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Immigrant settlement success hinges on effectively reconstructing social life in the receiving society. With the increased admission of racialized immigrants to Canada, it is imperative to investigate how their sense of sociability and belonging manifests within the broader context of white-dominant Canadian society. This research examines everyday place-based experiences of settlement sociability among racialized immigrants based on the understanding that racial matters are spatial matters. Using the photovoice method, ten racialized recent immigrant men aged 27 to 50, mostly from African and West Asian origins, expressed their settlement experiences through photo-rendering of places of comfort and discomfort. The participants had lived in Canada for less than ten years and immigrated to Canada through the refugee, family, and economic immigration admission categories. Findings indicate that racialized immigrants felt comfortable in “de-racialized” spaces, where they were temporarily relieved from their ethnic visibility and a sense of being out of place. They were uncomfortable in areas that triggered “racialized insecurity,” where they felt vulnerable because of their racialized identity. The analysis further points to the emotional and embodied nature of racial experiences: participants’ uneasy sense of otherness is rooted in their racialized physiques that inhabit a socio-cultural environment where whiteness is the somatic norm. The findings of this research call attention to the need for a closer inspection of how places of immigrant settlement and race are inextricably linked. The promotion of settlement sociability needs to go beyond physical proximity to social closeness, valuing co-ethnicity and cultural familiarity, especially in the initial stage of settlement. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This text is an excerpt of a research developed within the scope of the Course Completion Work (TCC) of the graduation in Degree in Geography from the State University of Bahia (UNEB), Campus IX Serrinha, semi-arid region of Bahia, entitled: "Campo, city, urban and rural: concepts, representations and approaches in Geography textbooks". For the present essay, we used the photographic records that are part of the methodological collection of the research to weave reflections from a theoretical contribution that deals with small towns, ruralities, photographs and the teaching of Geography. The reflections defend the insertion of the students? daily spatial practices in the approaches of concepts and themes of Geography at school. Besides, the unique dynamics of the small town through the manifestations of ruralities that occur in it also explains its particularities in relation to medium and large cities, and its recognition in the context of teaching Geography, conceives other and different modes of understanding these spaces and of the ways of being of the who experience them. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Small study areas are vastly underrepresented in the criminological literature, including the literature on the relationship between crime and weather. North Bay, ON (population 50,000) provides a useful study area in which to begin to address this lack. Using five years of police call for service data (2015–2019), negative binomial regression models were used to assess the relationships between weather variables and assaults, break and enters, domestic disputes, and thefts. For each crime type, the resulting models were compared based on their Aikake information criteria (AICs) to determine which performed the best. Significant relationships were found to differ between crime types. Temperature played a significant role in determining the temporal distribution of thefts, while for break and enters a model without weather variables performed best, even though both are property crimes. Similarly, for violent crimes, assaults were found to be positively correlated to temperature, while domestic disputes depended mainly on day of the week. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The objective of the work was to present the rural-urban dynamics of Santa Cruz do Rio Pardo, a city located in the Midwest region of São Paulo, between 1950 and 2016, as an element that contributes to the understanding of the role it played in the urban network of Ourinhos. This time frame refers to the intensification of the urbanization process in this municipality and to the changes in economic activities developed in it. The analysis of Santa Cruz do Rio Pardo was motivated by the fact that it is a small city that has undergone significant transformations, within the scope of the urban network in which it operates, standing out as to the growth of the secondary sector. It was found that the accumulation of capital obtained from agricultural activities developed since the birth of the municipality, notably the cultivation of coffee, contributed to the development of economic activities in the urban area, especially regarding the food industry, a sector that stands out in the period current. To carry out this work, we consulted the bibliography referring to the history of Santa Cruz do Rio Pardo, the concepts, small towns and urban network and economic and demographic data in order to understand the rural-urban dynamics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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