Groups' contribution to shaping ethnic residential segregation: a dynamic approach

Eduardo Tapia ()
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Eduardo Tapia: Linköping University

Journal of Computational Social Science, 2022, vol. 5, issue 1, No 24, 565-589

Abstract: Abstract Some have argued it is possible to infer different groups’ contributions to ethnic residential segregation from their individual neighborhood preferences. From this perspective, natives tend to be more segregation-promoting than non-natives, since they prefer neighborhoods where they are the majority. It remains unclear, however, whether this holds when one evaluates their contributions to segregation within a dynamic perspective. Using register data from Statistics Sweden, I define and model ten different groups’ residential behavior based on their ethnicity and family composition. I thereby simulate the residential mobility of the full population of Stockholm municipality residents from 1998 to 2012. Even though my results at the micro-level are consistent with previous studies, the simulation results show that foreign singles’ mobility patterns are more segregation-promoting than any other groups, since this group shows a greater in-group feedback effect regarding choice of new neighborhoods, an effect that increases their flow from low-to-high segregated neighborhoods progressively. My results suggest that (1) integration initiatives would be more efficient if focused on this particular group and (2) a proper evaluation of micro-behaviors’ implications for macro-patterns of segregation requires a dynamic approach accounting for groups’ heterogeneous behaviors and their main interdependencies on shaping segregation over time.

Keywords: Ethnic residential segregation; Residential segregation dynamics; Large-scale empirically-calibrated simulation models; Analytical sociology (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1007/s42001-021-00136-6

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