Violent Victimization, Discrimination and Perceptions of Safety

Most were established immigrants (73%), while 23% were recent immigrants.4 Most immigrants were from Asia (41%), Europe including the United Kingdom (32%) and the Americas (including the United States) (16%).5, 6 Results from the GSS on Victimization show that more than half of the immigrant population aged 15 years and older identified as a visible minority (58%),7 compared to 5% of the non-immig [...] The GSS on Victimization found that of the provinces and territories, Ontario (28%) and British Columbia (25%) were home to the highest proportions of immigrants in 2014, with at least one in four residents 15 years of age and older being an immigrant—significantly higher than the national share. [...] Said another way, immigrants made up almost half (45%) of the population of Toronto, a third (34%) of the population of Vancouver and almost a quarter (22%) of the population of Montréal.10 In 2014, immigrants in Toronto were most commonly from Asia (46%), followed by Europe (29%) and the Americas (17%), and nearly two-thirds (64%) of them were visible minority.11 Visible minority immigrants in To [...] Similar to the non-immigrant population, the risk of violent victimization among immigrants was highest among the young: those aged 15 to 24 years experienced violent victimization at a rate of 97E incidents per 1,000 population compared to a rate of 34E per 1,000 population reported by immigrants 25 years of age and older. [...] Most immigrant victims experienced a single violent incident The experiences of immigrant victims of violence were in many ways similar to those of victims from the non-immigrant population, when it came to the nature of the victimization.