Ethnic Spatial Segregation in European Cities

ISBN-13: 9780367729202 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 226 str.

Hans Skifter Andersen

Opis

This book provides a model of how to understand the causes of ethnic residential segregation, across Western European countries and the USA.

Spis treści

1. Introduction and summary

2. Housing preferences and choices of ethnic minorities

3. Preferences for location among ethnic minorities

4. Spatial assimilation – the development in immigrants’ locational preferences and choices with duration of stay

5. Selective migration of ethnic minorities and natives in connection with ethnic neighbourhoods

6. The effects of housing policy and housing markets on housing options and choices of ethnic minorities

7. The importance of urban policies and the spatial distribution of housing

8. Ethnic segregation and its causes across European welfare states

O autorze

Hans Skifter Andersen is adjunct professor at Danish Building Research Institute, Aalborg University, Denmark. He has for more than 20 years conducted research on segregation and deprived neighbourhoods and in the last 10 years worked with ethnic segregation and its causes, among others in connection with the NORFACE research programme on migration.