Social Polarization and Ethnic Segregation in Moscow

Vendina, Olga

doi:10.2747/1538-7216.43.3.216

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“…Increasing residential segregation is intuitively appreciated by many as the inevitable consequence of the new order (Szelényi 1996;Węcławowicz 1998;Vendina 2002;Brade et al 2009;Smith and Timár 2010). However, some evidence to the contrary suggests that the situation might be best described as status quo (Ruoppila and Kährik 2003;Sýkora 2009;Marcińczak 2012;Marcińczak et al 2013 and2014a),…”

Section: Poverty In Transitionmentioning

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The Post-Soviet Urban Poor and Where They Live: Khrushchev-Era Blocks, “Bad” Areas, and the Vertical Dimension in Luhansk, Ukraine

Gentile

2015

Annals of the Association of American Geographers

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Using a combination of descriptive and multivariate regression methods applied on a sample survey (n=4000) conducted in Luhansk (Ukraine) during Fall 2013, this paper investigates demographic, socio-economic, housing-specific and geographical factors that predict urban poverty in countries undergoing economic, political and institutional transition from state socialism to the market with a specific focus on Ukraine. By doing so, it contributes to the literature on poverty under and after transition, which has a strong position within economics, and to the literature on the spatial expressions of poverty after state socialism, which is particularly prominent within geography. Inspired by Amartya Sen's notion that poverty contains an irreducible absolute core, as well as a relative component, this paper makes use of a poverty index based on multiple thresholds that reflect the respondents' capabilities to meet different needs. A fascinating result of this exercise is that poverty under transition is not only predicted by such classical factors as sex, personal and parental education, and socio-occupational status, but also by housing-specific details such as location in vertical space and by classical geographical factors such as relative horizontal location and neighborhood prestige. Accordingly, this paper responds to recent calls for increased sensitivity towards the third dimension of space in contemporary urbanism, while at the same time making a substantial contribution to our hitherto incomplete knowledge of the patterns and sources of urban poverty and inequality in postsocialist transition.

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Section: Poverty In Transitionmentioning

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The Post-Soviet Urban Poor and Where They Live: Khrushchev-Era Blocks, “Bad” Areas, and the Vertical Dimension in Luhansk, Ukraine

Gentile

2015

Annals of the Association of American Geographers

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“…Likewise, Moscow has added financial services to its economic profile and the Moscow stock exchange has now recovered from the economic collapse of 1998. While both Istanbul and Moscow have become basing points for global capital and headquarters cities for domestic enterprises, liberalization has also been marked by corrupt practices, informal economies and growing socio‐spatial inequality in both societies (on Moscow, see Vendina 2002; for Istanbul, see Güvenç and Işık 1996).…”

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Social and political trust in Istanbul and Moscow: a comparative analysis of individual and neighbourhood effects

Secor¹,

Ο’Loughlin²

2005

Trans Inst British Geog

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Aiming to bring local context into studies of social capital, our study uses samples of 4006 individuals in Istanbul and 3476 in Moscow using a comparable questionnaire. The stratification of each city's neighbourhoods on the basis of socio‐economic characteristics provided the basis for the sampling. Using a multilevel modelling procedure, we show both that locality matters (neighbourhood effect proved significant) and that social capital may indeed be constituted in very particular ways in illiberal democracies such as Russia and Turkey. Social and political trust are frequently thought to contribute to social capital – that is, to provide social resources upon which individuals or groups may draw for their political efficacy. Trust in fellow citizens in Istanbul exhibits a positive relationship to associational activities (joining clubs etc.), while in Moscow social trust can be explained predominantly in terms of (lower) socio‐economic status. At the same time, important similarities emerged between the two cases. For social trust, in both cities the ‘cosmopolitanization thesis’, which holds that those who associate more widely are also more trusting of fellow citizens, generally applied. Further, in both cities, residents with lower socio‐economic status (though in Moscow this is complicated by education) and lower likelihoods of engagement in direct political action were more trustful of parliament. While this is the opposite of what we have been led to expect based on Western democratic polities, it is a reasonable outcome of illiberal democratic governance operating in these two cities.

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“…Such an association would be an evident sign of the polarization of city's sociospatial structure. Our study builds upon previous research on post-socialist capitals and major citiesthe ongoing residential changes and mobility within them (Haase et al, 2012;Hess et al, 2012;Kährik et al, 2012Kährik et al, , 2012, polarization and segregation (Marcińczak, 2012;Sýkora, 2009;Vendina, 2002).…”

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“…If under state socialism housing was distributed on the priority basis according to the decision of the authorities (Gentile & Sjöberg, 2006;Hess et al, 2012;Vendina, 2002), under market conditions the residential choices of households depend on individual needs/aspirations and are limited by the available resources (Mulder & Wagner, 1998). Previous research suggests that people of the same race, ethnic origin, and social status tend to choose housing in the neighborhoods where people alike live (Musterd, Marcińczak, Van Ham, & Tammaru, 2015;Quillian, 2002;Schelling, 1972;Van Ham & Tammaru, 2016).…”

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Spatial variation of in-migration to Moscow: Testing the effect of housing market

Kashnitsky

Gunko

2016

Cities

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The collapse of state socialism and the introduction of market relationships in Central and Eastern Europe resulted in profound changes of urban development. Evidence from Central and Eastern Europe indicates that the development of a strong housing market and growing material inequalities contribute to the socio-economic polarization of city districts and residential segregation. Based on empirical data, we analyze spatial variation of migrants' first residential choices within Moscow, i.e. intensity of in-migration to a specific district. We test the theory-driven hypotheses about the association between residential choices and housing prices. Our results show that there are some areas that attract migrants of specific socio-economic status. However, housing prices do not explain a substantial share of variance in the intensities of in-migration, at least at the level of city districts; quite a strong association is only evident for foreign migrants. Thus, we find limited evidence of the Moscow' socio-spatial structure polarization due to the residential choices of migrants.

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Social Polarization and Ethnic Segregation in Moscow

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Cited by 42 publications

References 14 publications

The Post-Soviet Urban Poor and Where They Live: Khrushchev-Era Blocks, “Bad” Areas, and the Vertical Dimension in Luhansk, Ukraine

The Post-Soviet Urban Poor and Where They Live: Khrushchev-Era Blocks, “Bad” Areas, and the Vertical Dimension in Luhansk, Ukraine

Social and political trust in Istanbul and Moscow: a comparative analysis of individual and neighbourhood effects

Spatial variation of in-migration to Moscow: Testing the effect of housing market

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