Abstract
This study investigates black ethnic immigrant group differences in residential outcomes between developing and mature suburbs. It evaluates the extent to which foreign-born black ethnic groups’ socioeconomic status (SES) and acculturation characteristics agree with the outlines of the spatial assimilation model. Binomial logistic regression models are calculated, using data from the 2012–2016 IPUMS ACS, to examine the impact of place of birth/nativity status, SES, acculturation, family/household characteristics, and region on residence in developing versus mature suburbs within U.S. metropolitan areas. The results reveal mixed results for the expectations of the spatial assimilation model. On the one hand, and in agreement with the spatial assimilation model, residence in mature and developing suburbs is a function of increments in household income and educational levels. On the other hand, the multivariate results reveal suburban type residential outcomes that vary by place of birth and nativity status. The effects of acculturation also reveal findings that diverge from the expectations of the spatial assimilation model.
Highlights
According to the spatial assimilation model increasing socioeconomic status (SES) levels, including acculturation, should eventually allow foreign-born households of different racial and ethnic background to reside in the suburbs [1,2,3,4]
The present study examined black ethnic immigrant group locational attainment outcomes between mature and developing suburbs
Sociodemographic, economic, and structural changes within suburbia challenge the main tents of the spatial assimilation theoretical model, which has successfully described the suburban outcomes for a substantial share of white European ethnic groups, and their native-born offspring, through most of the twentieth century
Summary
According to the spatial assimilation model increasing socioeconomic status (SES) levels, including acculturation, should eventually allow foreign-born households of different racial and ethnic background to reside in the suburbs [1,2,3,4]. Insofar as the residential attainment outcomes for most foreign-born groups throughout most of the twentieth century has followed the positive linear relationship between their individual-level SES attainments and suburban residence, less is known on how the above relationship fares in describing the suburban outcomes of immigrant black ethnic groups within a changing suburban context in the twenty-first century. Demographic, structural, and compositional changes have altered the traditional image of the suburbs as consisting of predominately higher SES white households residing in single-family homes relative to their central-city residents [9]
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