GEOG 1050: Lecture 7 (Demographics 5: Arrival Cities)

Vocabulary flashcards covering the key concepts, definitions, figures, and case studies from Demographics 5: Arrival Cities.

Arrival City

A transitional space where migrants first settle upon moving to a city, possessing characteristics that can either prevent or support their upward social mobility.

Arrival Infrastructures

The interconnected linkages between people, institutions, and technology—including co-ethnic networks, accessible housing, worship spaces, public spaces, migrant-specific retail, and support networks—that facilitate newcomer settlement.

Doug Saunders

Canadian journalist and author of 'Arrival City', who conceptualized how migration reshapes urban spaces and examined neighbourhoods like Thorncliffe Park in Toronto as successful arrival cities.

Chain Migration

A process facilitated by established arrival cities and social networks that connects an origin village to a destination city through physical and aspirational flows like money, knowledge, labor, and support networks.

Thorncliffe Park

A neighbourhood in Toronto highlighted as a thriving arrival city due to its dense housing, robust social networks, public transit, walkable social infrastructure, large elementary school, ground-floor retail, and local support offices.

Key Indicators of an Arrival City

Demographic features characteristic of arrival cities, specifically high rates of in-migration and populations in flux, serving as resource hubs and launching points for newcomers despite social disadvantages.

St. John's Arrival Infrastructure

An arrival space model in a smaller city context where regional population and economic sustainability rely on immigration, driven by key institutions like Memorial University (MUN) and the local tech sector.

Neighbourhood Profiles (City of Toronto)

City datasets based on Census data used to evaluate 158 Toronto neighbourhoods using key arrival metrics such as percentage of immigrants, recent immigrants, and non-official mother tongue speakers.