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 Measuring the changing pattern of ethnic segregation in England and Wales with Consumer Registers

2020 ◽  
pp. 239980832091977
Author(s):  
Tian Lan ◽  
Jens Kandt ◽  
Paul Longley
Keyword(s):  
Residential Segregation ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Ethnic Segregation ◽  
Time Intervals ◽  
England And Wales ◽  
Ethnic Residential Segregation ◽  
Ethnic Classification ◽  
Changing Patterns ◽  
Annual Resolution

Analysis of changing patterns of ethnic residential segregation is usually framed by the coarse categorisations of ethnicity used in censuses and other large-scale public sector surveys and by the infrequent time intervals at which such surveys are conducted. In this paper, we use names-based classification of Consumer Registers to investigate changing degrees of segregation in England and Wales over the period 1997–2016 at annual resolution. We find that names-based ethnic classification of the individuals that make up Consumer Registers provides reliable estimates of the residential patterning of different ethnic groups and the degree to which they are segregated. Building upon this finding, we explore more detailed segregation patterns and trends of finer groups at annual resolutions and discover some unexpected trends that have hitherto remained unrecorded by Census-based studies. We conclude that appropriately processed Consumer Registers hold considerable potential to contribute to various domains of urban geography and policy.

Segregation and the Perpetuation of Disadvantage

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Douglas S. Massey
Keyword(s):  
Residential Segregation ◽  
Theoretical Work ◽  
First Century ◽  
Social Mechanisms ◽  
Ethnic Segregation ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The University ◽  
Work Done ◽  
Racial Ethnic

This article examines how segregation contributes to the perpetuation of disadvantage over time and across generations. It first traces the historical origins of segregation and reviews early substantive and theoretical work done on the subject at the University of Chicago. It then considers the most commonly used measure of segregation as well as the social mechanisms by which residential segregation is produced, with particular emphasis on the paradigmatic case of African Americans in the twentieth century. It also discusses newer mechanisms that have been advanced to promote racial-ethnic segregation in the twenty-first century and how it fosters socioeconomic inequality through the spatial concentration of poverty. Finally, it describes current levels and trends with respect to both racial and class segregation in cities around the world.

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