Thread: Natives Move Out When Immigrants Move In

Natives Move Out When Immigrants Move In
Article Date: 08 Feb 2011 - 4:00 PST



Native residents of a neighborhood are more likely to move out when immigrants move in, according to new research by three American sociologists.

"Neighborhood Immigration and Native Out-Migration" appears in the February issue of the American Sociological Review. Study authors are Kyle Crowder of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Matthew Hall of the University of Illinois-Chicago and Stewart E. Tolnay of the University of Washington.

The authors note that for native whites the tendency to leave areas with large and growing immigrant populations appears to be rooted in reactions to the racial composition of a neighborhood. In contrast, decreasing homeownership rates and increasing costs of housing in the neighborhood appear to be the primary impetus for native blacks to leave neighborhoods with large and growing immigrant populations.

However, large concentrations of immigrants in areas surrounding a neighborhood reduce the likelihood that native black and white residents of that neighborhood will leave. The scholars propose that this may be because these surrounding areas, which normally would be the most likely destinations for native householders seeking to relocate, become less attractive to those native householders when they contain larger immigrant populations.

The authors used data from a longitudinal survey of U.S. residents called the Panel Study of Income Dynamics linked to information on neighborhoods drawn from four U.S. Censuses. The research sample included 16,516 native-born, non-Latino white and non-Latino black heads of households from 1968 to 2005.

"While the settlement patterns of immigrants themselves are important, native-born residents' decisions to remain in diversifying neighborhoods or to flee in the face of growing immigrant concentrations are just as crucial in determining the trajectory of residential integration," said Crowder, the Howard W. Odum Distinguished Professor of Sociology in UNC's College of Arts and Sciences and a fellow of the Carolina Population Center.

"These findings have important implications for processes of immigrant incorporation, patterns of neighborhood change and broader systems of residential segregation," he said.


Crowder researches social demography, racial and ethnic stratification, residential mobility and migration, residential segregation, neighborhood dynamics and urban politics and development.

Hall is an assistant professor in the department of sociology and the Institute of Government and Public Affairs at the University of Illinois-Chicago. His central research interests are in urban sociology, social demography, migration/immigration and labor markets.

Tolnay is S. Frank Miyamoto Professor of Sociology at the University of Washington. His recent research and publications have focused on the Great Migration of African-Americans.

Source:
Daniel Fowler
American Sociological Association



http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/215922.php

Thats not news...Heck when the illegals start to move into a neighborhood the crime rate goes up, the neighborhood gets run down, the streets become unsafe and unfit for families to walk. Want a getto??? Invite the illegals to move in.

This is exactly why 50% or more of the adult population of NYC is foreign born today.

If ICE arrests all the illegals in NYC, no one will be able to get a cab.

Just because we don't like that awful music blaring day and night, sixteen cars in every driveway, kids running wild, and hearing more Spanish than English? Not to mention crowded emergency rooms and illegal mamas with food stamps for their babies in line at the grocery.

Originally Posted by BillCunnane

If ICE arrests all the illegals in NYC, no one will be able to get a cab.

There's an old joke that says "If you hail a cab in NYC and the driver speaks perfect English get out fast, he's not a cabbie and is going to rob you."

Gee, thanks for telling us what everyone already knows.

W

Another prime example of how multi-culturalism has failed.

I grew up in a neighborhood that was off a guesstimate 60% white, 25% black, 15% asian. Yet we did fairly well but why? Well first off while we had a mix of races we all considered ourselves Americans who followed the same law, usually the same religion and if not at least the same morals and values. Sure there were a few small differences but the noone gave a damn that your neighbor was white, black, or Asian. hell, you'd be over next door during the summer enjoying that all American favorite summer past-time also known as a BBQ, and the next week the neighbor would be at your house for yours.

But now your neighbor to the right won't touch pork, won't be within 100 feet of alcohol, has to require woman to wear headscarves, and degrades the Bible constantly.

Your neighbor to the left has 7 kids who have no disipline, doesn't seem to work but always has money, fly's a flag of some other country, doesn't speak the language of THIS country but some foreign country, and thinks they deserve everything.

Your neighbor across the street speaks your language only when it suits them, has a business they constantly talk about including how it was all paid for by uncle same, is always on a cell talking in a foreign language to someone around the world, and goes on about how soon their entire family from whatever country will soon be there to join in.

The neighbor behind your house, well don't even know them other then their 16 year old daughter just was sent back to a foreign country for some arranged marriage for money so that family also has access to chain immigration. The other daughter suddenly vanished a few months ago as well for unknown reasons in the middle of the night.