scholarly journals Access to transportation, residential segregation, and economic opportunity

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kuzey Yılmaz ◽  
Muharrem Yeşilırmak
Keyword(s):  
Residential Segregation ◽  
Economic Opportunity

Research Insights: How Does Residential Segregation Shape Economic Inequality, and What Can Policymakers Do about It?

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juan Pablo Chauvin ◽  
Julián Messina
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Residential Segregation ◽  
Public Transportation ◽  
Economic Inequality ◽  
Economic Opportunity ◽  
Housing Supply ◽  
Improve Access

In Latin America, average wages vary greatly between countries richest and poorest regions. Differences in average wages across neighborhoods of the same city are even more significant. Residential segregation reduces access to economic opportunity. Families in less accessible neighborhoods spend more time and money commuting, are less likely to apply to distant jobs, and are more likely to remain unemployed if they lose their job. Public transportation investments can help to improve access to economic opportunity and reduce inequality in segregated cities if they are combined with zoning policies that allow for flexible housing supply in beneficiary neighborhoods.

PERCEPTIONS OF RACE AND REGION IN THE BLACK REVERSE MIGRATION TO THE SOUTH

2013 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 155-178 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sabrina Pendergrass
Keyword(s):  
North Carolina ◽  
Residential Segregation ◽  
Regional Differences ◽  
Physical Distance ◽  
Racial Prejudice ◽  
Economic Opportunity ◽  
The South ◽  
Racial Residential Segregation ◽  
Reverse Migration ◽  
The North

AbstractThis study examines how African Americans perceive and manage race and region as they migrate to the U.S. South—a region with a tenuous image of racial prejudice. The analysis is juxtaposed to literature that provides an inconsistent view of regional differences in prejudice. Some researchers argue that regional differences in levels of prejudice are now small, while other researchers argue that the South continues to be a place of much greater racial hostility. Guided by a spatial boundaries approach and using 127 narrative interviews with Black interregional migrants to Charlotte, North Carolina, results indicate that Black migrants focus less on levels of racial prejudice across regions and focus more on six dimensions of everyday racism they consider during migration. These dimensions include—the overtness/subtlety of prejudice, verbal and physical harassment, group economic opportunity, physical distance, racial symbols, and paternalism. Among these migrants, there is no consensus that the South is more or less racially hostile than other regions. They perceive most saliently that they are trading more subtle prejudice, higher levels of racial residential segregation, and greater constraints on Black economic opportunity in the North, for more overt prejudice, greater paternalism, and exposure to Confederate symbols in the South. Patterns also emerged in perceptions of regional boundaries based on class, motivation for moving, gender, and generation. Implications for theories of race and regionalism are discussed.

Residential segregation and ethnolinguistic variation

2018 ◽  
Vol 12 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 481-501
Author(s):  
Daniel Duncan
Keyword(s):  
Residential Segregation

Village in the City: Residential Segregation in Urbanizing India

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Naveen Bharathi ◽  
Deepak V. Malghan ◽  
Andaleeb Rahman
Keyword(s):  
Residential Segregation ◽  
The City

Patterns of Social Inclusion and Exclusion Among Youth Living in Stigmatized Neighborhoods

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fabiana Espíndola Ferrer
Keyword(s):  
Social Integration ◽  
Residential Segregation ◽  
Neighborhood Effects ◽  
Social Inclusion ◽  
Urban Neighborhoods ◽  
High Poverty ◽  
Ethnographic Case Study ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
The Social

This chapter is an ethnographic case study of the social integration trajectories of youth living in two stigmatized and poor neighborhoods in Montevideo. It explains the linkages between residential segregation and social inclusion and exclusion patterns in unequal urban neighborhoods. Most empirical neighborhood research on the effects of residential segregation in contexts of high poverty and extreme stigmatization have focused on its negative effects. However, the real mechanisms and mediations influencing the so-called neighborhood effects of residential segregation are still not well understood. Scholars have yet to isolate specific neighborhood effects and their contribution to processes of social inclusion and exclusion. Focusing on the biographical experiences of youth in marginalized neighborhoods, this ethnography demonstrates the relevance of social mediations that modulate both positive and negative residential segregation effects.

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