Residential Migration Case Study

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Forasmuch, migration is believed to enhance cities’ global competitiveness and allows companies to address labor shortages and specific skills needs. Migration also represents an expanded consumer base and often creates new market opportunities for businesses to thrive in (Cavicchio, 2008). According to Koser (2013), not only are better-integrated migrants more successful due to higher motivation and productivity, but they also display higher loyalty towards their employer, which results in less turnover and absenteeism. Furthermore, a diverse workplace has been shown to boost competitiveness and innovation among employees. This was proved to be certainly legit in big innovative company like Google, Apple or Tesla. Talking about migration …show more content…

It is a phenomenon that occurs with such frequency across diverse historical and geographical settings that we may be tempted to think that segregation is either pervasive (and thus not problematic) or necessary (and thus amenable to facile interpretation) However, this should not be the norm, as history have showed many bad facets. Indeed, residential segregation is a multidimensional and complicated concept (Johnston et al., 2002). One basic issue arises from the fact that a congested languages concerning segregation-related terminology can be observed in the several studies. The terms “spatial segregation”, “residential segregation”, “ethnic (residential) segregation” “socio-spatial segregation”, “housing segregation”, and “social segregation” are often mixed, sometimes used in one and the same meaning but sometimes also with different meanings without being defined …show more content…

From the Jewish diaspora in medieval Europe to the black experience in the post Fordist American metropolis, the concept of the ghetto has historically designated a spatial environment bound by confinement and seclusion. All ghettos are segregated, but not all segregated areas are ghettos. Thus, “residential segregation is a necessary but not a sufficient condition for ghettoization” (Wacquant, 2004). Based on Boal’s (1999) analysis of the processes and patterns of intra-urban ethnic segregation, four types of migrant “specialize”’ communities can be classified: 1) areas of assimilation-pluralism, where the host society is a large element in the local population, but does not form a majority; 2) mixed minority areas, shared by two or more ethnic groups; 3) polarized areas, with one minority group substantially encapsulated, forming at least 60 per cent of the population; 4) ghettos, which are characterized by a high degree of concentration of one minority group. In addition, a large share of the total minority population lives in this area. According to Peach (2001), one has to distinguish between ghettos and ethnic enclaves on the basis of the following differences (see Table

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