Abstract
This paper investigates the most common leisure time activities, activity sites and the interaction between members of minority and majority populations as they spend their time out‐of‐home and out‐of‐workplace. We ask the question how leisure time activities are related to the ethnic dimensions of residential and workplaces. Our case study area is Tallinn, Estonia, and the main findings show that leisure time activity patterns have become very similar across the main ethnic groups, which is different from what is found for workplace and residential segregation. This shows the integrative potential of leisure time activities. However, since members of the minority and majority population still tend to visit different leisure sites, there is little interaction. We also find that people often spend their free time close to home, which implies that high levels of ethnic residential segregation translate into ethnic segregation during leisure time.
Highlights
To earlier studies (Clayton 2012; Schaefer 2013 ;Toomet et al, 2015), we find that residential segregation is an important determinant of leisure time activity sites, i.e. leisure could be partly considered as a “long arm of home”
Our first important finding shows that members of minority and majority population had different types of activity patterns in Tallinn in 2000; they participated in different activities at different places (Figure 2)
In the Soviet system, such differences remained for decades since migrants were channelled into a parallel society: the Russian-speaking population lived in segregated neighbourhoods and worked in Soviet industrial enterprises that took care of the leisure time activities of their employees
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