The changing ethnic geography of Israeli cities in Studies in Israeli ethnicity : after the ingathering.
The paper dwells on the geographical patterns of ethnicity in the urban Jewish population of Israel. It dwells on the correlation between ethnicity, socio-economic status and intra-urban location. - (DN)
The quest for a balanced ethnic mix : Singapore's ethnic quota policy examined
Ethnic community ; 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.
Imagine all the neighbours : perceived neighbourhood ethnicity, interethnic friendship ties and perceived ethnic threat in four Nordic countries
Denmark ; Ethnic minority ; Ethnicity ; Finland ; Friendship ; Neighbourhood ; Norway ; Perception ; Social geography ; Sweden ; Urban area
This article analyses the impact of the self-evaluated ethnic composition of the place of residence on interethnic contacts and attitudes through the comparison in Denmark, Norway, Finland and Sweden. It demonstrates that interethnic relationships
are more common in ethnically mixed ones with some self-reported ethnic minorities and that living in an area with many perceived ethnic minorities does not necessarily increase the probability of having interethnic friends in all four countries
. It concludes that perceived ethnic threat, however, is generally at its lowest level in areas with only some ethnic minorities, which may leave some room for conflict or competition theories as well.
Assimilation ; Baranya ; Ethnic composition ; Ethnic group ; Hungary ; Migration ; Population ; Social integration
This research examines the ethnic composition in Baranya County. The socialist economy concealed the particular features of certain ethnic groups and the assimilation of certain ethnic groups is greatly advanced. The role of family-relative
relationships divided on ethnic grounds is also analysed in the paper. - (JS)
Are there ethnic enclaves/ghettos in English cities ?
England ; Ethnic community ; 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.
Ethnic segregation in the Netherlands : new patterns, new policies ?
Ethnic community ; 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.
The ethnic minorities of Estonia : changing size, location, and composition
Estonia ; Ethnic community ; Ethnic composition ; Ethnic minority ; International migration ; Location ; Minority ; Occupational activity ; Population census
Ethnicity and the multicultural city : living with diversity
Community ; Cultural identity ; Cultural studies ; Ethnic community ; 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.
Central Europe ; China ; Congress ; Cultural landscape ; Eastern Europe ; Ethnic composition ; Ethnic group ; Ethnicity ; Former Czechoslovakia ; Former Yugoslavia ; Frontier ; Italy ; Migration ; Minority ; National territory ; Nationalism
Specifics of ethnic groups and minorities of Slovenia are examined, and its neighboring lands in regard to past and present processes in demography and history. Then, ethnicity and territoriality of Eastern and Central Europe are discussed
: regionalism and nationalism are strong components of the region at present. Other papers focus on territories of states and the changing composition of ethnicities within: it is a result of diverse demographic conditions. The final papers examine ethnic micro
Ethnic community ; 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
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)
Ethnical diversity and regional development of eastern borderland regions in Poland, Lithuania and Latvia
Ethnic community ; 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)
From ethnic to national : political geography in Slovenia
Balkans ; Cultural studies ; Ethnic composition ; Minority ; Multiculturalism ; Political geography ; Slovenia ; Territorial identity
Early research has made the Slovenian ethnic component in Austria, Italy and Hungary a laboratory of studies on the minority–majority relations, as well as on ethnic migration. Studies during the “cold war era” have shown ways to overcome political
divisions and cultural diversity. Recently, the integration and disintegration processes have come into the spotlight. At the same time the multi-cultural aspects, the territorial identity and the ethnic components continue to play an important role. - (IKR)
Conflict ; Democracy ; Electoral behaviour ; Ethnic community ; 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 ; Ethnic community ; 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
The core-periphery paradigm of state integration is reviewed and attention is focused on ethnic political mobilization in the periphery, highlighting separatism as a mechanism for alleviating ethnic-regional grievances. Illustration is provided
with reference to the ideological rationale and socio-cultural basis of Welsh Nationalism. A number of theses designed to explain this feature of ethnic resurgence are examined and the Internal Colonial model is criticized as being overdependent on the premise
of capitalism's uneven development producing ethnic separatist movements in the peripheral regions of Western Europe.