13 TWO Segregation matters, measurement matters1 Ron Johnston, Michael Poulsen and James Forrest There’s many a difference quickly found Between the different races. But the only essential differential Is living in different places. (Ogden Nash)2 Introduction Segregation across neighbourhoods, schools and workplaces, by ethnicity, age, socioeconomic class and gender, for example, provides frequent material for political and social commentators – especially at times of social unrest when it (in particular residential and school segregation by ethnicity
There is an enduring belief amongst some that segregation is worsening and undermining social cohesion, and that this is especially visible in the growing divides between the schools in which our children are educated.
This book uses up-to-date evidence to interrogate some of the controversial claims made by the 2016 Casey Review, providing an analysis of contemporary patterns of ethnic, residential and social segregation, and looking at the ways that these changing geographies interact with each other.
363 FIFTEEN Class segregation Danny Dorling Introduction This chapter concentrates on the causes, outcomes and implications of social and geographical segregation by class, using the example of how social geography has changed in Britain since around 1968, and putting these changes into a wider geographical and historical context. (Northern Ireland is not included for numerous reasons, not least because it has a special and very different recent history of segregation.) Here I argue that the antecedents of the current growth in class segregation in Britain
Summary The idea that ethnic segregation is growing in England is sometimes implied in Government-backed policy documents and reinforced by the media, notwithstanding empirical evidence to the contrary. This chapter introduces how debates about segregation have been framed, reproduced and applied to what is happening within schools. It notes a tendency to present segregation as something due to minority groups despite those groups becoming more spread out and living in more mixed neighbourhoods. Introduction This book provides a new study of
3 ONE The challenge of global school segregation Charity Anderson The problem School segregation—the uneven distribution of students across schools, based on their socioeconomic status (SES), sex, race/ethnicity, or other ascribed characteristics—has important implications for educational inequality, social cohesion, and intergenerational mobility (Bonal and Bellei, 2019). While this topic has drawn special attention in the US, due, in part, to the 1954 Brown v. the Board of Education Supreme Court case, between-school segregation is a concern to
39 Ethnic residential segregation stability in England, 1991–2001 Katherine Farley, Health Sciences, University of York, UK katherine.farley@york.ac.uk Tim Blackman, The Open University, UK tim.blackman@open.ac.uk The residential arrangements of ethnic groups became the subject of political interest when they were identified as a feature of urban areas that experienced unrest in 2001. Residential segregation was framed as both problematic for community relations and a cause of economic inequalities (Cantle, 2001; Denham, 2001). This article presents
361Spatial segregation and labour market processes in Belfast Policy & Politics vol 35 no 3 • 361–75 (2007) © The Policy Press, 2007 • ISSN 0305 5736 Key words: segregation • ‘chill factors’ • labour markets • territoriality Final submission May 06 • Acceptance May 06 Spatial segregation and labour market processes in Belfast Brendan Murtagh and Peter Shirlow English This article examines the nature of labour market exclusion in Belfast and policy responses to the dilemmas of ethnic space. It highlights the value of an area-based approach to
This edited volume brings together leading researchers from the United States, the United Kingdom and Europe to look at the processes leading to segregation and its implications.
With a methodological focus, the book explores new methods and data sources that can offer fresh perspectives on segregation in different contexts. It considers how the spatial patterning of segregation might be best understood and measured, outlines some of the mechanisms that drive it, and discusses its possible social outcomes. Ultimately, it demonstrates that measurements and concepts of segregation must keep pace with a changing world.
This volume will be essential reading for academics and practitioners in human geography, sociology, planning and public policy.
197 NINE Perspectives on social segregation and migration: spatial scale, mixing and place Ian G. Shuttleworth, Myles Gould and Paul Barr Introduction Most studies of residential segregation in the UK and the US are based on census data. This means that they are cross-sectional as they capture geographical population patterns as they exist at one moment in time when the census is taken. Despite this, there is a long-standing awareness that segregation is shaped by changes in population distributions through time and the process is dynamic. One major
269 TWELVE Demographic understandings of changes in ethnic residential segregation across the life course Albert Sabater and Nissa Finney Introduction This chapter presents analyses of changes in the level of ethnic residential segregation in Britain taking a life course perspective. Changes are separately analysed for age cohorts, ethnic groups and subnational areas. The results show ethnic residential desegregation in the 1990s across age cohorts and ethnic groups, and this is particularly marked for young adults. The second part of the chapter examines
