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Segregation

      Eric Fong, Kumiko Shibuya, and Brent Berry

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Tables and Figures

      Tables

1.1 How residential segregation relates to physical and social distance

2.1 Segregation and boundaries

      3.1 An illustration of the composition invariance principle

      3.2 Segregation in the 10 largest metropolitan areas in the United States, 2000–10

      3.3 Dissimilarity index of the 10 largest census metropolitan areas of indigenous population in Canada, 2016

      7.1 Theories of integration and expected residential outcomes for immigrants

Figures

      3.1 An illustration of the checkerboard problem

      3.2 Dimensions of spatial segregation

      6.1 Chinatown in Toronto

      6.2 Chinese suburban concentrated area in Greater Toronto

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Introduction

      When you walk the streets of major cities of the world, such as Cairo, London, Mexico City, New York, São Paulo, Sydney, Tokyo, and Toronto, you will quickly notice different groups of people living in different parts of the city. In some neighborhoods, most residents are of the same racial or ethnic group. They tend to know each other well as many of