Public Housing and Residential Segregation of Immigrants in France, 1968-1999

Verdugo, Grégory

doi:10.3917/pope.1101.0169

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“…However, public housing inhabitants and immigrants in particular are much less mobile than average (Gobillon, 2001). In addition, the share of non-European immigrants living in public housing does not decrease much with the time spent in France (Verdugo, 2011b). These elements suggest there is a significant risk that immigrants in public housing may be trapped in cities with unfavourable labour market prospects.…”

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“…In Amsterdam, more than 80% of Turkish and Moroccan immigrants lived in public housing in 1990 (Musterd and Deurloo, 1997), and in London, 40% of foreign-born residents were social tenants (Rutter and Latorre, 2008). In France, these rates are particularly high among non-European immigrants; 50% of immigrants from Algeria and Morocco lived in public housing in 1999 (Verdugo, 2011b).…”

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Public housing magnets: public housing supply and immigrants’ location choices

Verdugo¹

2015

J Econ Geogr

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Public housing magnets: public housing supply and immigrants’ location choices

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2015

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“…Rhein (1998:431) argues that the commune level is relevant for -evaluating the differential impacts of housing and urban policies upon social structure at the national as well as at the municipal level.‖ Even though some studies show that within-commune heterogeneity has increased in recent years, this heterogeneity is still on a smaller scale than in the United States. A few studies have compared measures of segregation using the IRIS and commune divisions in the 1999 census and found similar patterns of ethnic segregation (Verdugo 2011).…”

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“…Due to limitations in data availability, studies have only recently provided information regarding the magnitude of ethnic segregation in France (Pan Ké Shon 2009;Préteceille 2009;Rathelot 2012;Safi 2009;Verdugo 2011). For example, Safi (2009) computed dissimilarity indices for the eight largest French cities using five subsequent censuses (from 1968 to 1999).…”

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Local Ethnic Composition and Natives’ and Immigrants’ Geographic Mobility in France, 1982–1999

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Safi

2013

Am Sociol Rev

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This article provides empirical results on patterns of native and immigrant geographic mobility in France. Using longitudinal data, we measure mobility from one French municipality (commune) to another over time and estimate the effect of the initial municipality's ethnic composition on the probability of moving out. These data allow us to use panel techniques to correct for biases related to selection based on geographic and individual unobservables. Our findings tend to discredit the hypothesis of a -white flight‖ pattern in residential mobility dynamics in France. Some evidence does show ethnic avoidance mechanisms in natives' relocating. We also find a strong negative and highly robust effect of co-ethnics' presence on immigrants' geographic mobility. Keywords geographic mobility, white flight, ethnic clustering, ethnic preferences, contextual variables Studies of ethnicity have lacked scientific and political legitimacy for decades in France, but French urban sociology is increasingly concerned with this issue.1 During the 2005 riots, black and Arab youth in the French suburbs were primarily depicted in violent images. The media and some politicians linked the riots to immigrants' failed assimilation and the rise of communitarianism in France. At the same time, scholars are increasingly using ghettoization terminology, usually regarded as specific to the U.S. context, to describe French urban dynamics. This debate has lacked evidence regarding the extent to which neighborhood ethnic characteristics are driving geographic mobility.We seek to describe natives' and immigrants' 2 geographic mobility in France, as well as how these groups react to neighborhoods' ethnic compositions. We build on U.S. literature concerning the effect of ethnic preferences on mobility for whites and minorities and discuss its relevance for France. Our empirical analyses rely on unique data that combine longitudinal individual information on geographic mobility with contextual aggregated socioeconomic and ethnic characteristics of residential areas. This panel data structure allows us to control for effects of individual and geographic unobserved characteristics on mobility, thus enhancing confidence in our estimates. Findings show very little support for -French white flight‖ in outmigration but some support for avoidance patterns in relocating. On the other hand, we find the ethnic clustering pattern to be highly robust. IN SEARCH OF WHITE FLIGHT: UNDERLYING HYPOTHESES AND LIMITATIONSClassical sociologists depict geographic mobility as the channel through which ethnic segregation can lose ground (Duncan and Lieberson 1959;Park and Burgess 1921;). Geographic 2 mobility is thus seen as a sign-or an outcome-of the assimilation process (Massey and Denton 1985;South, Crowder, and Chavez 2005). Studies on patterns and trends of segregation in the United States emphasize the limitations of this framework, especially for African Americans (Iceland and Scopilliti 2008;Massey and Denton 1993). The very slow decrease in racial...

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“…In practice, most recent research on France overlooks the silent integration of many immigrants and their uneventful presence in neighbourhoods where various ethnic groups live near a majority of native-born people (Verdugo, 2011).…”

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