1. Pathways of Residential Mobility and Neighborhood Attainment: Racial and Ethnic Inequalities among the Urban Poor.
- Author
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Graif, Corina
- Subjects
RESIDENTIAL mobility ,URBAN poor ,SOCIAL justice ,RACIAL differences ,ETHNIC differences ,HOUSING discrimination - Abstract
For the inner city poor, moving to a high-poverty neighborhood or a low-poverty neighborhood can set off trajectories of inequality and blocked opportunities that challenge fundamental assumptions of social justice and freedom. In this paper, I examine residential history data for participants in the Moving to Opportunity Experiment to examine racial and ethnic differences in the pathways of spatial mobility as they unfold over time and particularly focus on their role in reproducing inequality in neighborhood attainment. As expected, considering the nature and levels of residential segregation that structure the U.S. urban landscape, results indicate that mobility regimes are highly differentiated by racial and ethnic status. I argue that before we can understand the effects of neighborhoods we have to pay attention to differences in the racially and ethnically structured processes governing path-dependent residential trajectories along with the spatially embedded mechanisms of integration and exclusion. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Published
- 2009