Suburbanization Patterns of Racial and Ethnic Groups

美国仍然是一个多种族和多民族的国家。 在工业社会中， 持续不断的移民潮， 民族和种族群体之间的社会关系。 中 与过去不同的模式，种族和族裔少数 越来越多地出现在大都市的郊区， 而不是中心城市。 该项目解决了 通过对郊区化的研究， 在五个主要的种族/族裔群体中， 大都市区 这项研究远远超出了过去对郊区化的研究， 关注郊区的差异， 不同的群体获得访问权。 它还审查了差异 在主要种族/族裔类别内（例如， 亚洲人中的中国人和日本人）。 该分析将 调查少数群体成员如何获得住所， 具有积极影响生活质量的特征 以及居民的生存机会 调查人员将 估计模型，将位置结果视为 社会经济、同化和生命周期特征 并将测试这些模型是否因种族而异 集团和跨大都市区。 此外，调查人员 将分析个人的能力，以“转换”他们的 社会经济和同化特征转化为有利的 居民分配。

The United States continues to be a multiracial and multiethnic society, standing out among industrial societies in the magnitude of continuing waves of immigration and in the depth of concern over social relations among ethnic and racial groups. In a pattern at variance with the past, racial and ethnic minorities are increasingly found in the suburbs of metropolitan areas, rather than their central cities. This project addresses the significance of this trend by studying the suburbanization patterns for a wide range of racial/ethnic groups in five major metropolitan areas. The study goes well beyond past research on suburbanization by focusing on differences among the suburban places to which different groups gain access. It also examines differences within major racial/ethnic categories (for instance, between the Chinese and Japanese among Asians). The analysis will investigate how minority-group members attain residence in places with characteristics that affect positively the quality of life and life chances of their residents. The investigators will estimate models that view locational outcomes as a function of the socioeconomic, assimilation, and life-cycle characteristics of individuals, and will test whether these models vary by ethnic group and across metropolitan areas. Further, the investigators will analyze the ability of individuals to "convert" their socioeconomic and assimilation characteristics into favorable residenti allocations.