Racial and ethnic residential segregation and household structure: A research note

Iceland, John; Goyette, Kimberly A.; Nelson, Kyle Anne; Chan, Chao-Wen

doi:10.1016/j.ssresearch.2009.06.006

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“…Thus, SALA households self‐segregate based on their stage in the life cycle, as they require less space than a household with a spouse and children (South and Deane, 1993). Even married‐couple households without children have residential patterns that more closely resemble those of families with children than nonfamily households, suggesting that the former households perhaps either anticipate having children soon or recently had children leave the home (Iceland et al, 2010; Frey and Berube, 2002).…”

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The Racial Residential Segregation of Black Single Living Alone Households

Marsh

Iceland

2010

City & Community

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While many studies have examined the intersection of race and class with residential segregation and residential preferences, very little is known about the role played by household composition in shaping residential patterns. This paper focuses on the residential patterns of a particular kind of household: those consisting of persons single and living alone (SALA). We compare the residential segregation of black SALA households—an important subset of non-family households and a rapidly growing segment of the population—from white SALA households and both white and black married-couple households. We examine how group and metropolitan characteristics influence segregation levels for these household types. Using data from the 2000 census, we find that black SALA households are less segregated from white SALA households than from white married-couple households. Multivariate analyses show that smaller income differences across SALA households account for these segregation patterns, indicating the importance of economic resources in influencing residential patterns. Nevertheless, race continues to play an important role, as black SALA household segregation from both kinds of white households is high in absolute terms and relative to their segregation from black married-couple households.

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The Racial Residential Segregation of Black Single Living Alone Households

Marsh

Iceland

2010

City & Community

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“…However, marriage, or at least the legal registration of a partnership, is required to qualify for such family reformation. Research in the United States has shown that mixed‐nativity households live in a less segregated way than do households in which both heads are foreign born (Iceland & Nelson ). In a similar vein, it could be assumed that households with one foreign‐born head live in a more segregated way than do households without foreign‐born heads.…”

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“…None of these theories pay attention to life cycle and household composition characteristics (Iceland, Goyette, Nelson, & Chan, ). However, residential mobility researchers have consistently found that someone's life cycle phase and transitions, and their household composition as a manifestation thereof, are important to understanding residential preferences and decisions (see, e.g., Clark & Dieleman, ; Clark & Onaka, ; Coulter & Scott, ; Marsh & Iceland, ).…”

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“…As these theories already use residential mobility to explain residential segregation, we believe that they should take household composition characteristics into account. With some notable exceptions (Iceland et al, ; Marsh & Iceland, ), however, studies examining segregation tend to overlook the characteristics of ethnic‐minority household composition. To address this gap and test the association between household composition characteristics and ethnic minorities' residential segregation, we use a conditional logit model to analyse households formed by young adults of Moroccan descent—Moroccans are the largest ethnic‐minority group in Belgium—in Belgium's two largest cities, Antwerp and Brussels.…”

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Ethnic residential segregation: A matter of ethnic minority household characteristics?

Coenen

Verhaeghe²,

Putte

2019

Population Space and Place

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Despite the importance of household characteristics for residential mobility, these characteristics are seldom considered in research on ethnic residential segregation. This study seeks to fill this gap when focusing on the residential behaviour of ethnic minorities and the constraints they face on the housing market. We use conditional logit modelling to analyse the Belgian Census 2011 in order to investigate the relationship between, on the one hand, the presence of children and marital status and, on the other hand, living in neighbourhoods with many coethnics in Brussels and Antwerp, focusing on households formed by young adults of Moroccan descent. We find no association for the presence of children but find clear differences based on marital status. Unmarried couples are less likely than married couples to live in neighbourhoods with many coethnics. Moreover, there appear to be gender differences: Female‐headed single‐person households are less likely than married couples to live in neighbourhoods with many coethnics, whereas male‐headed single‐person households are more likely to do so. On the basis of these results, we conclude that the existing ethnic residential segregation theories that focus on ethnic minorities should take household characteristics into account.

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“…Empirical work on how household organization and type affect segregation is relatively sparse but finds, for example, that families with children are more racially segregated than single-person households (Iceland et al 2010). Thus, changes in the way groups organize into households, such as having relatively more single-person households and fewer families with children, could change levels of segregation.…”

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Agents of Change: Mixed-Race Households and the Dynamics of Neighborhood Segregation in the United States

Ellis

Holloway

Wright

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Annals of the Association of American Geographers

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This article explores the effects of mixed-race household formation on trends in neighborhood-scale racial segregation. Census data show that these effects are nontrivial in relation to the magnitude of decadal changes in residential segregation. An agent-based model illustrates the potential long-run impacts of rising numbers of mixed-race households on measures of neighborhood-scale segregation. It reveals that high rates of mixed-race household formation will reduce residential segregation considerably. This occurs even when preferences for own-group neighbors are high enough to maintain racial separation in residential space in a Schelling-type model. We uncover a disturbing trend, however; levels of neighborhood-scale segregation of single-race households can remain persistently high even while a growing number of mixed-race households drives down the overall rate of residential segregation. Thus, the article’s main conclusion is that parsing neighborhood segregation levels by household type—single versus mixed race—is essential to interpret correctly trends in the spatial separation of racial groups, especially when the fraction of households that are mixed race is dynamic. More broadly, the article illustrates the importance of household-scale processes for urban outcomes and joins debates in geography about interscalar relationships.

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Racial and ethnic residential segregation and household structure: A research note

Cited by 36 publications

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The Racial Residential Segregation of Black Single Living Alone Households

The Racial Residential Segregation of Black Single Living Alone Households

Ethnic residential segregation: A matter of ethnic minority household characteristics?

Agents of Change: Mixed-Race Households and the Dynamics of Neighborhood Segregation in the United States

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