Residential Segregation of European and Non-European Migrants in Sweden: 1990–2012

• DOI: 10.1007/s10680-018-9478-0
• Publication Date: 2018-03-21T06:16:29Z
• Authors: Bo Malmberg; Eva K. Andersson; Michael M. Nielsen; Karen Haandrikman
• Keywords: Index of dissimilarity; Neighbourhood (mathematics); European population

In this paper, we analyse how a migrant population that is both expanding and changing in composition has affected the of Swedish neighbourhoods at different scales. The analysis based on geocoded individual-level register data for years 1990, 1997, 2005, 2012. This allows us to compute demographic range size from encompassing nearest 100 individuals 409,600 individuals. First, results confirm earlier findings migrants, especially those non-European countries, face high levels segregation Sweden. Second, large increases populations combination with have increased proportion migrants living already proportions migrants. Third, contrast what been established image trends Sweden, an apparent finding increasingly live migrant-dense neighbourhoods, our show segregation, when defined as uneven distribution across residential contexts, not increasing. On contrary, European 1990 there downward trend unevenness measured by dissimilarity index all scale levels. However, if differences neighbourhood concentration increased.