Print Email Facebook Twitter Ethnic differences in realising desires to leave urban neighbourhoods Title Ethnic differences in realising desires to leave urban neighbourhoods Author Boschman, S.E. (TU Delft OLD Urban Renewal and Housing; Universiteit Utrecht) Kleinhans, R.J. (TU Delft OLD Urban Renewal and Housing) van Ham, M. (TU Delft OLD Urban Renewal and Housing; University of St Andrews) Date 2016 Abstract Selective mobility into and out of urban neighbourhoods is one of the main driving forces of segregation. Earlier research has found group differences in who wants to leave or who leaves certain types of neighbourhoods. A factor that has received little attention so far is that some residents will have a desire to leave their neighbourhood, but are unable to do so. If there are differences between population groups in the realisation of desires to leave the neighbourhood, this might lead to involuntary segregation. This paper uses a unique combination of register data and survey data. We combine data from a large housing survey in the Netherlands (WoON) with longitudinal register data from the Netherlands (SSD) which contains individual-level information on residential mobility histories. This allows us to study whether households with a desire to leave their neighbourhood do realise this desire and which households are successful in leaving which neighbourhoods. A more thorough insight in who wants to leave which neighbourhoods but is unable to do so will contribute to a better understanding of selective mobility and segregation. We find that ethnic minorities and low-income households are less likely to realise a desire to leave their neighbourhood. We expected that ethnic minorities would be especially unsuccessful in realising desires to leave minority concentration neighbourhoods; however, for none of the ethnic groups we found an effect of neighbourhood ethnic composition on the realisation of desires to leave. Subject Ethnic minoritiesMoving desiresNeighbourhoodsSegregationSelective mobility To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:5de28f75-f4d7-4a2b-8e42-2f78d1649295 DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/s10901-016-9524-3 ISSN 1566-4910 Source Journal of Housing and the Built Environment, 32 (2017), 495-512 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type journal article Rights © 2016 S.E. Boschman, R.J. Kleinhans, M. van Ham Files PDF art_10.1007_s10901_016_9524_3.pdf 531.47 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:5de28f75-f4d7-4a2b-8e42-2f78d1649295/datastream/OBJ/view