Ethnic segregation and native out-migration in Copenhagen

Abstract

In this article, we study how the local concentration of ethnic minorities relates to the likelihood of out-migration by natives in Copenhagen, the capital of Denmark. In US studies, a high or increasing proportion of racial or ethnic minorities in inner-city neighborhoods is seen as an important motivation for White middle-class families’ out-migration to racially and ethnically homogeneous suburbs. The relatively egalitarian Scandinavian setting offers a contrasting case, where inner cities are less deprived and where minority groups primarily consist of immigrants and the children of immigrants who have arrived over the past few decades. We use population-wide, longitudinal administrative data covering a 12-year period, and measures of individualized neighborhoods based on exact coordinates for place of residence, to examine whether out-migration is associated with minority concentrations in the Copenhagen area. Our results largely support the presence of a native out-migration mobility pattern, in contrast to much existing literature. We also show that responses to increasing minority concentrations vary across the life course and between natives and children of immigrants.

Investigating neighbourhood concentration of immigrants in Poland: explorative evidence from Kraków

“…The main challenge for studies on settlements and mobility patterns is to define size of neighbourhood (Stonawski et al, 2021;Malmberg et al, 2018;Musterd, 2005). Usually, in the literature on segregation, there appear city districts, census tracts or other administrative divisions that in many cases are arbitrary from the perspective of the conducted studies, as local neighbourhoods do not necessarily stop at administrative borders.…”

“…This allows us to study patterns using geographic coordinates and individualised scalable neighbourhoods instead of areal and administrative units of various sizes. To our knowledge, it is the first dataset of this type to be prepared and used for research purposes in Poland, and it has similar qualities as those used, for example, in studies in the Netherlands, Denmark, Norway or Sweden (Bolt et al, 2008;Marcińczak et al, 2015;Wessel et al, 2016;Musterd et al, 2017;Andersson et al, 2018;Stonawski et al, 2021). With this innovative data and approach, in this article we address the following important questions:…”

“…Some of the key factors responsible for different patterns of segregation in Europe include migration policy (in particular, a visa regime defining who can enter and under what conditions), character of housing market (in particular, availability of social housing for migrants), welfare-state regime and spatial planning (Arbaci, 2007;Anderson et al, 2018). Studies carried out in Western European cities show that residential segregation is also a result of discrimination on the housing market, differential preferences among different minority and majority groups and so-called cumulative neighbourhood disadvantages, which relate mostly to subsequent generations of immigrants (Peach, 2002;2010;Stonawski et al, 2021).…”

Micro-Segregation of Ethnic Minorities in Rome: Highlighting Specificities of National Groups in Micro-Segregated Areas

“…The issue of scale has been addressed by many authors, and the block has been seen as a level of micro-'proximity' spatial detail that is also of interest in qualitative sociological studies [36]. In recent years, many studies have been able to overcome the MAUP thanks to the availability of granular statistical data that make possible a multiscale analysis through the definition of 'egocentric neighbourhoods' [15,37].…”