“…Inhabitants of different origins do not have fundamentally different life ambitions, including the suburbanization aspiration. In the Belgian context this has not yet been specifically studied, but in other European countries it has [Clapson, 2000;Permentier & Bolt, 2006]. In Belgium, the suburbanization of migrants has long been blocked by the economic crisis of the 1970s and 1980s, which mainly hit the groups in the centre of the city [Kesteloot, 2001].…”