Canada
The emergence of a significant transnational community of immigrants from Hong Kong to Canada, and their Canadian-born children, during the 1990s can be understood through the experience of the affect of place, which gives meaning to the emotional experiences of community members. In contrast to theories that treat affect as a preconscious attribute, we treat affect as an emergent, socially constructed, and contextual capacity for individual emot…
Quotidian geographies
We discuss Susan Hanson's contributions to geography during the 1970s and 1980s through the lens of quotidian geographies, geographies of the everyday. Beginning from our own experiences as graduate students and new faculty members, we describe the social and theoretical context in which Susan published her initial studies of men's and women's activity patterns that examined gender differences in travel behavior and their origins in men's and wom…
Are Immigrants Socially Isolated? An Assessment of Neighbors and Neighboring in Canadian Cities
Immigrants and homelessness—at risk in Canada's outer suburbs
Homelessness is a risk for growing numbers of immigrants. Largely as a result of low incomes, newcomers are more likely than the Canadian‐born to spend over 50 percent of total household income on housing costs. Many newcomers suffer ‘hidden homelessness’. They do not use shelters and other services, but share accommodation, couch‐surf and rely on their social contacts for temporary and precarious housing. The adverse impact of low incomes on the…
Transnationalism through the life course
Transnationalism needs to be understood as a set of practices fashioned through the life course as well as in relation to contextual factors that include state policy and experiences of discrimination that affect entry to the labour force. The paradox of transnationalism is that families make strategic decisions to separate in order to maintain family unity and to advance the welfare of children. Emigrants from Hong Kong to Canada in the latter d…
Spatial mismatch research in the 1990s
At the temporary-permanent divide
This paper explores the production of temporariness in Canada, and its implications for the citizenship rights of migrants. It investigates the production of temporariness within three policy fields that are typically not examined together – security, work and settlement. Within these three fields, it considers public policies concerning: (1) security of presence; (2) access to paid employment for spouses of migrants; and (3) eligibility for sett…
Spatial Mismatch and Labor Market Segmentation for African-American and Latina Women
Sara McLafferty, Valerie Preston, Spatial Mismatch and Labor Market Segmentation for African-American and Latina Women, Economic Geography, Vol. 68, No. 4, Local Labor Markets (Oct., 1992), pp. 406-431
The Impact of Family Status on Black, White, and Hispanic Women's Commuting
The relationship between women's domestic labor and employment in the paid labor force is central to current debates about gender inequities in occupations and incomes. Recent studies of gender differences in commuting argue that women reduce the journey to work to accommodate the demands of family responsibilities. The empirical evidence, however, is mixed. Equal numbers of studies have reported significant andinsignificant relationships between…
Who has long commutes to low-wage jobs? Gender, race, and access to work in the New York region
Geographies of home and work have changed as public investment has favored central and distant suburban locations and as income inequality has increased. These changes result in shifting geographies of advantage that (dis)benefit gender and racial/ethnic groups unevenly. We examine commuting differentials by gender and race/ethnicity based on combinations of wages and commute times using data for the New York region.We find that Black, Asian, and…
Liberating Temporariness
Place, affect, and transnationalism through the voices of Hong Kong immigrants to Canada
The emergence of a significant transnational community of immigrants from Hong Kong to Canada, and their Canadian-born children, during the 1990s can be understood through the experience of the affect of place, which gives meaning to the emotional experiences of community members. In contrast to theories that treat affect as a preconscious attribute, we treat affect as an emergent, socially constructed, and contextual capacity for individual emot…
Transnationalism, Gender, and Civic Participation
It is widely claimed that recent migration trends show increasing levels of transnational activity, but there is a need for a more detailed understanding of the relationship between transnationalism and citizenship participation, particularly from a gendered perspective. A study of immigrants from Hong Kong to Vancouver and Toronto, the largest group of immigrants to Canada in the period 1989 to 1997, shows that, although migration occurred in a …
Immigrants and homelessness—at risk in Canada's outer suburbs
Homelessness is a risk for growing numbers of immigrants. Largely as a result of low incomes, newcomers are more likely than the Canadian‐born to spend over 50 percent of total household income on housing costs. Many newcomers suffer ‘hidden homelessness’. They do not use shelters and other services, but share accommodation, couch‐surf and rely on their social contacts for temporary and precarious housing. The adverse impact of low incomes on the…
Geographical Barriers to Employment for American-born and Immigrant Workers
Residential segregation interacts with the changing geography of transport and employment in urban areas to restrict access to workplaces. A growing literature suggests that spatial barriers limit the job opportunities of minority women and men in American cities. This study examines the nature and extent of geographical barriers for minority immigrants by analysing their commuting behaviour. Information from the 1990 Public Use Microdata Sample …
Geographies of Discrimination
Discomfort and discrimination experienced by racial minorities is of growing concern. Perceived racial discrimination and discomfort raise questions about social cohesion in pluralist democracies such as Canada and the United States, particularly in immigrant gateway cities that are increasingly heterogeneous. Little research has examined metropolitan variations in perceived discomfort or discrimination despite their distinct social, economic, an…
Estimating the completeness of death registration
Death registration statistics, even when incomplete, can provide valuable information about mortality. In particular, the age structure of deaths can be used to estimate the completeness of registration, provided that this completeness does not vary substantially with age. Two methods of estimating the completeness of death registration from the distribution of deaths by age are described. The first is derived from stable population theory and re…
Shift Work, Childcare and Domestic Work
The growing prevalence of shift work and non-standard working hours is \nchallenging many taken-for-granted notions about family and household life. This paper \nexamines how rotating shift-schedules shape household strategies with regard to \nchildcare and unpaid domestic work. In 1993-1994 we conducted in-depth interviews \nwith 90 predominantly male newsprint mill-workers and their spouses living in three \ncommunities located in different reg…
Canadian Urban Landscape Examples ‐ 21 ‘Asian theme’ malls in suburban Toronto
Spatial mismatch research in the 1990s
The Domestication of Women’s Work
Changes in the Canadian political economy, including trade liberalization, economic recession, the shift to postfordist forms of production, and monetarist economic policies, have intensified two processes which define the nature of women's work in the 1990s: informalization and domestication
A Path Model of Residential Stress and Inertia Among Older People
The mobility decisions of older people are examined empirically from a behavioral perspective which emphasizes residential stress and inertia. Duration of residence and three personal characteristics are hypothesized to influence stress and inertia. Using survey data from Kansas City, Kansas, a path model is estimated separately for elderly white and black homeowners and elderly renters. The need for disaggregation is confirmed. The significant p…
The Family Life Cycle, Leisure Activities, and Residential Area Evaluation
Life cycle effects on the importance assigned to residential area attributes are examined empirically. The family life cycle is hypothesized to affect residential area aspirations through changes in the frequency and location of leisure activities. The results indicate that the importance of eight residential area attributes varies significantly with life cycle status. The family life cycle also affects participation in leisure activities. Howeve…
Personal Construct Theory and Residential Choice
Personal construct theory is a cognitive theory of personality that provides a theoretical and methodological framework for examining four major research issues in the behavioral approach to residential choice. The theory elucidates the content and structure of residential cognition at the level of the individual. The family life cycle influences cognition, but residential experience is not related. The evidence shows that knowledge of cognition …
Experiences of discrimination and discomfort
This article compares feelings of discomfort and experiences of discrimination attributed to racial and ethnic difference among visible minorities and two white groups: “Europeans” and “white charter” individuals. In conducting the analysis, attention is given to the role of location by examining how responses vary in three types of locations in Canada: large and diverse metropolitan areas, smaller “second‐tier” cities, and towns and rural areas.…
Strengthening Citizen Participation in Public Policy-Making
Citizen participation has a longstanding history in Canadian policy-making. Recently, strengthening citizen participation in national policy issues has been a priority. Most noteworthy is the introduction of citizen engagement which integrates deliberation-based methods into participatory policy initiatives. To enhance participation in other jurisdictions, we analyse efforts to transform participation in Canada. Also, to extend efforts to improve…
Income Disparities and Employment and Occupational Changes in New York∗
PRESTON V. And MCLAFFERTY S. (1993) Income disparities and employment and occupational changes in New York, Reg. Studies 27, 223–235. To determine how deindustrialization and the growth of service employment have affected geographic disparities in income within urban areas, we examined empirically the spatial distribution of household income in the New York CMSA between 1960 and 1980 and the associations between income growth and employment and o…
Regionalization and Recent Immigrants’ Access to Jobs
Disability, wages, and commuting in New York
Estimating the completeness of death registration
Death registration statistics, even when incomplete, can provide valuable information about mortality. In particular, the age structure of deaths can be used to estimate the completeness of registration, provided that this completeness does not vary substantially with age. Two methods of estimating the completeness of death registration from the distribution of deaths by age are described. The first is derived from stable population theory and re…
The Family Life Cycle, Leisure Activities, and Residential Area Evaluation
Life cycle effects on the importance assigned to residential area attributes are examined empirically. The family life cycle is hypothesized to affect residential area aspirations through changes in the frequency and location of leisure activities. The results indicate that the importance of eight residential area attributes varies significantly with life cycle status. The family life cycle also affects participation in leisure activities. Howeve…
Personal Construct Theory and Residential Choice
Personal construct theory is a cognitive theory of personality that provides a theoretical and methodological framework for examining four major research issues in the behavioral approach to residential choice. The theory elucidates the content and structure of residential cognition at the level of the individual. The family life cycle influences cognition, but residential experience is not related. The evidence shows that knowledge of cognition …
A Multidimensional Scaling Analysis of Individual Differences in Residential Area Evaluation
A major stumbling block in behavioural research on residential mobility is the difficulty of specifying the decision process at the level of the individual. This paper uses multidimensional scaling
A Path Model of Residential Stress and Inertia Among Older People
The mobility decisions of older people are examined empirically from a behavioral perspective which emphasizes residential stress and inertia. Duration of residence and three personal characteristics are hypothesized to influence stress and inertia. Using survey data from Kansas City, Kansas, a path model is estimated separately for elderly white and black homeowners and elderly renters. The need for disaggregation is confirmed. The significant p…
A Case Study of Context Effects and Residential Area Evaluation in Hamilton, Canada
Context effects which describe how the characteristics of residential alternatives affect evaluation and residential choices are examined empirically. The extent that people use different criteria to cognize dissimilar residential areas is investigated with survey data from Hamilton, Canada. For nine residential areas, individual differences in cognition and context effects are evaluated by a two-way analysis of variance of attribute ratings. No …
Progress Report
(1987). PROGRESS REPORT: SPATIAL CHOICE BEHAVIOR IN URBAN ENVIRONMENTS. Urban Geography: Vol. 8, Socialist City I, pp. 374-379
Recent Advances in Modeling Spatial Choice Behavior
An Analysis of Multistop Grocery Shopping Trips
Homeowners and Neighborhood Re-Investment
This book investigates the efforts of homeowners to maintain and improve their dwellings. Their behavior, it has found, depends on economic variables as well as the sociological structure of their neighborhoods. Residential satisfaction, expectations of the neighborhood, and mobility plans were taken into account. Multivariate statistical analyses of models were conducted using household data from Minneapolis and Wooster, Ohio. Three important fi…
Gender, Race, and Commuting Among Service Sector Workers∗
The generality that women work closer to home and have shorter commuting times than men needs to be assessed for racial groups. Statistical analysis of commuting times for a large sample of service workers in the New York metropolitan area shows that black and hispanic women commute as far as their male counterparts and their commuting times far exceed those of white men and women. Workplace factors, such as income, occupation, and job accessibil…
The 1987 Crash and the Spatial Incidence of Employment Changes in the New York Metropolitan Region
Following the stock market crash on 19 October 1987, the securities industry contracted nation-wide. In New York City, over 10 800 jobs were lost within eight months of the crash. Bonuses, a major component of salaries in the industry, also declined. The short-run induced effects on regional output, employment and personal and business income were computed using an Input-Output model of metropolitan New York. Employment effects were decomposed by…
Who Lives in Condominiums and Cooperatives? An Empirical Investigation of Housing Tenure
Spatial Mismatch and Labor Market Segmentation for African-American and Latina Women
Sara McLafferty, Valerie Preston, Spatial Mismatch and Labor Market Segmentation for African-American and Latina Women, Economic Geography, Vol. 68, No. 4, Local Labor Markets (Oct., 1992), pp. 406-431
The Impact of Family Status on Black, White, and Hispanic Women's Commuting
The relationship between women's domestic labor and employment in the paid labor force is central to current debates about gender inequities in occupations and incomes. Recent studies of gender differences in commuting argue that women reduce the journey to work to accommodate the demands of family responsibilities. The empirical evidence, however, is mixed. Equal numbers of studies have reported significant andinsignificant relationships between…
Income Disparities and Employment and Occupational Changes in New York∗
PRESTON V. And MCLAFFERTY S. (1993) Income disparities and employment and occupational changes in New York, Reg. Studies 27, 223–235. To determine how deindustrialization and the growth of service employment have affected geographic disparities in income within urban areas, we examined empirically the spatial distribution of household income in the New York CMSA between 1960 and 1980 and the associations between income growth and employment and o…
The Domestication of Women’s Work
Changes in the Canadian political economy, including trade liberalization, economic recession, the shift to postfordist forms of production, and monetarist economic policies, have intensified two processes which define the nature of women's work in the 1990s: informalization and domestication
Vietnamese Casualties during the American War
Working With ‘Wild Rose I’
The Alberta Newsprint Company mill in Whitecourt, Alberta, with its state‐of‐the‐art paper machine dubbed Wild Rose I' is one of the most efficient newsprint mills in North America. This paper documents the systematic drive by the Alberta Newsprint Company to achieve lean production by the use of flexible work practices in a greenfield mill, which began production in 1990. The analysis begins by examining the way in which the workforce for the ne…
Geographical Barriers to Employment for American-born and Immigrant Workers
Residential segregation interacts with the changing geography of transport and employment in urban areas to restrict access to workplaces. A growing literature suggests that spatial barriers limit the job opportunities of minority women and men in American cities. This study examines the nature and extent of geographical barriers for minority immigrants by analysing their commuting behaviour. Information from the 1990 Public Use Microdata Sample …
Spatial mismatch research in the 1990s
Spatial mismatch research in the 1990s
Shift Work, Childcare and Domestic Work
The growing prevalence of shift work and non-standard working hours is \nchallenging many taken-for-granted notions about family and household life. This paper \nexamines how rotating shift-schedules shape household strategies with regard to \nchildcare and unpaid domestic work. In 1993-1994 we conducted in-depth interviews \nwith 90 predominantly male newsprint mill-workers and their spouses living in three \ncommunities located in different reg…
Canadian Urban Landscape Examples ‐ 21 ‘Asian theme’ malls in suburban Toronto
La mondialisation vue d'en bas
Sociology (35 obras) · Political science (32 obras) · Geography (31 obras) · Economics (25 obras) · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies (20 obras) · Gender Studies (18 obras) · Demographic economics (17 obras) · Immigration (15 obras) · Urban Transport and Accessibility (15 obras) · Business (14 obras)