Ethnic Residential segregation

Question 1

Definition

Answer 1

• Residential segregation is the degree to which two or more groups live separately from one another, in different parts of the urban environment

Question 2

Causes of segregation (Self Selection)

Answer 2

Some ethnic minorities choose to segregate themselves an example of this is polish place making in the UK, In this instance polish prefer to move together as a collective because they are stronger as a collective. (Gill.2009)

Question 3

Causes of segregation (Housing Supply)

Answer 3

• Race/ethnic minorities were show far fewer housing than their white counterparts
• This is called discrimination during the housing availability stage. The statistics shown from an audit showed that blacks were shown 23.7% less in the housing availability sales market and 24.5% fewer units in the housing rental markets. (Yinger,J.1995)
• Housing discrimination in both public and private sectors, has been proposed to cause ethnically segregated living spaces in American cities. (French,K,N. 2008)
• Real estate agents were accused of steering prospective homeowners to certain areas of the city, Whites were predominantly shown homes in the suburbs whereas non whites were shown homes in the inner city neighbourhoods (French,K,N.2008)
• Informative steering: Whites receive information about a wide range of neighbourhoods, while ethnic minorities are limited to a few neighbourhoods (Turner and Ross.2014)
• Segregation steering: Whites are encouraged to consider neighbourhoods that are predominantly white, though positive and negative comments about the neighbourhoods (Turner and Ross.2014)
• Class steering: Whites are encouraged to consider more affluent areas than are economically comparable African American or hispanic house seekers institutional factors (Turner and Ross.2014)

Question 4

Effects of segregation

Answer 4

• Socialisation Process (Counter cultures)
• Stigmatisation
• Areas of social segregation labelled as ghettos, (Keene,D. Padilla,M.2010) believes that residents of such places are often marked not only by the stigma of race and class, but also by a blemish of place that much like many other forms of stigma reduces them from a whole and usual person to a tainted, discounted one
• Negative health consequences attached with those who live in racially segregated “ghettos”. Negative health consequences a as result of physical proximity to unheqlthy phenomena limited access to health promoting resources or exposure to socially harmful patterns that emerge under conditions of long term economic deprivation ((Keene,D. Padilla,M.2010)
• Social networks
• People in the community are homogenous this leads to a community bonding and a strong network (Hostra,B. Corten,R.2017)
• As a result of concentrated poverty, residents of ghettos are less likely to have friends or neighbours with a regular attachment to the labour force and therefore are more likely to have friends to neighbours engaged in risky or criminal behaviour. Indicating that people in these neighbourhoods are negatively affected by their peers (Neighbourhood effect)(Hostra,B. Corten,R.2017)