Racial and Ethnic Residential Segregation by Family Structure and the Presence of Children in Metropolitan America

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Samantha Friedman ◽  
Colleen E. Wynn ◽  
Hui-shien Tsao
Keyword(s):  
Family Structure ◽  
Residential Segregation ◽  
Ethnic Residential Segregation

scholarly journals Assessing the Role of Family Structure in Racial/Ethnic Residential Isolation

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (9) ◽  
pp. 160
Author(s):  
Colleen Wynn ◽  
Samantha Friedman
Keyword(s):  
Family Structure ◽  
Residential Segregation ◽  
Married Couple ◽  
Small Body ◽  
Ethnic Segregation ◽  
Fair Housing ◽  
White Families ◽  
Ethnic Residential Segregation ◽  
Socioeconomic And Demographic Factors ◽  
Racial Ethnic

Fifty years after the passage of the Fair Housing Act, racial/ethnic residential segregation and discrimination persist in the housing market. In 2018, the National Fair Housing Alliance reported that the third and fifth largest discrimination complaints are made on the bases of familial status and sex, respectively. However, housing research has largely ignored how family structure may shape patterns of racial/ethnic residential segregation. By assessing residential isolation, our analyses add to the small body of literature exploring racial/ethnic segregation by family structure using data from the 1990–2010 decennial censuses and the 2006–2010 American Community Survey (ACS) drawn from the Neighborhood Change Database (NCDB) and the National Historical Geographic Information System (NHGIS). Our results reveal that white, married-couple families experience the greatest levels of residential isolation, net of controls for relevant socioeconomic and demographic factors. In addition, our within racial/ethnic group analyses indicate that black, female-headed families experience significantly more isolation than their married-couple counterparts, while the reverse is true for Hispanic and white families. Our results provide support for the tenets of the place stratification model and suggest researchers should consider family structure when assessing racial/ethnic residential segregation as race/ethnicity and family structure interact to shape housing outcomes in metropolitan America.

scholarly journals Racial/Ethnic Residential Segregation and Self-Reported Hypertension Among US- and Foreign-Born Blacks in New York City

2011 ◽  
Vol 24 (8) ◽  
pp. 904-910 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. White ◽  
L. N. Borrell ◽  
D. W. Wong ◽  
S. Galea ◽  
G. Ogedegbe ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Residential Segregation ◽  
York City ◽  
Foreign Born ◽  
Ethnic Residential Segregation ◽  
Racial Ethnic

scholarly journals International Newcomers and their direct, indirect and cumulative effect on Ethnic Residential Segregation: A Dynamic Assessment

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eduardo Tapia
Keyword(s):  
Direct Effect ◽  
Residential Segregation ◽  
Residential Mobility ◽  
Dynamic Assessment ◽  
Cumulative Effect ◽  
Cumulative Effects ◽  
Mobility Patterns ◽  
Residential Areas ◽  
Ethnic Residential Segregation ◽  
Dynamic Perspective

Previous studies show households' selective residential mobility as a principal cause of residential segregation. However, a less studied aspect of residential segregation has been how foreign newcomers affect those mobility patterns and consequently residential segregation trends. This paper extends previous investigations by evaluating the effects of newly arrived immigrants on ethnic residential segregation from a dynamic perspective. Unlike previous studies, this study analyzes newcomers' neighborhood choices together with their direct, indirect, and cumulative effects on segregation. Results show that immigrant settlements not only exacerbate residential segregation by landing in already segregated areas (direct effect) but by triggering segregating promoting movements in households living in destination neighborhoods (undirect effect). Both results contribute to producing a higher level of segregation compared with a situation where newcomers would have been randomly allocated across the residential areas (cumulative effect). These findings highlight the importance of reception strategies in host cities to palliate segregation levels and demonstrates its cumulative effects.

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