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.

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

Demography ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 56 (4) ◽  
pp. 1327-1348 ◽  
Author(s):  
Samantha Friedman ◽  
Recai M. Yucel ◽  
Colleen E. Wynn ◽  
Joseph R. Gibbons
Keyword(s):  
Fault Line ◽  
Locational Attainment ◽  
Residential Inequality

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.

A Comparison of Traditional and Discrete-Choice Approaches to the Analysis of Residential Mobility and Locational Attainment

2015 ◽  
Vol 660 (1) ◽  
pp. 240-260 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lincoln Quillian
Keyword(s):  
Discrete Choice ◽  
Residential Mobility ◽  
Choice Models ◽  
Discrete Choice Models ◽  
Median Income ◽  
Lower Income ◽  
Household Characteristics ◽  
Locational Attainment ◽  
Choice Approach ◽  
Black Households

This article contrasts traditional modeling approaches and discrete-choice models as methods to analyze locational attainment—how individual and household characteristics (such as race, socioeconomic status, age) influence the characteristics of neighborhoods of residence (such as racial composition and median income). Traditional models analyze attributes of a neighborhood as a function of the characteristics of the households within them; discrete-choice methods, on the other hand, are based on dyadic analysis of neighborhood attributes and household characteristics. I outline two problems with traditional approaches to residential mobility analysis that may be addressed through discrete-choice analysis. I also discuss disadvantages of the discrete-choice approach. Finally, I use data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics to estimate residential mobility using traditional locational attainment and discrete-choice models; I show that these produce similar estimates but that the discrete-choice approach allows for estimates that examine how multiple place characteristics simultaneously guide migration. Substantively, these models reveal that the disproportionate migration of black households into lower-income tracts amounts to sorting of black households into black tracts, which on average are lower income.

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.

Change in Racial and Ethnic Residential Inequality in American Cities, 1970–2000

2007 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 335-365 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeffrey M. Timberlake ◽  
John Iceland
Keyword(s):  
Socioeconomic Status ◽  
Residential Segregation ◽  
Time Horizon ◽  
Metropolitan Areas ◽  
Neighborhood Socioeconomic Status ◽  
Spatial Assimilation ◽  
Location Patterns ◽  
Ethnic Residential Segregation ◽  
Residential Inequality ◽  
American Cities

We complement and extend research on change in racial and ethnic residential segregation by estimating determinants of change from 1970 to 2000 in four measures of residential inequality—dissimilarity, entropy, isolation, and net difference—between American Whites, Blacks, Asians, and Latinos. Because we use a longer time horizon and multiple measures, our findings clearly demonstrate some convergence in residential location patterns across groups, indicating gradual spatial assimilation in U.S. metropolitan areas. Although Blacks continue to be more segregated than either Asians or Latinos, residential inequality has declined more rapidly for Blacks than for the other two groups, particularly in terms of neighborhood socioeconomic status. We also find that all three groups, but particularly Asians, have been converting income gains relative to Whites into improved neighborhood socioeconomic status more than into increased residential integration with Whites.

Delayed Spatial Assimilation: Multigenerational Incorporation of the Mexican–Origin Population in Los Angeles

2007 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 193-209 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan K. Brown
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Generational Differences ◽  
Mexican Origin ◽  
Median Income ◽  
Spatial Integration ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Spatial Assimilation ◽  
Ethnic Integration ◽  
Assimilation Model

This article examines the nature and degree of spatial integration across generations among young adults of Mexican origin in metropolitan Los Angeles. Drawing on a new, unique data set that covers more than four generations of persons of Mexican origin, the research tests the extent to which residential settlement patterns follow two potential trajectories: one specified by a model of traditional spatial assimilation, which views economic and ethnic integration as increasing steadily across generations, or a new model of delayed spatial assimilation, which depicts residential mobility as stalling for a generation or more, in part because of intergenerational family obligations up through the second generation. While individual–level socioeconomic characteristics tend to rise uniformly in support of the classic assimilation model, neighborhood–level evidence shows that substantial spatial integration does not emerge until the third generation—a finding supporting the delayed assimilation model. Also, generational differences in the proportion Anglo of respondents’ neighborhoods outpace differences in median income. These results are consistent with the idea that delayed spatial assimilation involves an additional early phase of incorporation for those of Mexican origin.

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.

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.

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