<i>THE COMPARATIVE STUDY OF ETHNIC RESIDENTIAL SEGREGATION IN THE USA, 1980–2000</i>

Johnston, Ron; Poulsen, Michael; Forrest, James

doi:10.1111/j.0040-747x.2004.00339.x

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“…Douglas Massey and Nancy Denton have been influential in setting the research agenda by identifying five conceptual dimensions: evenness, exposure, concentration, centralisation and clustering (Massey and Denton 1988). Although Asian and Hispanic segregation increased in the USA during the 1980s and 1990s when the exposure dimension of segregation is measured using the isolation index (Johnston et al 2004), other measures show no change or decrease in segregation (Iceland et al 2002). In the UK different indices show ethnic residential segregation increasing or decreasing (Simpson 2007).…”

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Population Dynamics: The Roles of Natural Change and Migration in Producing the Ethnic Mosaic

Finney¹,

Simpson²

2009

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

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This paper builds on an emerging literature that focuses on processes of population change as a means of understanding geographies of ethnicity. It argues that persistent assumptions of segregation being the result of divisive separation of ethnic groups are mistaken. The paper takes a demographic approach, presenting analyses of original estimates of natural change and net migration for eight ethnic groups in Britain over the period 1991Á2001, at national and district levels. Major results are the greater significance of natural change than migration for minority ethnic population change, and the accordance of population dynamics with theories of counter-urbanisation and dispersal from areas of minority ethnic concentration. The importance of natural change is illustrated through the presentation of its effects on the index of isolation. The paper concludes that ethnic group population change in Britain can to a large extent be explained by benign and unexceptional demographic processes and ethnically undifferentiated migration patterns.

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Population Dynamics: The Roles of Natural Change and Migration in Producing the Ethnic Mosaic

Finney¹,

Simpson²

2009

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

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“…Indeed, the most isolated communities have modified isolation (MI) indices only slightly higher than 0.10; the scale goes up to 1. In comparison, Johnston et al (2004) showed that MI indices can exceed 0.5 for BBlack^communities in some American metropolitan areas; the mean was 0.253 in 1980 and 0.208 in 2000. However, in contexts where many immigrant communities coexist in the same neighborhoods, a non-isolated community could still have little residential proximity to the majority group.…”

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“…They propose exogenous factors to explain their results, such as discrimination, housing markets, and group preferences (Johnston et al 2004). Canadian cities can hardly be compared to American ones; the racial diversity in Canada is much more recent than in the United States and results from Canada's recent immigration policies rather than historical reasons.…”

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A Statistical Approach for Analyzing Residential Isolation and its Determinants for Immigrant Communities: an Application to the Montréal Metropolitan Region

Marois

Lord

2017

Appl. Spatial Analysis

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The aim of this paper is to measure the net propensity to live in isolation for Montréal's main immigrant communities and to identify specific profiles that are particularly isolated. For that purpose, a statistical approach is used based on individual determinants to compute standardized isolation indexes that take into account the socioeconomic composition of the different groups. The models we developed also reveal how individuals' characteristics, such as generational status, date of migration, education, language abilities or income, affect their residential isolation. Results reveal that many individual characteristics have strong impacts on residential isolation, and that those impacts are not always the same among immigrant communities. Also, the low propensity to live in isolation observed for all immigrant communities suggests that the place stratification model is probably not relevant to explain the residential dynamics of immigrant communities in Montréal. However, some vulnerable groups are much more likely to live in isolation: Haitian and South Asian with low education, low-income Maghrebis, and Filipinos who arrived via the Live-in Caregivers program. Some wealthy groups are also more isolated, such as Italians arrived before 1981. Therefore, considering this wide heterogeneity among immigrant communities, studies on their residential dynamic should not consider them as a whole.

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“…International comparative studies are hampered by variations or data consistency relating to the definition of ethnicity and the spatial scale at which data is made available and analysed (see Johnston et al 2004). Unlike international comparative studies, intra-national studies ensure data consistency due to the use of single sources, usually the national census.…”

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A comparative study of ethnic residential segregation in Ghana’s two largest cities, Accra and Kumasi

Owusu

Agyei‐Mensah

2011

Popul Environ

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The rate of urbanization is far more rapid in sub-Saharan Africa than in any other major region of the world. However, little is known about patterns of ethnic residential segregation in rapidly urbanizing African cities. This paper is crafted to make an important contribution through its focus on Ghana's two largest cities: Accra and Kumasi. Making use of the most recent population and housing census data of 2000 to generate a Location Quotient index, the analyses explore the cities' degree of ethnic diversity and concentration for comparative purposes. In relative terms, the study reveals that the level of residential ethnic segregation is fairly balanced in Accra compared to Kumasi. However, there are important differences between the findings of this Ghanaian case study and findings from research in the West, where the residential segregation is heavily determined by cultural/racial factors in addition to socio-economic factors. In the absence of institutional and ethnic discrimination, the most fundamental underlying cause of segregation in the Ghanaian case appears to be the socio-economic circumstance of ethnic groups present in the cities. The paper concludes by exploring the implications of the study for urban and national development in Ghana as well as the future patterns of ethnic clustering likely to emerge in Accra and Kumasi.

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THE COMPARATIVE STUDY OF ETHNIC RESIDENTIAL SEGREGATION IN THE USA, 1980–2000

Cited by 34 publications

References 26 publications

Population Dynamics: The Roles of Natural Change and Migration in Producing the Ethnic Mosaic

Population Dynamics: The Roles of Natural Change and Migration in Producing the Ethnic Mosaic

A Statistical Approach for Analyzing Residential Isolation and its Determinants for Immigrant Communities: an Application to the Montréal Metropolitan Region

A comparative study of ethnic residential segregation in Ghana’s two largest cities, Accra and Kumasi

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