Valerie Preston
Biographic Data
| ID | 3635596 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Valerie Preston |
| GIVEN NAMES | Valerie |
| FAMILY NAME | Preston |
| SIGNATURE | PRESTON V |
| AFFILIATIONS | York University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 224 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 30 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Entrepreneurial activities of Canadian Bangladeshi women in Toronto: A Family Perspective
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 …
Together in difference: A review symposium on Everyday Equalities: Making Multicultures in Settler Colonial Cities , by Ruth Fincher, Kurt Iveson, Helga Leitner and Valerie Preston
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
Placing the second generation: A case study of Toronto
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
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: Making Multicultures in Settler Colonial Cities
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: A geographical analysis of ethno-racial discrimination in Toronto
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: Forging Space for NGOs-the Case of Ceris-The Ontario Metropolis Centre
Introduction Liberating Temporariness? Imagining Alternatives to Permanence as a Pathway for Social Inclusion
Planning in the multicultural city: Celebrating diversity or reinforcing difference?
Being CBC: The Ambivalent Identities and Belonging of Canadian-Born Children of Immigrants
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: Migration, Work, and Citizenship in an Age of Insecurity
Experiences of discrimination and discomfort: A comparison of metropolitan and non‐metropolitan locations
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.…
At the temporary-permanent divide: How Canada produces temporariness and makes citizens through its security, work, and settlement policies
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…
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…
Geographies of Discrimination: Variations in Perceived Discomfort and Discrimination in Canada's Gateway Cities
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…
Gender Divisions and Working Time in the New Economy: Changing Patterns of Work, Care and Public Policy in Europe and North America
Transnationalism, Gender, and Civic Participation: Canadian Case Studies of Hong Kong Immigrants
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 …
La mondialisation vue d'en bas: Une perspective féministe
Canadian Urban Landscape Examples ‐ 21 ‘Asian theme’ malls in suburban Toronto: Land use conflict in Richmond Hill
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 …
Working With ‘Wild Rose I’: Lean Production in a Greenfield Mill
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…
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
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…
At the temporary-permanent divide: How Canada produces temporariness and makes citizens through its security, work, and settlement policies
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
Liberating Temporariness: Migration, Work, and Citizenship in an Age of Insecurity
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: Canadian Case Studies of Hong Kong Immigrants
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: Variations in Perceived Discomfort and Discrimination in Canada's Gateway Cities
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…
Canadian Urban Landscape Examples ‐ 21 ‘Asian theme’ malls in suburban Toronto: Land use conflict in Richmond Hill
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: A comparison of metropolitan and non‐metropolitan locations
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.…
Working With ‘Wild Rose I’: Lean Production in a Greenfield Mill
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…
Placing the second generation: A case study of Toronto
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…
Working with diversity: A geographical analysis of ethno-racial discrimination in Toronto
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…
Being CBC: The Ambivalent Identities and Belonging of Canadian-Born Children of Immigrants
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…
La mondialisation vue d'en bas: Une perspective féministe
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…
Entrepreneurial activities of Canadian Bangladeshi women in Toronto: A Family Perspective
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 …
Who Lives in Condominiums and Cooperatives? An Empirical Investigation of Housing Tenure
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 …
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
Working With ‘Wild Rose I’: Lean Production in a Greenfield Mill
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 …
Canadian Urban Landscape Examples ‐ 21 ‘Asian theme’ malls in suburban Toronto: Land use conflict in Richmond Hill
La mondialisation vue d'en bas: Une perspective féministe
Transnationalism, Gender, and Civic Participation: Canadian Case Studies of Hong Kong Immigrants
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 …
Gender Divisions and Working Time in the New Economy: Changing Patterns of Work, Care and Public Policy in Europe and North America
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…
Geographies of Discrimination: Variations in Perceived Discomfort and Discrimination in Canada's Gateway Cities
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…
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…
At the temporary-permanent divide: How Canada produces temporariness and makes citizens through its security, work, and settlement policies
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…
Experiences of discrimination and discomfort: A comparison of metropolitan and non‐metropolitan locations
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.…
Introduction Liberating Temporariness? Imagining Alternatives to Permanence as a Pathway for Social Inclusion
Planning in the multicultural city: Celebrating diversity or reinforcing difference?
Being CBC: The Ambivalent Identities and Belonging of Canadian-Born Children of Immigrants
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: Migration, Work, and Citizenship in an Age of Insecurity
Working with diversity: A geographical analysis of ethno-racial discrimination in Toronto
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: Forging Space for NGOs-the Case of Ceris-The Ontario Metropolis Centre
Sociology (24 works) · Political science (19 works) · Economics (13 works) · Geography (13 works) · Gender Studies (12 works) · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies (11 works) · Business (10 works) · Migration and Labor Dynamics (10 works) · Immigration (9 works) · Demographic economics (8 works)