Canada as a New Place: The Immigrant’s Experience
Author(s)
Ng, Cheuk Fan
Abstract
Reviews and discusses aspects of the physical settings that immigrants learn about and adapt in a new place (Canada, in particular). Immigration trends in Canada, theories of coping with an unfamiliar culture, and culture and environment relationships are reviewed briefly. An integration of literature on immigrants’ learning and adaptation with respect to environmental cognition, adaptation to winter climate, leisure and recreation, communication via environmental cues, housing, and place attachment follows. Finally, current means by which immigrant settlement can be facilitated are discussed.
