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Integration, Polarization, and Segregation in the Global City

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Migrant Integration in Times of Economic Crisis

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Analyses of the Great Recession following the 2008 financial crash have neglected its effects on migrants and their integration into Western societies. This section disentangles the relevant theoretical debates and sets up the subsequent empirical analysis. Global cities scholars expect serious economic crises to widen socio-spatial polarization, sharpening inequalities and leaving neighborhoods with greater concentrations of residents with similar ethnic and social class backgrounds. Cities must resist the negative effects on migrants’ structural and residential integration to secure long-term stability and prosperity. At the same time, cultural diversity, particularly its manifestation in ethnic neighborhoods, is a valuable asset for a “creative” city in the competition with other urban centers. This celebration of ethnicity runs counter to worries about the disintegrative effects of spreading socio-spatial divisions.

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Ireland, P.R. (2017). Integration, Polarization, and Segregation in the Global City. In: Migrant Integration in Times of Economic Crisis. Europe in Crisis. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-58100-2_1

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