New Frontiers of Integration: Convergent Pathways of Neighborhood Diversification in Metropolitan New York

This article examines the most recent trends on neighborhood racial integration in New York—the country’s largest metropolitan area in 2019 with a total population of 19.2 million. We ask how the suburbanization of both immigration and poverty have transformed suburbs over the last two decades. We h...

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Main Authors: Kasey Zapatka, Van C. Tran
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Language:English
Published: Russell Sage Foundation 2023-02-01
Series:RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences
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description This article examines the most recent trends on neighborhood racial integration in New York—the country’s largest metropolitan area in 2019 with a total population of 19.2 million. We ask how the suburbanization of both immigration and poverty have transformed suburbs over the last two decades. We highlight four findings. First, ethnoracial diversification has led to a significant decline in nonintegrated neighborhoods and a sharp rise in integrated neighborhoods, but such a decline is more dramatic in suburbs than in cities. Second, White-integrated neighborhoods remain the most prevalent form of neighborhood integration in both cities and suburbs. Third, immigrant neighborhoods are more likely to be integrated in both suburbs and cities, but immigration’s impact on neighborhood integration in suburbs was stronger in 2000 than in 2019. Finally, the impacts of concentrated immigration, affluence, and disadvantage on neighborhood integration are consistent across suburbs and cities, pointing to convergent processes over time.
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spelling doaj.art-e525f164dc3d433ca0055d2314d020a72023-03-06T19:07:02ZengRussell Sage FoundationRSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences2377-82532377-82612023-02-01915283https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2023.9.1.03New Frontiers of Integration: Convergent Pathways of Neighborhood Diversification in Metropolitan New YorkKasey Zapatka0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7278-3660Van C. Tran1https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2532-6811City University of New YorkCity University of New YorkThis article examines the most recent trends on neighborhood racial integration in New York—the country’s largest metropolitan area in 2019 with a total population of 19.2 million. We ask how the suburbanization of both immigration and poverty have transformed suburbs over the last two decades. We highlight four findings. First, ethnoracial diversification has led to a significant decline in nonintegrated neighborhoods and a sharp rise in integrated neighborhoods, but such a decline is more dramatic in suburbs than in cities. Second, White-integrated neighborhoods remain the most prevalent form of neighborhood integration in both cities and suburbs. Third, immigrant neighborhoods are more likely to be integrated in both suburbs and cities, but immigration’s impact on neighborhood integration in suburbs was stronger in 2000 than in 2019. Finally, the impacts of concentrated immigration, affluence, and disadvantage on neighborhood integration are consistent across suburbs and cities, pointing to convergent processes over time.immigrationsuburbanizationneighborhood integrationnew york
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New Frontiers of Integration: Convergent Pathways of Neighborhood Diversification in Metropolitan New York
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences
immigration
suburbanization
neighborhood integration
new york
title New Frontiers of Integration: Convergent Pathways of Neighborhood Diversification in Metropolitan New York
title_full New Frontiers of Integration: Convergent Pathways of Neighborhood Diversification in Metropolitan New York
title_fullStr New Frontiers of Integration: Convergent Pathways of Neighborhood Diversification in Metropolitan New York
title_full_unstemmed New Frontiers of Integration: Convergent Pathways of Neighborhood Diversification in Metropolitan New York
title_short New Frontiers of Integration: Convergent Pathways of Neighborhood Diversification in Metropolitan New York
title_sort new frontiers of integration convergent pathways of neighborhood diversification in metropolitan new york
topic immigration
suburbanization
neighborhood integration
new york
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