Ethno-social spatial structure of the population in London, Paris, Madrid, Berlin, and Moscow
Abstract
The processes of socio-ethnic territorial differentiation in Moscow are compared to the situation in specifically selected largest European capitals such as London, Paris, Madrid and Berlin. Mass inter-ethnic crashes over the last 20 years in European cities such as London, Paris and many others, demonstrate the social tension in the region. The analysis of the residential real estate prices using the author’s methodology allows determining their effect on the immigrants’ settlement pattern. The author attempts to compare Moscow with other European capitals and identify the features of social differentiation under the lack of comparable statistical information about immigrants.
It was revealed that a highly mosaic distribution of housing prices is characteristic of London. In Greater Paris the city of Paris is highly dominant, and the Department of Seine-Saint-Denis is distinguished by the low cost of housing and a large concentration of immigrants. The expensive housing zones of Madrid are in the central areas and greener northwestern districts. In terms of housing prices Berlin is more contrasted than in the immigrants’ settlement pattern. The prices have rather small influence on the immigrants’ settlement pattern. The center-peripheral distribution of the residential real estateprices is characteristic of Moscow, and there are also zones of more expensive housing in the western part of the city and close to the exit avenues.
The number and share of immigrants are as significant, as the immigration stages, the immigrants’ composition, the migration policy, and the residential real estate price distribution. It was shown that the immigration processes in Moscow are just as pronounced as in other cities; however the "internal" migrants are probably by and large responsible for the ethnic tensions in the city.
Keywords
settlement of immigrants,
territorial differentiation in housing prices,
socio-ethnic stratification,
Europe’s largest capitals
Supporting agencies: The article was prepared within the study financially supported by the Russian Science Foundation (RSF) (project no. 19-18-00251) and realized at the MGIMO-University of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia (MFA Russia).
About the Author
D. P. Shatilo
Institute of Scientific Information on Social Sciences (INION)
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Scientific Researcher, PhD in Geography
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