Doctoral Dissertation Research: Spatial Assimilation or Residential Segregation? A Comparative Study of Racial and Ethnic Minority Residential Patterns in Ireland and the U.S.

玛丽·沃茨（Mary Waters）Zoua Vang哈佛大学这篇博士论文改进研究比较了美国和爱尔兰共和国非洲移民的居住模式，以及种族居住隔离（或缺乏种族居住隔离）影响生活的方式这两个国家黑人的机会和福祉。共同PI将使用混合方法，利用来自美国和爱尔兰人口普查数据的传统隔离指数，GIS制图技术，以及对波士顿和都柏林大都市区非洲移民的深入采访。就都柏林而言，爱尔兰和东欧移民对照组也包括在内。这项研究扩展了现有的种族居住隔离的文献和理论。特别是，在评估“种族”在居住隔离过程中的中心地位时，研究将阐明居住隔离发生或不发生的条件和背景。考虑到种族，居住地和社会经济劣势之间的密切联系，在美国，这种比较研究检查这些相同的条件下，但在种族因素的变化，有望产生的见解，可能会揭示居住隔离及其负面影响可以改善的方式。通过对种族居住隔离的跨国比较，这项研究有助于移民，居住隔离，邻里效应，城市贫困，种族和民族关系等更大的领域。该研究在三个具体领域具有潜在的更广泛影响。首先，本研究通过本科生作为研究助理（RA）的参与，将研究活动与教学相结合。本科生RA将协助在都柏林招募参与者。驻地协调员还将接受定性面试技巧的培训，并有机会观察面试。将作出特别努力，从非洲和东欧移民社区招聘和培训本科生注册会计师。第二，这项研究将是哈佛大学和都柏林大学学院吉尔里研究所之间持续的国际机构合作的一部分。在爱尔兰实地考察期间，共同主要研究者已被授予吉尔里的访问研究员身份。最后，Geary研究人员和Co-PI计划通过一系列会议，研讨会和新闻稿向爱尔兰社区（包括政府官员和与移民人口合作的组织）传播研究成果。将作出类似的努力，向美国受众传播研究结果。

Mary Waters Zoua VangHarvard University This Doctoral Dissertation Improvement research compares the residential patterns of African immigrants in the United States and the Republic of Ireland and the ways in which racial residential segregation (or lack thereof) impacts the life chances and well being of blacks in these two countries. The co-PI will use a mix-method approach that utilizes traditional segregation indices derived from U.S. and Irish Census data, GIS mapping technology, as well as in-depth interviews with African immigrants in the Boston and Dublin metropolitan areas. In the case of Dublin, Irish and Eastern European immigrant control groups are included. The study extends existing literature and theories of racial residential segregation. In particular, in assessing the centrality of 'race' in the residential segregation process, the study will elucidate conditions and contexts under which residential segregation does or does not occur. Given the close associations between race, place of residence, and socioeconomic disadvantage in the United States, this comparative study examining these same conditions, but with variation in the race factor, promises to yield insights that may shed light on ways in which residential segregation and its negative effects can be ameliorated. Through a cross-national comparison of racial residential segregation, the study contributes to the larger fields of immigration, residential segregation, neighborhood effects, urban poverty, and race and ethnic relations.Broader Impacts. The study has potential broader impacts in three specific areas. First, the study integrates research activities with teaching through the participation of undergraduates as research assistants (RAs). Undergraduate RAs will assist in the recruitment of participants in Dublin. RAs will also be trained in qualitative interviewing techniques and given opportunities to observe interviews. Special efforts will be geared towards hiring and training undergraduate RAs from the African and Eastern European immigrant communities. Second, the study will be part of a continuing international institutional collaboration between Harvard University and the Geary Institute, University College Dublin. The Co-PI has been granted visiting researcher status at Geary for the duration of the fieldwork in Ireland. Finally, Geary researchers and the Co-PI plan to disseminate research results to the Irish community (including government officials and organizations working with immigrant populations) through a series of conferences, workshops and press releases. Similar endeavors will be made to disseminate findings from the study for a U.S. audience.