%0 Journal Article
%T Home leaving trajectories in Canada: exploring cultural and gendered dimensions
%A Wister
%A Andrew V.
%A Mitchell
%A Barbara A.
%A Gee
%A Ellen M.
%J Canadian Studies in Population
%D 2003
%I Canadian Population Society
%X English In this exploratory study, we profile variations in home leaving, homereturning,and home staying behaviour among four ethnocultural groups in Canada -British, Chinese, Indian, and South European. Data collected in a 1999-2000survey of 1,907 young adults (ages 19-35) residing in the Vancouver area areused. Our principal foci are ethnocultural and gendered aspects of home leavingtrajectories, specifically: ages at home leaving and returning, and reasons forhome leaving, home returning and home staying. Special attention is paid toreturners/boomerangers, given an increasing overall trend in home returning inCanada. We find that: (a) both ethnocultural origin and gender are importantdeterminants of home leaving trajectory, (b) there is a distinct (but far from tidy)difference between European-origin and Asian-origin groups in home leavingtrajectory, (c) British-Canadians leave home at the youngest ages and Indo-Canadians at the oldest ages, (d) the main reason for home leaving isindependence for British-Canadians; schooling for Chinese-Canadians, andmarriage for Indo-Canadians, (e) among all four groups, home returners leavehome initially at younger ages and, with the exception of Indo-Canadian youngmen, who typically leave home for school, and (f) gender differences in homeleaving trajectory are larger among the Chinese and Indo-Canadians than amongpersons of European origins. Overall, we conclude that the theorized trend of theindividualized family life course holds for only some ethnocultural groups inCanada. We conclude with suggestions for future research directions on thetopic of ethnicity and the home leaving life course transitions. French Dans cette ¨¦tude pr¨¦liminaire, nous donnons le profil de plusieurscomportements relatifs au fait de quitter la maison, dˇŻy retourner et dˇŻy rester dequatre groupes ethnoculturels au Canada, notamment les Britanniques, lesChinois, les Indiens et les ressortissants du sud de lˇŻEurope. On sˇŻest servi dedonn¨¦es recueillies lors dˇŻun sondage effectu¨¦ en 1999-2000 aupr¨¨s de 1907jeunes adultes (ag¨¦s de 19 ¨¤ 35 ans) vivant dans la r¨¦gion de Vancouver. Nous¨¦tions particuli¨¨rement int¨¦ress¨¦s par les aspects ethnoculturels et ceux quitiennent compte du r le des hommes et des femmes dans les trajectoires qui lesm¨¨nent ¨¤ quitter la maison, plus pr¨¦cis¨¦ment ¨¤ quel age ils la quittent et yreviennent, quelles sont les raisons qui les poussent ¨¤ partir, ¨¤ y revenir et ¨¤ yrester. Une attention toute sp¨¦ciale est accord¨¦e aux enfants boomerang (ceuxqui reviennent apr¨¨s avoir quitt¨¦ la maison) vu que cette tendance se manifest
%K home leaving
%K home staying
%K home returning
%K boomerang young adults
%K ethnic differences
%K gender differences
%K movement trajectories
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