RT Journal Article
T1 Immigrant locations and native residential preferences: emerging ghettos or new communities?
A1 Fernández-Huertas Moraga, Jesús
A1 Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada
A1 Saiz, Albert
AB Strong political movements voicing opposition to immigration are on the upswing.Does such potential antagonism translate into residential dynamics? We study whethernatives ed from immigrant areas in reaction to the largest and fastest migration shockin the OECD. The inow{causing the population of Spain to grow by 10 percent between1998 and 2008{represented a largely new phenomenon, the size of which had notbeen factored into previous expectations, thereby providing quasi-experimental sourcesof variance. Our results show that immigrant inows caused mild native displacementfrom denser, established neighborhoods, but also more real estate development in theseareas. In parallel, both natives and immigrants were collocating in booming suburbancommunities, resulting in no changes to overall measures of ethnic segregation. In lightof the results, we argue that whenever ethnic-minority arrivals spur the creation of newneighborhoods, conventional empirical methods overstate the degree of native fight.
PB Elsevier
SN 0094-1190
YR 2019
FD 2019-07-01
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10016/35136
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10016/35136
LA eng
NO Jesús Fernández-Huertas Moraga gratefully acknowledges the support from the Ministeriode Econom  a, Industria y Competitividad (Spain), grants ECO2016-76402-R and MDM 2014-0431, and from the Comunidad de Madrid, MadEco-CM (S2015/HUM-3444).
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