The quest for a balanced ethnic mix : Singapore's ethnic quota policy examined
Ethniccommunity ; Ethnic composition ; Housing ; Housing policy ; Public sector ; Residential mobility ; Singapore ; Social group ; Urban district
The article examines the impact of the quota policy on the buying and renting, as well as the selling or letting. The differential response by the various ethnic groups is revealed.
Ethnicity and the multicultural city : living with diversity
Community ; Cultural identity ; Cultural studies ; Ethniccommunity ; Ethnicity ; Multiculturalism ; Segregation ; Town ; United Kingdom ; Urban district
at the very local level. He focuses on sites of cultural exchange and transformation, plural and contested senses of place, and agonistic politics of ethnicity and identity.
Ethnic segregation in the Netherlands : new patterns, new policies ?
Ethniccommunity ; Netherlands (The) ; Segregation ; Spatial concentration ; Town ; Urban district
The AA. describe the shifting patterns of ethnic minority groups in the largest cities (Amsterdam, Rotterdam, The Hague and Utrecht) between 1980 and 1998. They focus on the policy response to these patterns and briefly evaluate this response
. Ethnic concentrations are not problematic in themselves, but policy can significantly enhance the situation of the inhabitants of specific neighbourhoods.
Are there ethnic enclaves/ghettos in English cities ?
England ; Ethniccommunity ; Ethnic group ; Ghetto ; Residential choice ; Segregation ; Town ; Typology ; United Kingdom ; Urban district
Most studies answer about the segregation of ethnic groups using single indices which address one aspect only of a multidimensional concept. An alternative approach is used here which identifies residential area types according to the degree
of ethnic mixing. Their relative importance is evaluated in 18 English cities. The AA. find little evidence of significant segregation of Black ethnic groups, but more with regard to Asian groups.
Community ; Cultural identity ; Cultural landscape ; Cultural studies ; Ethniccommunity ; Ethnic group ; Midwest ; Territory ; United States
In the northern part of the American Midwest where so many Europeans came as immigrants, an ethnic reawakening characterizes many urban and rural communities. Two communities are analyzed : New Glarus, Wisconsin, settled in the 1840s by Swiss people
from Canton Glarus ; and Cambridge, Minnesota, settled in the 1860s by Swedes from Dalecarlia. Both towns have public expressions of ethnic culture, but that in New Glarus is much more overt, better organized and economically lucrative. - ( DWG)
Cultural studies ; Ethniccommunity ; Ethnic group ; Territorial identity ; United States
The A. defines homeland as a place to which an ethnic group has an emotional bonding. Describes variants of that therm which include mythic homeland, micro- and macro-homelands, fragmented homelands, and urban homelands. - (DWG)
Ethnical diversity and regional development of eastern borderland regions in Poland, Lithuania and Latvia
Ethniccommunity ; European Union ; Frontier ; Latvia ; Lithuania ; Poland ; Regional development
The paper deals with the problems of ethnic diversity of the regions (NUTS 3) belonging to Poland, Lithuania and Latvia, situated along the eastern borderland of the European Union. The ethnic factor, namely, influences in an important manner
(Belarus’, Russian Federation). The complex ethnic landscape may turn out to be a negative, as well as positive factor of the regional development. - (BJ)
Conflict ; Democracy ; Electoral behaviour ; Ethniccommunity ; Ethnic group ; Italy ; Organization ; Political geography ; Political party ; Population ; Tirol ; Trentino-Alto Adige
Consociational democracy is often proposed as a non-territorial strategy to accomodate tensions between ethnic groups in the framework of a democratic regime. This multi-ethnic province (Alto Adige) is presented as an example of a regional ethnic
conflict solved by the application of a consociational strategy. The inter-ethnic situation has improved after introduction of an autonomy statute. The analysis shows that the autonomous statute has contributed to the transformation into a regional society
Rethinking the analysis of ethnic residential patterns : segregation, isolation, or concentration thresholds in Auckland, New Zealand ?
Auckland ; Ethniccommunity ; Ethnic group ; Index ; Measurement ; New Zealand ; Segregation ; Spatial concentration ; Urban area
Data from the 1996 New Zealand Census on ethnicity in Auckland are used to illustrate a new approach to measuring spatial separation. The method is based on thresholds. This provides more detailed information on the geography of ethnic groups
In this paper, the author assesses and explains changes in ethnic composition that occurred in the postcommunist countries of Europe and the Caucasus during the 1990s. Quantitative as well as qualitative aspects of ethno-demographic changes
Ethniccommunity ; Ethnic composition ; Measurement ; Polarization ; Serbia ; Social geography ; Voivodina
From a methodological perspective, the paper aims to demonstrate that ethnic diversity can be an objectively measurable notion, thus multi-ethnicity may have its own ‘units of measurement’. However, while the Hungarian geographic literature has
concentrated by now on only the fragmentation (i.e. ‘Ethnic Diversity Index’), another type of diversity should be also defined: the phenomenon called polarization when two or maximum three ethnic groups with nearly equal population number are present. Using
the so-called ‘ethnic polarization index’ the paper emphasizes that the increase or decrease of diversity cannot be described as a two-dimensional process. - (AM)
The creation of an ethnic culture complex region : Pennsylvania Germans in Central Ohio, 1790-1850
Community ; Historic centre ; Indiana ; Lobby ; Old district ; Sense of belonging ; Town ; United States of America
After an introductory consideration of culture areas, ethnic homelands, ethnic islands, and ethnic substrata, A. discusses the migration of Pennsylvania German from southeastern Pennsylvania to a five-county region of central Ohio in the later 18th
and early 19th centuries. This case study is presented in the context of the ongoing ethnic homeland debate-that certain places dominated by an ethnic group have qualities that set them apart from other culture areas. He thinks that central Ohio
is an example of a culture complex region, which he puts as between an ethnic homeland and an ethnic island in scale and has distinct characteristics from them. - (SLD)
Culture regions, homelands and ethnic archipelagos in the United States : methodological considerations
Cultural identity ; Cultural studies ; Ethniccommunity ; Sense of belonging ; Social space ; United States
As defined by the A., the foundation of the ethnic homelands concept involves indigenity, exclusivity, cultural vitality, resilience, and scale. These multiple conditions exclude cultural groups such as the English, Irish and Germans, but do cover
Ethnic financial systems among Japanese immigrants in California
The financial mechanism existing in the community of Japanese immigrants consisted of formal and informal levels. Ethnic ties played an important role at both levels. Small scale ethnic finances at the informal level were more successful. Japanese
The rise and fall of Afrikaner ethnic political mobilisation 1943-1999
Election ; Ethniccommunity ; Political geography ; Political party ; South Africa
The dominance of the National Party in South African white politics for nearly five decades represents a highly successful example of ethnic political mobilisation. The paper examines the patterns of consolidation and later fragmentation