Abstract
Contemporary cities are becoming more and more diverse in population as a result of immigration. Research shows that while residential neighborhoods are becoming ethnically more diverse within cities, residential segregation from natives has overall remained persistently high. High levels of segregation are often seen as negative, preventing the integration of immigrants into their host society and having a negative impact on people's lives. Where as most studies of segregation deal with residential neighborhoods, this paper investigates segregation at workplaces for newly arrived immigrant men and women from the Global South to Sweden. By using the domain approach, we focus on the relationship between workplace segregation, residential segregation, and the ethnic composition of households. Using longitudinal register data from Sweden, we find that residential segregation is much weaker related to workplace segregation than revealed by studies using cross-sectional data. Furthermore, the residential context is not an important factor in explaining workplace segregation for immigrant men. The most important factors shaping workplace segregation pertain to economic sector and city size.
Highlights
Research interest in ethnic segregation is increasingly expanding beyond residential neighborhoods (Strömgren et al, 2014; van Kempen & Wissink, 2014). Van Ham and Tammaru (2016) have suggested a domains approach to understanding ethnic segregation which takes into account multiple domains of segregation, including residential neighborhoods and workplaces, and the links between them
The literature suggests that levels of workplace segregation are different for men and women (Tzannatos, 1999), not much is known about how the relationship between residential segregation and workplace segregation differs by sex, and how this relationship is mediated through immigrant–native intermarriages
Most previous studies on workplace segregation of immigrants take an interest in structural segregation, paying less attention to the dynamics of the segregation processes
Summary
Research interest in ethnic segregation is increasingly expanding beyond residential neighborhoods (Strömgren et al, 2014; van Kempen & Wissink, 2014). Van Ham and Tammaru (2016) have suggested a domains approach to understanding ethnic segregation which takes into account multiple domains of segregation, including residential neighborhoods and workplaces, and the links between them. The aim of this paper is to shed more light on how workplace segregation is related to residential segregation and intermarriage among newly arrived immigrants.1 It contributes to the segregation literature in three important ways. It brings forward the ongoing discussions on segregation as a multidimensional process (Marcinczak et al, 2015; van Ham & Tammaru, 2016) by providing a better understanding of the association between residential and workplace segregation among newly arrived immigrants. We take into account the ethnic composition of the household in studying the role of residential segregation for workplace segregation since for recently arrived immigrants, mixed ethnic unions with natives might lead to different neighborhood and workplace outcomes than for co-ethnic unions (Ellis, Holloway, Wright, & Fowler, 2012; Feng, Boyle, van Ham, & Raab, 2013; Strömgren et al, 2014).
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