Immigration and Socio-spatial Segregation in Dublin, 1996-2006

Tony Fahey and Bryan Fanning
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Tony Fahey: school of Applied Social Science, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland, tony.fahey@ucd.ie
Bryan Fanning: school of Applied Social Science, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland, bryan.fanning@ucd.ie

Urban Studies, 2010, vol. 47, issue 8, 1625-1642

Abstract: Previous research on the impact of immigration on urban socio-spatial inequalities has focused on cities with long immigration histories where successive waves of new arrivals impacted on segregation patterns established by preceding waves, usually in a context where immigrants in each wave were poor and had low education. This paper focuses on Dublin as an example of a city where immigration is new and recent, is dominated by the well educated and occurs against a backdrop of a mono-ethnic existing population. In that context, it examines the impact of immigrant settlement patterns on socio-spatial inequalities in the city in the years 1996—2006, a period of economic boom. It finds that, while immigrants in Dublin were segregated to a certain degree, with a slight tendency to cluster in disadvantaged areas, clustering provided a small element of social lift to disadvantaged areas and generally contributed to a significant reduction in socio-spatial inequalities that occurred in the city in the period.

Date: 2010
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DOI: 10.1177/0042098009353624

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