Synopses & Reviews
This volume brings together leading researchers from the United States, United Kingdom, and Europe to explore the processes that lead to segregation and the outcomes and implications that result. Making use of new methods and data sources that offer fresh perspectives on segregation in different contexts, the book considers how the spatial patterning of segregation might be best understood and measured.
Review
“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.”
Synopsis
Inequality is one of the major problems of the contemporary world. Significant geographical disparities exist within nations of the developed world, as well as between these countries and those referred to as the 'South' in the Bruntland Report. Issues of equity and deprivation must be addressed in view of sustainable development. However, before policymakers can remove the obstacles to a fairer world, it is essential to understand the nature of inequality, both in terms of its spatial and socio-demographic characteristics. This second volume in the series contains population studies that examine the disparities evident across geographical space in the UK and between different individuals or groups. Topics include demographic and social change, deprivation, happiness, cultural consumption, ethnicity, gender, employment, health, religion, education and social values. These topics and the relationships between them are explored using secondary data from censuses, surveys or administrative records. In volume 1 the findings of research on fertility, living arrangements, care and mobility are examined. Volume 3 will focus on ethnicity and integration.
About the Author
Christopher D. Lloyd is a senior lecturer in geography at the University of Liverpool.Ian Shuttleworth is a senior lecturer in geography and the director of the NILS-RSU at Queen's University Belfast.David W. Wong is professor of geography at the University of Hong Kong and at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia.
Table of Contents
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 Londons 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
Conclusion: Possible future agendas and summary thoughts
~Christopher D Lloyd, Ian Shuttleworth and David