Dispersing the Ghetto

Glazier, Jack

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“…Riis and others viewed these concentrations with alarm not only because of their appalling poverty but also because of their visible foreignness. The nativist reaction to enclaves distressed some Jewish immigrant advocates to the point that they encouraged the dispersal of new arrivals from Eastern Europe away from New York's ghettos (Glazier 1998).…”

Section: The Place Of Residence In Segregation Research: a Brief Historymentioning

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Work Together, Live Apart? Geographies of Racial and Ethnic Segregation at Home and at Work

Ellis

Wright

Parks

2004

Annals of the Association of American Geographers

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When scholars map the urban geography of racial and ethnic segregation, they privilege the time when people are at home. When workers commute, however, the tract of residence of one group often becomes the tract of employment of others. It follows that an exclusive focus on the residential geographies of racial groups erases the presence of others who work in those neighborhoods. Not only does this analytical orientation create a false impression of a city's racialized spaces as fixed, but it also misleadingly characterizes neighborhoods as the domain of those who live, rather than work, in them. In addressing this oversight, the study compares levels of residential and work tract segregation for native-born and immigrant groups in a large U.S. metropolitan area, Los Angeles. The analysis reveals that segregation by work tract is considerably lower than by residential tract, suggesting more intergroup interaction takes place during working hours than at home. The difference in segregation between residence and work is very large in the case of native-born whites and Mexican immigrants. These two groups maintain substantially different residential geographies but are quite likely to work in the same tracts. Such work tract complementarities are gender sensitive; they are much more likely between native-born white and Mexican men than between women of these groups. This gendered difference holds across all groups, with men more likely to work in tracts with men from other groups than women with women from other groups. The study offers new perspective on diurnal shifts in urban racial segregation. We conclude by speculating that reduced segregation at workplaces factors into recent increases in rates of interracial partnering, which may, in turn, ultimately leverage change in residential segregation.

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Section: The Place Of Residence In Segregation Research: a Brief Historymentioning

confidence: 99%

Work Together, Live Apart? Geographies of Racial and Ethnic Segregation at Home and at Work

Ellis

Wright

Parks

2004

Annals of the Association of American Geographers

272

207

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“…Some nineteenth‐century nativists went as far as to conclude that America's largest cities contained the two biggest threats to their idealized Jeffersonian nation: industrialization and alien labor (Higham, 1988). U.S. resident Jewish groups were so sensitive to issues of clustering that they actively tried to disperse newly arrived Eastern European Jews from urban ghettos for fear that mass spatial concentration would stoke the fires of American anti‐Semitism (Glazier, 1998).…”

Section: Space Migration and Immigrant Incorporation In The Usmentioning

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1.5 Generation Internal Migration in the U.S.: Dispersion from States of Immigration?

Ellis

Goodwin-White

2006

International Migration Review

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The issue of immigrant spatial concentration and the possibilities for immigrant dispersion through migration features in at least three interrelated debates about immigration. First, the ethnic enclave literature centers on the question of whether spatial concentration improves or harms the economic well‐being of immigrants. Second, spatial assimilation theory links immigrant relocation away from residential enclaves to socioeconomic gains. Although framed at an intra‐urban scale, we suggest that similar assimilation logics infuse thinking and expectations about immigrant settlement and spatial mobility at other scales. And third, immigrant clustering links to anxieties about the threats posed by non‐European origin newcomers to the traditional cultural fabric of the nation. In the current wave of immigration, research on questions of settlement geography and spatial mobility has so far been restricted to the first generation. But as the current wave of immigration matures there is a growing population of adults who are the children of immigrants. This article investigates the migration behavior of these adult children, specifically the 1.5 generation, seeking to answer the question of whether they will remain in the states in which their parent's generation settled or move on. It also assesses whether the out‐migration response of the 1.5 generation in states of immigrant concentration is similar to that of their parent's generation or the U.S.‐born population.

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“…Some nineteenth century nativists went as far as to conclude that America's largest cities contained the two biggest threats to their idealized Jeffersonian nation: industrialization and alien labor (Higham 1988). US resident Jewish groups were so sensitive to issues of clustering that they actively tried to disperse newly arrived Eastern European Jews from urban ghettos for fear that mass spatial concentration would stoke the fires of American anti-Semitism (Glazier 1998).…”

Section: Space Migration and Immigrant Incorporation In The Usmentioning

confidence: 99%

1.5 Generation Internal Migration in the Us: Dispersion from States of Immigration?

Ellis,

Goodwin-White

2006

SSRN Journal

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Dispersing the Ghetto

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Work Together, Live Apart? Geographies of Racial and Ethnic Segregation at Home and at Work

Work Together, Live Apart? Geographies of Racial and Ethnic Segregation at Home and at Work

1.5 Generation Internal Migration in the U.S.: Dispersion from States of Immigration?

1.5 Generation Internal Migration in the Us: Dispersion from States of Immigration?

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