Urban Restructuring, Polarisation and Immigrants' Opportunities: The Case of Russian Immigrants in Tel-Aviv

Menahem, Gila

doi:10.1080/0042098992926

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“…In the economic censuses, there are 18 socio-economic categories based on economic sectors as listed in Table 1. Though economic sectors are different from occupations in definition, they have frequently been classified into four large occupational groups in previous studies (Baum, 1997;Hamnett, 1994a;Hamnett, 1994b;Menahem, 1999). This commonly used classification is also adopted in this case study.…”

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How social structure changes in Chinese global cities: Synthesizing globalization, migration and institutional factors in Beijing

Shi

Liu

Musterd

et al. 2017

Cities

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Recent studies on the social structural change in global cities have recognized globalization, migration, and institutional factors as three main forces underlying this process. However, effects of these factors have rarely been synthetically examined and the social structure of emerging Chinese global cities under typical influence of all these factors has yet not been systematically scrutinized in previous literature. To fill these gaps, we firstly established an encompassing framework to incorporate the effects of these logically interconnected factors and then applied it to Beijing, the capital and an emerging global city of China. Using the economic and population census data, we investigated the social structural changes of migrants and local residents separately over the past decade. The results demonstrated a clear trend of professionalization with a considerable growth of 'the upper class' coupled with relative shrinkages of 'the middle and lower classes' in Beijing. In this case, economic globalization and the large immigration did not result in social polarization as conventional wisdom suggested because the localized welfare system successfully prevented local residents from engaging in 'the lower class' on the one hand and the developmental state intentionally upgraded the occupational structure with a selective openness regulation on the other. Beneath this overall professionalization trend, the social gap between migrants and the locals was not reduced but widened despite their

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Section: The Overall Social Structural Change In Beijingmentioning

confidence: 99%

How social structure changes in Chinese global cities: Synthesizing globalization, migration and institutional factors in Beijing

Shi

Liu

Musterd

et al. 2017

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“…While this became harmful to the immediate and nearby neighborhoods (Rotbard, 2005), the cheap local apartments soon housed a growing number of impoverished legal and illegal labor migrants. 22 Poverty, decay, and street crime thus intensified (Cohen & Margalit, 2015;Kemp & Raijman, 2004;Menahem, 1999;Schnell, 1999), not too far from the elitist regeneration strip along Rothschild Boulevard, on the old railroad's north bank.…”

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Planning allocations and the stubborn north–south divide in Tel Aviv–Jaffa

Margalit

Vertes

2015

Planning Theory & Practice

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Several master plans have attempted to lessen the divide between the poor southern neighborhoods of Tel Aviv -Jaffa and the well-off central and northern ones. We compared the planning visions, the main policies and detailed schemes, financing methods, and actual implementation efforts. We found that each planning generation has promoted different development locations, regulations, and allocation methods, and yet implementation has generally been much more durable and with superior socio-spatial impacts in the more affluent areas. To analyze and explain these findings we studied planning allocations in the light of ideas of distributive justice and of urban regime practice. We found that while the welfare state's direct allocation of housing and infrastructure for communities and individuals was not really equal, the later indirect allocations by neoliberal regimes mainly stimulated market forces in the more affluent or attractive areas. We also found that while planning allocation varied in different neighborhoods, the pace and order of planning and realization became crucial elements in urban inequality.

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“…In addition, it has been long documented that immigrants and ethnic minorities in the USA are highly segmented in particular occupations and industrial sectors (Borjas, 2006; Ettlinger and Kwon, 1994; Logan et al, 1994; Mehahem, 1999; Wang, 2004). Some studies have argued that, because of disadvantaged social status and labour market discrimination, immigrant and ethnic minority workers are more likely to concentrate in the secondary labour market that is characterised by low pay, poor working conditions, instability and lack of upward mobility (Fortuijn et al, 1998; Teixeira et al, 2007).…”

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Immigrant underemployment across US metropolitan areas: From a spatial perspective

Lysenko

2013

Urban Studies

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A significant number of immigrants fail to realise their full potential in the US labour markets, as evidenced by those working in occupations requiring skill levels far below their own level of education. While previous studies have studied immigrant underemployment with a focus on individual labour force characteristics, the spatial dimensions of immigrant underemployment have been largely overlooked. Using microdata from the 2006–2010 American Community Survey and a multilevel research design, this study examines the interaction of metropolitan labour market characteristics with individual labour force’s underemployment experiences, and explores how these interaction effects differ between the foreign-born and the native-born. Results suggest that the probability of individual labour force’s underemployment within any metropolitan area is highly contingent on metropolitan labour market characteristics including ethnic diversity, the proportion of its foreign-born population, the economic structure, and the level of educational attainment of the labour force, in addition to individual characteristics.

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Urban Restructuring, Polarisation and Immigrants' Opportunities: The Case of Russian Immigrants in Tel-Aviv

Cited by 5 publications

References 16 publications

How social structure changes in Chinese global cities: Synthesizing globalization, migration and institutional factors in Beijing

How social structure changes in Chinese global cities: Synthesizing globalization, migration and institutional factors in Beijing

Planning allocations and the stubborn north–south divide in Tel Aviv–Jaffa

Immigrant underemployment across US metropolitan areas: From a spatial perspective

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