This edited volume brings together leading researchers from the United States, the United Kingdom and Europe to look at the processes leading to segregation and its implications.
With a methodological focus, the book explores new methods and data sources that can offer fresh perspectives on segregation in different contexts. It considers how the spatial patterning of segregation might be best understood and measured, outlines some of the mechanisms that drive it, and discusses its possible social outcomes. Ultimately, it demonstrates that measurements and concepts of segregation must keep pace with a changing world.
This volume will be essential reading for academics and practitioners in human geography, sociology, planning and public policy.
"This outstanding collection on segregation deserves to be the “go to text” in the field. I will consult it again and again for both instruction and research. Kudos to the editors." Dr Stephen A. Matthews, Penn State University
Chris Lloyd, Senior Lecturer in Geography, University of Liverpool. He has published extensively on spatial analysis and population studies.
Ian Shuttleworth, Senior Lecturer in Geography and Director of the NILS-RSU, Queen's University Belfast. His research and teaching focusses on population themes.
David Wong, Professor of Geography, University of Hong Kong, and George Mason University, Virginia, US, has a research focus on segregation.
Introduction ~ Christopher D Lloyd, Ian Shuttleworth and David Wong;
Section 1: Concepts & Methods;
Segregation matters; measurement matters ~ Ron Johnston, Mike Poulsen and Jim Forrest;
Using a general spatial pattern index to evaluate spatial segregation ~ David Wong;
Measuring ‘neighbourhood’ segregation using spatial interaction data~ Christopher D Lloyd, Ian Shuttleworth and Gemma Catney;
The Micro-Geography of Segregation: Evidence from Historical US Census Data~ Antonio Páez, Manuel Ruiz, Fernando López and John Logan;
Neighbourhood racial diversity and white residential segregation in the United States ~ Richard Wright, Mark Ellis and Steven Holloway;
Analysing segregation using individualized neighbourhoods ~ John Östh, Bo Malmberg, and Eva Andersson;
The international comparability of ethnicity and collective identity; implications for segregation studies ~ Pablo Mateos;
Section 2: Processes;
Perspectives on social segregation and migration: spatial scale, mixing and places ~ Ian Shuttleworth, Myles Gould and Paul Barr;
“Sleepwalking towards Johannesburg”? Local measures of ethnic segregation between London’s secondary schools, 2003 – 2008/9 ~ Rich Harris;
Segregation, choice based letting and social housing: How housing policy can affect the segregation process ~ Maarten van Ham and David Manley;
Demographic understandings of changes in ethnic residential segregation across the life course ~ Albert Sabater and Nissa Finney;
A Tale of Two Cities: Residential Segregation in St. Louis and Cincinnati ~ Sungsoon Hwang;
Section 3: Outcomes & Implications;
‘Religious’ concentration and health outcomes in Northern Ireland ~ Gemma Catney;
Class Segregation ~ Danny Dorling;
Exploring socioeconomic characteristics of ethnically-divided neighbourhoods ~ Kenneth French;
Section 4: Conclusions and outcomes;
17. Conclusion: Possible future agendas and summary thoughts ~Christopher D Lloyd, Ian Shuttleworth and David Wong.