Houston's Emerging Exposure between African Americans and Whites: Evidence of Spatial Assimilation or Place Stratification?

2013 ◽  
Vol 19 (5) ◽  
pp. 633-643 ◽  
Author(s):  
Warren Waren
Keyword(s):  
African Americans ◽  
Spatial Assimilation ◽  
Place Stratification

Residential Patterns across Generations of New Immigrant Groups

2009 ◽  
Vol 52 (3) ◽  
pp. 409-428 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric Fong ◽  
Feng Hou
Keyword(s):  
Minority Groups ◽  
Metropolitan Areas ◽  
Visible Minority ◽  
Residential Patterns ◽  
Spatial Assimilation ◽  
Socioeconomic Resources ◽  
Previous Generation ◽  
Place Stratification ◽  
Residential Integration ◽  
New Immigrant

This article explores residential patterns across generations of new immigrant groups. The discussion is situated in a multi-ethnic context. The analysis is based on data from the 2001 Canadian census and focuses on three visible minority groups in the four largest metropolitan areas of Canada. In line with the spatial assimilation perspective, the authors found that visible minority groups reside in neighborhoods where, over generations, as the proportion of whites increases, the proportions of their own group and other minority groups decline. The findings also show support that socioeconomic resources are positively related to residential integration and that each successive generation is more efficient than the previous generation in translating socioeconomic resources. However, echoing the place stratification perspective, variations in the effect of socioeconomic resources within each group and generation have been documented. Taken together, the results suggest that the factors contributing to residential integration are more complicated in a multi-ethnic context.

scholarly journals A Critical Intervention for Urban Sociology

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Korver-Glenn ◽  
Prentiss Dantzler ◽  
Junia Howell
Keyword(s):  
Urban Communities ◽  
Urban Sociology ◽  
Empirical Work ◽  
Chicago School ◽  
Valuable Insight ◽  
Spatial Assimilation ◽  
Racial Capitalism ◽  
Place Stratification ◽  
Critical Intervention ◽  
Future Work

U.S. urban sociology continues to be dominated by the Chicago School’s theories and methodological approaches. While yielding valuable insight regarding the importance of place, this body of work reproduces racism through explicit and implicit appeals to White-centered sensibility and desirability. In this chapter, we examine two specific Chicago School-inspired theories and related empirical work—spatial assimilation and place stratification. We draw from Du Boisian, racial capitalism, and other critical perspectives to illuminate the racial logics buoying this research. Where urban sociology underscores linear progression towards or digression from Whiteness, we emphasize urban heterogeneity and the intentional, non-linear or cyclical production of urban communities. Further, we argue that urban sociology must reckon with the racist roots of some of its most popular theories and methods, and recommend that future work explicitly center the mutually constitutive racism-capitalism-urbanization processes that have long shaped cities in the U.S. and around the world.

White and Latino Locational Attainments: Assessing the Role of Race and Resources in U.S. Metropolitan Residential Segregation

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 491-507 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amber R. Crowell ◽  
Mark Fossett
Keyword(s):  
Residential Segregation ◽  
Decomposition Analysis ◽  
Economic Resources ◽  
Group Differences ◽  
Spatial Assimilation ◽  
Locational Attainment ◽  
Stratification Theory ◽  
Socioeconomic Assimilation ◽  
Place Stratification

This study examines White-Latino residential segregation in six U.S. metropolitan areas using new methods to draw a connection between two dominant research traditions in the segregation literature and empirically analyze prevailing conceptual frameworks. Based on microlevel locational attainment analyses, we find that for Latinos, acculturation and socioeconomic status are positively associated with greater residential contact with Whites and thus promote lower segregation consistent with predictions of spatial assimilation theory. However, standardization and decomposition analysis reveals that a substantial portion of White-Latino segregation can be attributed to White-Latino differences in the ability to translate acculturation and socioeconomic assimilation into co-residence with Whites. Thus, consistent with predictions of place stratification theory, evidence suggests that spatial assimilation dynamics are limited by continuing race-based factors leading to the expectation that segregation will persist at moderate to high levels even after Latinos reach parity with Whites on social and economic resources that shape locational attainments. Therefore, we offer two conclusions. First, contemporary White-Latino segregation is due in part to group differences in social and economic resources that determine locational attainments and that this component of White-Latino segregation will continue to be significant so long as Whites and Latinos differ along these social and economic characteristics. Second, while spatial assimilation dynamics can promote partial reductions in White-Latino segregation, we expect segregation to continue at moderate to high levels because place stratification dynamics limit Latino residential integration even when Latinos and Whites are comparable on relevant resources.

scholarly journals Understanding the Neighborhood Concentration of Affluent Black Households in the 1990s

Urban Science ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 6
Author(s):  
Ron Malega
Keyword(s):  
Explanatory Power ◽  
The United States ◽  
Neighborhood Socioeconomic Status ◽  
Spatial Assimilation ◽  
Stratification Theory ◽  
Census 2000 ◽  
Regional Location ◽  
Nuanced Understanding ◽  
Place Stratification ◽  
Black Households

This study examines the intersection of race, class, and place by exploring the neighborhood concentration of affluent black households in the United States during the 1990s using Census 2000 data. It adds to the literature seeking a more nuanced understanding of the black community. The author assesses the theories of spatial assimilation and place stratification in understanding the processes associated with the neighborhood-level concentration of affluent black households. Regression analyses reveal that, in general, such concentrations are positively associated with black neighborhood socioeconomic status and negatively associated with white status. Furthermore, neighborhood quality and demographic factors are important for understanding the geography of affluent black households. Additionally, the metropolitan characteristics of residential segregation, racial composition, and regional location affect the neighborhood concentration of affluent black households. Findings suggest place stratification theory provides greater explanatory power than spatial assimilation theory for understanding the neighborhood concentration of affluent black households.

Trajectories of Spatial Assimilation or Place Stratification? A Typology of Residence and Workplace Histories of Newly Arrived Migrants in Sweden

2022 ◽  
pp. 019791832110373
Author(s):  
Guilherme Kenji Chihaya ◽  
Szymon Marcińczak ◽  
Magnus Strömgren ◽  
Urban Lindgren ◽  
Tiit Tammaru
Keyword(s):  
Sequence Analysis ◽  
Housing Market ◽  
Housing Markets ◽  
Host Population ◽  
Pivotal Role ◽  
Spatial Assimilation ◽  
Stratification Theory ◽  
Place Stratification ◽  
Over Time

In most societies, resources and opportunities are concentrated in neighborhoods and workplaces occupied by the host population. The spatial assimilation and place stratification theories propose trajectories (the sequences of events) leading to minority and migrant access to or exclusion from these advantageous places. However, most previous research on these theories did not ask whether such theorized trajectories occur. We apply sequence analysis to decade-long residence and workplace histories of newly arrived migrants in Sweden to identify a typology of combined residence-work trajectories. The seven types of trajectories in our typology are characterized by varying degrees of proximity to the host population in residential neighborhoods and workplaces and by different patterns of change in such proximity over time. The pivotal role of socioeconomic gains in spatial assimilation, posited by the namesake theory, is not supported, as we do not find that migrant employment precedes residence alongside the host population. The importance of housing-market discrimination for migrants’ exclusion from host-dominated spaces, posited by place stratification theory, is only weakly supported, as we find that migrants from less affluent countries accumulate disadvantage over time, likely due to discrimination in both the labor and housing markets. Our findings also underscore the need for new theories explaining migrant residential outcomes which apply to contexts where migrant-dense neighborhoods are still forming.

scholarly journals Muslim/Non-Muslim Locational Attainment in Philadelphia: A New Fault Line in Residential Inequality?

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Samantha Friedman ◽  
Recai Yucel ◽  
Colleen E. Wynn ◽  
Joseph Gibbons
Keyword(s):  
Health Management ◽  
Household Survey ◽  
Median Income ◽  
Fault Line ◽  
Spatial Assimilation ◽  
Locational Attainment ◽  
Pooled Data ◽  
Residential Stratification ◽  
Residential Inequality ◽  
Place Stratification

This study examines Muslim/non-Muslim disparities in locational attainment. We pooled data from the 2004, 2006, and 2008 waves of the Public Health Management Corporation’s Southeastern Pennsylvania Household Survey. These data contain respondents’ religious identities and are geocoded at the census-tract level, allowing us to merge American Community Survey data and examine neighborhood-level outcomes to gauge respondents’ locational attainment. Net of controls, our multivariate analyses reveal that among blacks and nonblacks, Muslims live in neighborhoods that have significantly lower shares of whites and greater representations of blacks. Among blacks, Muslims are significantly less likely to reside in suburbs, relative to non-Muslims. The Muslim disadvantages for blacks and nonblacks in neighborhood poverty and neighborhood median income, however, become insignificant. Our results provide support for the tenets of the spatial assimilation and place stratification models and suggest that Muslim/non-Muslim disparities in locational attainment comprise a new fault line in residential stratification.

Hispanic Segregation in Metropolitan America: Exploring the Multiple Forms of Spatial Assimilation

2008 ◽  
Vol 73 (5) ◽  
pp. 741-765 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Iceland ◽  
Kyle Anne Nelson
Keyword(s):  
African Americans ◽  
Residential Segregation ◽  
Metropolitan Areas ◽  
Foreign Born ◽  
Multiple Forms ◽  
Multivariate Models ◽  
Related Factors ◽  
Spatial Assimilation ◽  
Restricted Use ◽  
Group Characteristics

This article investigates patterns of spatial assimilation of Hispanics in U.S. metropolitan areas. Using restricted-use data from the 2000 Census, we calculate Hispanics' levels of residential segregation by race and nativity and then estimate multivariate models to examine the association of group characteristics with these patterns. To obtain a more nuanced view of spatial assimilation, we use alternative reference groups in the segregation calculations-Anglos, African Americans, and Hispanics not of the same race. We find that Hispanics experience multiple and concurrent forms of spatial assimilation across generations: U.S.-born White, Black, and other-race Hispanics tend to be less segregated from Anglos, African Americans, and U.S.-born Hispanics not of the same race than are the foreign-born of the respective groups. We find some exceptions, suggesting that race continues to influence segregation despite the general strength of assimilation-related factors: Black Hispanics display high levels of segregation from Anglos, and U.S.-born Black Hispanics are no less segregated from other Hispanic groups than are their foreign-born counterparts.

New Faces, New Neighbors? How Latino Population Growth and Lending Expansion Shapes the Neighborhood Racial and Ethnic Composition for White and Latino Homebuyers

2021 ◽  
pp. 153568412098134
Author(s):  
Allen Hyde ◽  
Mary J. Fischer
Keyword(s):  
Metropolitan Areas ◽  
Ethnic Composition ◽  
Geographic Mobility ◽  
Assimilation Theory ◽  
Spatial Assimilation ◽  
Stratification Theory ◽  
Home Mortgage Disclosure Act ◽  
Housing Boom ◽  
Place Stratification ◽  
Home Mortgage

Fueled by increased socioeconomic status (SES), geographic mobility, and access to lending, Latino home buying expanded during the recent housing boom. However, less is known about the types of neighborhoods Latino homebuyers accessed during this time. To address this gap, we explore how SES, mortgage type, and the metropolitan racial and ethnic context affected the racial and ethnic composition of neighborhoods for new white and Latino homeowners. We use data from the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act to explore these processes in 317 U.S. metropolitan areas from 2000 to 2010. Overall, we find evidence supporting both spatial assimilation theory and place stratification theory: while increased SES and loan amounts led to more white neighbors for both white and Latino homebuyers, subprime loans and the racial and ethnic context of metropolitan areas continue to constrain neighborhood attainment for Latinos.

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