Bringing Proximate Neighbours into the Study of US Residential Segregation
- 7 June 2010
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Urban Studies
- Vol. 48 (4), 611-639
- https://doi.org/10.1177/0042098009360684
Abstract
The race and ethnicity of neighbours are thought to be critical in shaping household mobility underlying residential segregation. However, studies on this topic have used data at the census-tract level of analysis rather than at the proximate-neighbour level. Using a non-publicly available version of the neighbour-cluster sample within the American Housing Survey, this study incorporates data on the race, ethnicity and socioeconomic characteristics of the proximate neighbours of White, Black and Latino households and examines their impact on household residential satisfaction, out- and in-mobility. Results indicate that proximate-neighbour race and ethnicity matter in influencing endpoints of the mobility process and do not necessarily parallel those at the census-tract level. Implications of these findings are discussed as they relate to the study of residential segregation.Keywords
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