(Jose) Carlos Teixeira

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Associate Professor, Geography

Degrees:

• BSc (Geography, Universite du Quebec a Montreal. 1980)
• MSc (Geography, Universite du Quebec a Montreal. 1983)
• PhD (Geography, York University. 1993)

Research Interests

• Urban and social geography, with emphasis on migration processes,
• Community formation,
• Housing and neighbourhood change,
• Ethnic entrepreneurship and the
• The social structure of Canadian cities

National Metropolis Project

• Priority Leader - Domain: "Housing and Neighbourhoods"
•  http://www.metropolis.net/

Research Support

• Metropolis British Columbia (2008-2009)
• Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (2006-2007)
• Community University Research Alliance (CURA) Program of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (With 28 co-applicants plus community partners). Centre for Urban and Community Studies - University of Toronto. December 2004.
• Centre for Urban and Community Studies - University of Toronto - Toronto - 2002-2003.
• Joint Centre of Excellence for Research on Immigration and Settlement (CERIS) - Toronto - 1999

Selection of Publications

• TEIXEIRA, Carlos (2009). "New Immigrant Settlement in a Mid-size City: A Case Study of Housing Barriers and Coping Strategies in Kelowna, British Columbia", The Canadian Geographer, 53: 323-339.  
• TEIXEIRA, Carlos (2008). "Barriers and Outcomes in the Housing Searches of New Immigrants and Refugees: A Case Study of "Black" Africans in Toronto's Rental Market", Journal of Housing and the Built Environment, 23: 253-276. 
• TEIXEIRA, Carlos (2007). “Residential Experiences and the Culture of Suburbanization – A Case Study of Portuguese Homebuyers in Mississauga”, Housing Studies, 22(4): 495-521. 
• TEIXEIRA, Carlos, L. Lo and M. Truelove (2007). “Immigrant Entrepreneurship, Institutional Discrimination, and Implications for Public Policy”, Environment and Planning C, 25(2):176-193.
• LI, Wei and Carlos Teixeira (2007). “Introduction: Immigrants and Transnational Experiences in World Cities”, GeoJournal, 68(2/3): 93-102.
• TEIXEIRA, Carlos (2006). “Housing Experiences of Black Africans in Toronto’s Rental Housing Market: A Case Study of Angolan and Mozambican Immigrants”, Canadian Ethnic Studies , XXXVIII (3): 58-86. 
• TEIXEIRA, Carlos (2006). “A Comparative Study of Portuguese Homebuyers’ Suburbanization in the Toronto and Montreal Areas”, Espaces-Populations-Societes, 1: 121-135. 
• TEIXEIRA, Carlos (2006). “Residential Segregation and Ethnic Economies in a Multicultural City: The Little Portugal of Toronto”, in Landscapes of the Ethnic Economy, eds. David Kaplan and Wei Li, 49-65. New York: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.

Special Issues

• TEIXEIRA, Carlos and Wei Li (Editors) (2009). "Immigrant and Refugee Experiences in North American Cities", Journal of Immigrant and Refugee Studies, 7. 
• LI, Wei and Carlos Teixeira (Editors) (2007). “Immigrants and Transnational Experiences in World Cities”, GeoJournal, 68(2/3): 93-278.

Books

• TEIXEIRA, Carlos and Victor M. P. Da Rosa (Editors) (2009). The Portuguese in Canada: Diasporic Challenges and Adjustment. Toronto: University of Toronto Press (295 Pages) (Second Edition).

Teaching Portfolio

UBC Okanagan Calendar Course Descriptions are available at available online.

• Geography 128: Human Geography: Space, Place and Community
• Geography 129: Human Geography: Resources, Development and Society
• Geography 351: Urban Social Geography
• Geography 353: Geographies of Migration and Settlement
• Geography 371: Research Methods in Human Geography
• Geography 454: Geographies of Housing
• Geography 458: Population Geography

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Contact

ART263
Phone: 250-807-9313
E-mail: carlos.teixeira@ubc.ca

Community, Culture, and Global Studies
Irving K. Barber School of Arts & Sciences
The University of British Columbia Okanagan
3333 University Way
Kelowna, BC V1V 1V7