Ethnicity and Occupational Mobility. A Comparative Study of Greek and Slovak Immigrants in "Ontario City".

The article presents information on ethnicity and occupational mobility. The article compares the degree of upward occupational mobility of the Greek and Slowak immigrants in Ontario city. Sociological studies have shown that most of the minority groups (racial and ethnic) in Canada tend to have low socioeconomic status. Canada indicated that ethnic differences have been important in building up the bottom layer of the stratification system in both agricultural and industrial settings. The occupations that most of the immigrant groups enter are those, which require little or no skill, have low wage levels, and make few linguistic demands. A review of sociological literature indicates that sociological research on the occupational mobility of Greek and Slowak immigrants in Canada is limited. A comparative study demonstrates accurate but different results concerning the occupational mobility of Greek and Slovak immigrants since each of the two ethnic groups is characterized by distinctive socioeconomic values in their former countries.