Dr. Gemma Catney will give an invited talk on "The Multiple Spatial Scales of Ethnic Residential Segregation & Diversity in Britain". She is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Natural and Built Environment at the Queen's University Belfast

Event Date and Time: Tuesday, June 29, 2021 @ 12:00PM

Location: Zoom Webinar

Abstract

This seminar draws on the findings from several recent projects to explore the spatial scale dynamics of inter-group ethnic mixing in Britain. The presentation begins with an overview of the evolving micro-geographies of ethnic diversity and residential segregation over a forty-year period (1971-2011), exploiting an innovative resource, PopChange, to explore Britain’s changing population in greater spatial (1km by 1km grid cells) and temporal (1971-2011) detail than has previously been possible. The next part of the paper focuses specifically on the most ethnically diverse neighbourhoods in England. These ‘multi-ethnic neighbourhoods’ are an important marker of increased inter-ethnic contact, yet little is known about their spatial extent and the dynamics of their growth and stability. The final section reflects on the increasing spatial complexity of ethnic and racial residential geographies evidenced in the first half of the presentation. Spatially-weighted measures of segregation are employed across all (small) areas in England and Wales, to demonstrate the non-uniform scale effects of segregation between ethnic groups and explore spatial “thresholds” of segregation, which challenge established wisdom about the relative levels of neighbourhood mixing between ethnic groups.

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