Geographical segregation

Geographical segregation exists whenever the proportions of population rates of two or more populations are not homogeneous throughout a defined space. Populations can be considered any plant or animal species, human genders, followers of a certain religion, people of different nationalities, ethnic groups, etc.

In social geography segregation of ethnic groups, social classes and genders is often measured by the calculation of indices such as the index of dissimilarity. Different dimensions of segregation (or its contrary) are recognized: exposure, evenness, clustering, concentration, centralization, etc.[1] More recent studies also highlight new local indices of segregation.[2]

Geographical segregation is most often measured with individuals' place of residence, but increasing geographical data availability makes it now possible to compute segregation indexes using individuals' activity space, in whole or in part.[3][4]

  1. ^ Massey D, Denton N (1993). American Apartheid: Segregation and the Making of the Underclass. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. ISBN 0674018206.
  2. ^ Krivo LJ, Byron RA, Calder CA, Peterson RD, Browning CR, Kwan MP, Lee JY (November 2015). "Patterns of local segregation: Do they matter for neighborhood crime?". Social Science Research. 54: 303–318. doi:10.1016/j.ssresearch.2015.08.005. PMID 26463550.
  3. ^ Wong DW, Shaw SL (June 2011). "Measuring segregation: an activity space approach". Journal of Geographical Systems. 13 (2): 127–145. Bibcode:2011JGS....13..127W. doi:10.1007/s10109-010-0112-x. PMC 3106997. PMID 21643546.
  4. ^ Cagney KA, York Cornwell E, Goldman AW, Cai L (2020-07-30). "Urban Mobility and Activity Space". Annual Review of Sociology. 46 (1): 623–648. doi:10.1146/annurev-soc-121919-054848. ISSN 0360-0572. S2CID 218819331.

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