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PRInformation
Spring 2009
Research Brief
Hispanic Segregation in Metropolitan America
Source: Iceland, J. and K.A. Nelson (2008). "Hispanic Segregation in Metropolitan America: Exploring the Multiple Forms of Spatial Assimilation." American Sociological Review 73(5):741-765.
Do race and nativity affect the residential patterns of Hispanics in the United States? A recent study by Dr. John Iceland, professor of sociology and demography, and Kyle Anne Nelson, University of Maryland, examines how race and nativity affect levels of residential segregation among Hispanics in US metropolitan areas. Using data from the 2000 Census, Iceland and Nelson find that US-born Hispanics are typically less segregated from various other racial and ethnic groups than are their foreign-born counterparts. Race, however, continues to influence residential patterns. White Hispanics tend to be less segregated from non-Hispanic whites than from African-Americans, and black Hispanics tend to be less segregated from African Americans than from non-Hispanic whites. Overall, their results suggest that Hispanics, with some exceptions, tend to simultaneously experience spatial integration with multiple groups.
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