Research In Ethnic Segregation III: Segregation Outcomes

Abstract

This progress report is third in a series that examines the causes of segregation and the meaning and measurement of segregation. In this final report, we begin with the premise that ethnic and racial segregation carries tremendous impacts on the groups involved, altering their daily patterns and their future prospects. Yet the types of consequences that result from segregation depend on group dynamics; the social, political, and economic context; and a variety of contingent circumstances. In this essay, we review the recent literature on the outcomes of urban ethnic segregation and focus on some major themes that emerge from the literature. These themes include health and deprivation effects, how segregation can influence the group's employment prospects, how the fact of concentration may alter degrees of tolerance and intolerance, how segregation can augment levels of crime and violence, and finally the extent to which segregation influences the political and civic life of minority groups. [

On the perpetuation and contestation of racial stigma: Urban Roma in a disadvantaged neighbourhood of Szeged

“…Ethnic and/or racial segregation have a strong impact on the groups and individuals involved, strongly influencing their welfare. The nature of the impact caused by segregation strongly depends on the degree of involvement of different cultural influences at collective identity levels (Kaplan & Douzet, 2011). The segregation phenomenon occurs when specific groups be-longing to one cultural identity exist in the space of different cultural origins.…”

Measuring the geography of opportunity

“…This section (and the paper) focuses on the USA. For a good survey of segregation consequences with a global perspective, see Kaplan and Douzet (2011). 5.…”

From the City to the Suburbs: Characteristics of Suburban Neighborhoods Where Chicago Housing Choice Voucher Households Relocated

“…In Chicago and its surrounding suburbs specifically, research revealed an increase in the number of extreme poverty neighborhoods defined as 20-40% of persons living below poverty [48]. Furthermore, racial and ethnic discriminatory practices from redlining to exclusionary zoning limited the migration of low-income minority families to many suburban communities [46,50]. Despite the fact that societal attitudes have shifted regarding overt racism and segregation in the suburbs, thereby increasing suburban minority and foreign born populations, African American and Hispanic households are still more likely to live in impoverished lowincome suburban communities [43,51].…”