Residential Segregation and Ethnic Enterprise in U.S. Metropolitan Areas

This study, based on 2001 Canadian census data for 16 census metropolitan areas, explores residential segregation among eight religious groups. We include non–Christian religious groups to reflect the emerging religious diversity of Canadian society. Our study provides the first comprehensive comparison of the residential patterns of people affiliated with major religious groups in Canada. We argue that each religion is associated with unique sets of religious institutional behaviors, which in turn shape each religious group's relationships with other religious groups. In this study, we identify four religious institutional behaviors that can affect the residential segregation of various religious groups: institutional orientation of religious community services, subcultural identity, religious identity, and discrimination. The findings indicate that these religious institutional behaviors are related to the residential segregation patterns of different religious groups.

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Change in Racial and Ethnic Residential Inequality in American Cities, 1970–2000

City and Community ◽

10.1111/j.1540-6040.2007.00231.x ◽

2007 ◽

Vol 6 (4) ◽

pp. 335-365 ◽

Cited By ~ 70

Author(s):

Jeffrey M. Timberlake ◽

John Iceland

Keyword(s):

Socioeconomic Status ◽

Residential Segregation ◽

Time Horizon ◽

Metropolitan Areas ◽

Neighborhood Socioeconomic Status ◽

Spatial Assimilation ◽

Location Patterns ◽

Ethnic Residential Segregation ◽

Residential Inequality ◽

American Cities

We complement and extend research on change in racial and ethnic residential segregation by estimating determinants of change from 1970 to 2000 in four measures of residential inequality—dissimilarity, entropy, isolation, and net difference—between American Whites, Blacks, Asians, and Latinos. Because we use a longer time horizon and multiple measures, our findings clearly demonstrate some convergence in residential location patterns across groups, indicating gradual spatial assimilation in U.S. metropolitan areas. Although Blacks continue to be more segregated than either Asians or Latinos, residential inequality has declined more rapidly for Blacks than for the other two groups, particularly in terms of neighborhood socioeconomic status. We also find that all three groups, but particularly Asians, have been converting income gains relative to Whites into improved neighborhood socioeconomic status more than into increased residential integration with Whites.

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The Dimensions of Racial Inequality: Occupational and Residential Segregation Across Metropolitan Areas in the United States

City and Community ◽

10.1046/j.1535-6841.2003.00058.x ◽

2003 ◽

Vol 2 (4) ◽

pp. 313-333 ◽

Cited By ~ 13

Author(s):

Seth Ovadia

Keyword(s):

Residential Segregation ◽

Racial Inequality ◽

Census Data ◽

Metropolitan Areas ◽

The United States ◽

Zero Order ◽

Structural Systems ◽

Exogenous Factor ◽

Empirical Examination ◽

American Society

Residential and occupational segregation are two structural systems that perpetuate the disadvantaged status of blacks in American society. Despite extensive research on both these topics, there has been little empirical examination as to whether they are independent systems or both part of a larger monolithic system of racial inequality. An analysis of 1990 Census data for 261 metropolitan areas shows that there is a negative zero‐order correlation between the two forms of segregation. However, controlling for the size of the population accounts for the negative correlation. Net of this exogenous factor, the correlation between the two forms of segregation is not statistically significant. This suggests that for individuals, the issue of racial inequality is one of tradeoffs between forms of disadvantage as one moves from city to city. For policymakers, these results indicate that urban racial inequality is multidimensional, requiring different strategies for different manifestations.

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Poverty Suburbanization: Theoretical Insights and Empirical Analyses

Social Inclusion ◽

10.17645/si.v3i2.120 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 3 (2) ◽

pp. 71-90 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

Kenya L. Covington

Keyword(s):

Residential Segregation ◽

Metropolitan Areas ◽

Housing Affordability ◽

Factors Associated ◽

Urban Political Economy ◽

Urban Core ◽

The Poor ◽

Percentage Points ◽

Major Metropolitan Area ◽

Growth And Change

Today almost every major metropolitan area in the U.S. has experienced rising poverty at a rate that surpasses its urban core (Kneebone & Berube, 2013, p. 2). Poverty suburbanization has accelerated about 3.3 percentage points over the last decade. In this article, factors associated with the growing share of poor in suburbs in the 100 largest metropolitan areas were examined. The analysis sought to address the overarching question: what metropolitan factors are associated with poverty suburbanization? Poverty suburbanization growth rates and temporal changes in metropolitan level factors for 2000 and 2008 are highlighted. Change regression results reveal important macro level and within suburb effects illuminating recent changes in the spatial distribution of the poor. Positive changes in housing affordability appear to open up access to suburban neighborhoods, while metropolitan job decentralization and residential segregation have countervailing effects on the suburbanization of the poor. Findings from this paper suggest that it is appropriate to place the suburbanization of poverty in the contemporary period within an urban political economy framework of urban growth and change.

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Residential segregation of metropolitan areas of Warsaw, Berlin and Paris

Geographia Polonica ◽

10.7163/gpol.0051 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 89 (2) ◽

pp. 141-168 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Barbara Jaczewska ◽

Anna Grzegorczyk

Keyword(s):

Residential Segregation ◽

Metropolitan Areas

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Racial residential segregation and economic disparity jointly exacerbate the COVID-19 fatality in large American cities

10.31234/osf.io/xgbpy ◽

2020 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Qinggang Yu ◽

Cristina Salvador ◽

Irene Melani ◽

Martha Berg ◽

Enrique Neblett ◽

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Keyword(s):

Income Inequality ◽

Residential Segregation ◽

Urban Areas ◽

Metropolitan Areas ◽

Policy Implications ◽

Current Evidence ◽

Structural Inequality ◽

Racial Residential Segregation ◽

Economic Disparity ◽

The U.S

The disproportionately high rates of both infections and deaths of underprivileged racial minorities in the U.S. (including Blacks and Hispanics) during the current COVID-19 pandemic show that structural inequality can be lethal. However, the nature of this structural inequality is poorly understood. Here, we hypothesized that two structural features of urban areas in the U.S. (racial residential segregation and income inequality) contribute to numerous health-compromising conditions, which, in turn, exacerbate COVID-19 fatalities. These two features may be particularly lethal when combined. To test this hypothesis, we examined the growth rate of both confirmed COVID-19 cases and deaths in an early 30-day period of the outbreak in the counties located in each of the 100 largest metropolitan areas in the U.S. The growth curve for cases and deaths was steeper in counties located in metropolitan areas that residentially segregate Blacks and Hispanics. Moreover, this effect of racial residential segregation was augmented by income inequality within each county. The current evidence highlights the role of racial and economic disparity in producing the devastating human toll in the current pandemic. It also offers important policy implications for making virus-resilient cities.

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