Sri Lankans’ residential segregation and spatial inequalities in Southern Italy: an empirical analysis using fine-scale data on regular lattice geographies

Federico Benassi (), Francesca Bitonti (), Angelo Mazza () and Salvatore Strozza ()
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Federico Benassi: Italian National Institute of Statistics – Istat
Francesca Bitonti: University of Catania
Angelo Mazza: University of Catania
Salvatore Strozza: University of Naples Federico II

Quality & Quantity: International Journal of Methodology, 2023, vol. 57, issue 2, No 30, 1629-1648

Abstract: Abstract Sri Lankans constitute one of Italy's oldest foreign communities. A comparative geographic study of Sri Lankans’ settlement patterns in three main municipalities of South Italy (Naples, Palermo, and Catania) is performed in the present work. The uniqueness of the analysis relies on the fact that, to the authors’ knowledge, no other existing studies comparatively examine the spatial segregation of Sri Lankan communities in different southern European municipalities. Moreover, implementing a single geographic reference grid allowed the homogenisation of different areal unit arrangements and the comparison between urban contexts. Original results have emerged from the empirical analysis, detecting peculiar and similar residential behaviour in Sri Lankans’ settlement patterns across the three municipalities analysed, jointly influenced by work specialisation and variations in the local cost of living. In particular, the high levels of Sri Lankan concentration detected in the wealthiest neighbourhoods revealed complex dynamics underlying the urban spatial segregation, beyond the mere centre-periphery dichotomy.

Keywords: South Europe; Italy; Sri Lankans; Segregation; Local-scale analysis; Divided cities (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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