Residential segregation of the foreign population in Madrid's metropolitan area: A quantitative analysis

摘要

This article aims at fulfilling three objectives. First of all, stress the importance of neighbourhoods for individual life outcomes, by way of their relationship with other relevant spaces of socialization and with social exclusion processes. Secondly, measure immigrants' residential segregation in Madrid's Metropolitan Area, in four of the five dimensions proposed by Denton and Massey (1988), together with other measures less frequently used in the literature and a new measure based on the index of dissimilarity. Finally, find out which variables are associated with the residential segregation. More precisely, identify if the economic and cultural background of foreign nationalities is associated with their residential segregation. The work analyses data for 46 nationalities and demonstrates that both cultural and economic factors are correlated with residential segregation. However, the data does not allow us to discriminate among several causal mechanisms that may lie behind these correlations.