Fernández-Huertas Moraga, JesúsFerrer-i-Carbonell, AdaSaiz, Albert2022-06-152022-06-152019-07-01Fernández-Huertas Moraga, J., Ferrer-i-Carbonell, A., & Saiz, A. (2019). Immigrant locations and native residential preferences: Emerging ghettos or new communities? Journal of Urban Economics, 112, pp. 133-151.0094-1190https://hdl.handle.net/10016/35136Strong political movements voicing opposition to immigration are on the upswing. Does such potential antagonism translate into residential dynamics? We study whether natives ed from immigrant areas in reaction to the largest and fastest migration shock in the OECD. The in ow{causing the population of Spain to grow by 10 percent between 1998 and 2008{represented a largely new phenomenon, the size of which had not been factored into previous expectations, thereby providing quasi-experimental sources of variance. Our results show that immigrant in ows caused mild native displacement from denser, established neighborhoods, but also more real estate development in these areas. In parallel, both natives and immigrants were collocating in booming suburban communities, resulting in no changes to overall measures of ethnic segregation. In light of the results, we argue that whenever ethnic-minority arrivals spur the creation of new neighborhoods, conventional empirical methods overstate the degree of native fight.eng© Elsevier, 2019Atribución-NoComercial-SinDerivadas 3.0 EspañaInternational migrationNative flightResidential segregationresearch articleF22J61D33Economíahttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.jue.2019.06.002open access133151JOURNAL OF URBAN ECONOMICS112AR/0000024996