Neighbours and Friends? Can Residential Segregation Explain Ethnic Separation? The Case of Milan (Italy)

Rimoldi, S; Terzera, Laura

doi:10.1007/s40980-017-0031-2

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“…In such a context, ethnic diasporas can be expected to play a significant role. It is also plausible that networking with locals and networking within the ethnic diaspora will have a significant but possibly opposite effect on the economic success of an ethnic entrepreneur in Milan (see Borjas 1995;Rimoldi and Terzera 2017). Next, although not the biggest group in terms of overall share of immigrants, the Albanian immigrants are among the top five most entrepreneurially-oriented ethnic minorities in Milan (see Fetahu and Bejtja 2014).…”

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Network Survival Strategies of Migrant Entrepreneurs in Large Cities: Analysis of Albanian Firms in Milan

Tubadji

Fetahu

Nijkamp

et al. 2020

Entrepreneurship & Regional Development

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This paper addresses the role of cultural bias (preference for what is culturally more akin) in the entrepreneurial choice regarding different types of social networks in the context of urban mixed embeddedness. We test empirically the presence and aftermaths of this cultural bias, drawing on evidence from a natural experiment with regard to Albanian ethnic entrepreneurs in the city of Milan, Italy. Namely, these entrepreneurs are exposed to the same mixed urban embeddedness and, when we control for firm characteristics, the only discriminating component explaining their success is their choice of social network. We focus on the choice over three types of social networks, classified according to varying degrees of cultural distance between the network and the entrepreneur: (a) the indigenous population, (b) the local Albanian diaspora, and (c) fellow citizens residing in the country of origin, Albania (i.e., transnational networking). We employ a novel method for reverse engineering of preferences for networking by using a Kaplan-Meier estimator and a propensity-score matching technique. We find that strategic network liaisons with locals is actually the most beneficial social network for ethnic firm performance. However, it is social networking within the culturally closer local Albanian diaspora that is the most common behavior.

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Network Survival Strategies of Migrant Entrepreneurs in Large Cities: Analysis of Albanian Firms in Milan

Tubadji

Fetahu

Nijkamp

et al. 2020

Entrepreneurship & Regional Development

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“…The Romanians represent the largest foreign resident community in Italy (1,1 million residents in 2020) and in the Rome MC (168,000 residents), and the second largest in the Milan MC (51,000 residents). They are a very mobile community given their status as EU citizens (since 1 January 2007) that tends to migrate as a family (Barbiano di Belgiojoso and Terzera, 2018; Castro-Martín and Cortina, 2015; Vlase, 2013), and they have a relatively strong cultural affinity to Italians based on language and religion (Rimoldi and Terzera, 2017). The Bangladeshi community is rapidly growing in Italy, and it is the third largest group in the Rome MC (33,000 residents in 2020) and the eighth in the Milan MC (10,000 residents).…”

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Migrants’ Population, Residential Segregation, and Metropolitan Spaces - Insights from the Italian Experience over the Last 20 Years

Benassi

Crisci

Matthews³

et al. 2022

Migration Letters

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Southern European studies of migrants’ spatial distribution within metropolitan cities (MCs) are increasingly relevant to understanding residential segregation and marginalisation, particularly of foreign nationals. This paper leverages original and partially unpublished data to examine overall and foreign national specific segregation over two decades in Rome MC and Milan MC, the two largest Italian MCs. We introduce a 5-class concentric ring typology to describe and uncover geographical patterns within the MCs and focus on the spatial and temporal distribution of four selected foreign nationalities: Romanian, Bangladeshi, Chinese, and Filipino. Results reveal heterogeneity in overall and foreign national specific distributions over time both within and between Rome MC and Milan MC. Comparing across groups and MCs we identify similarities but also unique patterns. These results shed light on the peculiarity of the urban demographic Italian landscape and raise questions regarding recent theories about residential segregation in the urban contexts of Southern Europe.

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“…families with children), ethnicity, immigration history, occupation, norms, values, and lifestyles. Interactions within ethnic subgroups that share an immigration history are less constrained by spatial boundaries (Rimoldi, Terzera 2017). Due to their frequent use of child care facilities and educational institutions, households with children have a higher chance of becoming involved with other neighbours of distinct social backgrounds (Davidson 2010).…”

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Re-Imagining the City: Municipality and Urbanity Today from a Sociological Perspective

Smagacz‐Poziemska¹,

Frysztacki²,

Bukowski³

2018

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vice or recreational spaces, communication routes, urban equipment, etc.). Th erefore the city comprises not only a fabric, but also a laboratory of social realms with their structural-material consequences of varying scale, range, and signifi cance.Such a diverse array of aff airs and problems makes some concessions as to the form of their analysis and description. Th is book is not a mere collection of academic texts. Th e reader will fi nd here regular scientifi c articles of theoretical, empirical or methodological nature along with a number of texts30 Małgorzata Dymnicka References

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Neighbours and Friends? Can Residential Segregation Explain Ethnic Separation? The Case of Milan (Italy)

Cited by 14 publications

References 41 publications

Network Survival Strategies of Migrant Entrepreneurs in Large Cities: Analysis of Albanian Firms in Milan

Network Survival Strategies of Migrant Entrepreneurs in Large Cities: Analysis of Albanian Firms in Milan

Migrants’ Population, Residential Segregation, and Metropolitan Spaces - Insights from the Italian Experience over the Last 20 Years

Re-Imagining the City: Municipality and Urbanity Today from a Sociological Perspective

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