Immigration, Ethnic Residential Segregation or (vs.) Socioeconomic Integration in Urban Areas
A special issue of Social Sciences (ISSN 2076-0760). This special issue belongs to the section "Community and Urban Sociology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2024) | Viewed by 20450
Special Issue Editors
Interests: applied demography; human ecology; internal migration; international migration; spatial analysis (and geographic information); state and local demography; urbanization
Interests: metropolitan area; residential segregation; residential mobility; immigration; Xenophobia
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Since the end of the 20th century, the management of the economic markets has been rigorously and uncritically governed by the guidelines of the neo-liberal socio-economic model. This has resulted in a series of cyclical crises, loss of importance of the state as a regulator of social imbalances and, therefore, an accentuation of social polarisation processes (e.g., Harvey 2005; Piketty 2020; Talen and Anselin 2021). A key issue that has characterised this process is the increasing speculation in housing and its deregulation (Rodríguez-Pose and Storper 2020). The result of both aspects is the emergence of important processes in residential segregation (Monkkonen et al. 2018; van Ham et al. 2021). Clearly, residential segregation has hit the most socially vulnerable groups the hardest. In this sense, one of the groups characterised by the highest degree of socio-economic vulnerability is the population of foreign and migrant origin, especially those of non-Western origin (Benassi and Iglesias-Pascual 2022). Their weak status in the housing market usually leads them to live in poorer neighbourhoods, thus, determining their social and territorial integration process (Imeraj et al. 2020; Leclerc 2021). Starting from the premise that the notions of segregation and integration are highly dependent on the particular social group under investigation (Krysan et al. 2017), recent studies have focused on how to measure segregation in a context of increasing multi-ethnicity and its relationship with income differences (e.g., Benassi et al 2022), the relationship between segregation, education and integration of migrants (e.g., Bayona and Domingo 2021; Kauppinen et al. 2022), the dimension of environmental quality in migrant segregation (e.g., Ard et al. 2021; Martori et al. 2022) and the role of scale for analysing segregation (e.g., Marcińczak et al. 2021).
Following the recent trend in the scientific literature and adding new focuses of interest, this monographic Issue in Social Sciences proposes at least the following issues of research on the segregation and integration of the migrant population:
- Measuring residential segregation: new approaches and challenges.
- Residential segregation, migration and access to real estate market and social infrastructure as an indicator of social integration.
- Immigration, residential segregation and school failure.
- Ethnic residential segregation and environmental quality.
- Cities, touristification and residential segregation of the migrant population. The social invisibility of the labour force.
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Bayona‐i‐Carrasco, Jordi, and Andreu Domingo. 2021. School segregation of migrants and their descendants in a dual school system: The case of Barcelona. Population, Space and Place 27(8): e2446.
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Dr. Federico Benassi
Dr. Ricardo Iglesias-Pascual
Prof. Dr. Salvatore Strozza
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