Abstract
Some have argued it is possible to infer different groups’ contributions to ethnic residential segregation from their individual neighborhood preferences. From this perspective, natives tend to be more segregation-promoting than non-natives, since they prefer neighborhoods where they are the majority. It remains unclear, however, whether this holds when one evaluates their contributions to segregation within a dynamic perspective. Using register data from Statistics Sweden, I define and model ten different groups’ residential behavior based on their ethnicity and family composition. I thereby simulate the residential mobility of the full population of Stockholm municipality residents from 1998 to 2012. Even though my results at the micro-level are consistent with previous studies, the simulation results show that foreign singles’ mobility patterns are more segregation-promoting than any other groups, since this group shows a greater in-group feedback effect regarding choice of new neighborhoods, an effect that increases their flow from low-to-high segregated neighborhoods progressively. My results suggest that (1) integration initiatives would be more efficient if focused on this particular group and (2) a proper evaluation of micro-behaviors’ implications for macro-patterns of segregation requires a dynamic approach accounting for groups’ heterogeneous behaviors and their main interdependencies on shaping segregation over time.
Highlights
Ethnic residential segregation ( “ERS”) is a predominant issue in modern societies
Its adverse consequences for achieving societies inclusive in earnings, health, or education are among the top priorities of academic and political agendas [3, 19, 23, 39, 53, 58, 61]
Previous investigations state that the selective inter-neighborhood mobility of households who base their residential choices on distinct ethnic and socioeconomic neighborhood preferences cause ERS
Summary
Ethnic residential segregation ( “ERS”) is a predominant issue in modern societies. Previous investigations state that the selective inter-neighborhood mobility of households who base their residential choices on distinct ethnic and socioeconomic neighborhood preferences cause ERS. From this perspective, households leave and avoid neighborhoods that do not satisfy their preferences and eventually stratify themselves unevenly across cities. Households leave and avoid neighborhoods that do not satisfy their preferences and eventually stratify themselves unevenly across cities This approach has led to two key assertions in the literature. Household neighborhood ethnic preferences inform the level of segregation at the macro-level and, second, groups’ contributions to shaping segregation derive directly from those preferences. Building on dependence theories of individual choice, which state that individual actions are contingent on others’ actions and that this reliance produces emergent results at the macro-level not straightforwardly derivable from individual choices [27, 54], I evaluate groups’ relative contributions to ERS
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