Are there Ethnic Enclaves/Ghettos in English Cities?

Ron Johnston, James Forrest and Michael Poulsen
Additional contact information
James Forrest: Department of Human Geography, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW 2109, Australia, Jim.Forrest@mq.eduau
Michael Poulsen: Department of Human Geography, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW 2109, Australia, mike.pouLsen@mq.edu.au

Urban Studies, 2002, vol. 39, issue 4, 591-618

Abstract: The residential segregation of ethnic groups in urban areas remains an issue of importance for policy-making in multicultural societies, such as England's, with levels of segregation frequently linked to questions of social exclusion and equal treatment. But how segregated are ethnic groups in England? Most studies answer this question using single indices which address one aspect only of a multidimensional concept. In this paper, an alternative approach is used which identifies residential area types according to the degree of ethnic mixing; we evaluate their relative importance in 18 English cities in the light of Boal and Peach's arguments regarding the processes and patterns involved in segregation. We find little evidence of significant segregation of Black ethnic groups, but more with regard to Asian groups-especially outside London.

Date: 2002
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (11)

Downloads: (external link)
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1080/00420980220119480 (text/html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:sae:urbstu:v:39:y:2002:i:4:p:591-618

DOI: 10.1080/00420980220119480

Access Statistics for this article

More articles in Urban Studies from Urban Studies Journal Limited
Bibliographic data for series maintained by SAGE Publications ().