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Sri Lankans’ residential segregation and spatial inequalities in Southern Italy: an empirical analysis using fine-scale data on regular lattice geographies

Sri Lankans’ residential segregation and spatial inequalities in Southern Italy: an empirical analysis using fine-scale data on regular lattice geographies

Authors :
Federico Benassi
Francesca Bitonti
Angelo Mazza
Salvatore Strozza
Benassi, F.
Bitonti, F.
Mazza, A.
Strozza, S.
Source :
Quality & Quantity. 57:1629-1648
Publication Year :
2022
Publisher :
Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2022.

Abstract

Sri Lankans constitute one of Italy's oldest foreign communities. A comparative geographic study of Sri Lankans’ settlement patterns in three main municipalities of South Italy (Naples, Palermo, and Catania) is performed in the present work. The uniqueness of the analysis relies on the fact that, to the authors’ knowledge, no other existing studies comparatively examine the spatial segregation of Sri Lankan communities in different southern European municipalities. Moreover, implementing a single geographic reference grid allowed the homogenisation of different areal unit arrangements and the comparison between urban contexts. Original results have emerged from the empirical analysis, detecting peculiar and similar residential behaviour in Sri Lankans’ settlement patterns across the three municipalities analysed, jointly influenced by work specialisation and variations in the local cost of living. In particular, the high levels of Sri Lankan concentration detected in the wealthiest neighbourhoods revealed complex dynamics underlying the urban spatial segregation, beyond the mere centre-periphery dichotomy.

Details

ISSN :
15737845 and 00335177
Volume :
57
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
Quality & Quantity
Accession number :
edsair.doi.dedup.....be698e90461554f20f7f783d2ba07cf1
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11135-022-01434-5