Suburbanization Patterns of Racial and Ethnic Groups

美国仍然是一个多种族和多民族的社会，在不断涌入的移民潮和对族裔和种族群体之间社会关系的深切关注方面，美国在工业社会中脱颖而出。与过去不同的是，种族和少数民族越来越多地出现在大都市的郊区，而不是中心城市。该项目通过研究五个主要大都市地区广泛种族/民族群体的郊区化模式，阐述了这一趋势的意义。这项研究远远超出了以往对郊区化的研究，重点关注不同群体进入的郊区地区之间的差异。它还考察了主要种族/民族类别内的差异(例如，亚洲人中的中国人和日本人之间的差异)。分析将调查少数民族成员如何在具有对其居民的生活质量和生活机会产生积极影响的特点的地方获得居住权。研究人员将评估将区位结果视为个人社会经济、同化和生命周期特征函数的模型，并将测试这些模型是否因种族和大都市地区而异。此外，研究人员将分析个人将其社会经济和同化特征“转化”为有利的居民分配的能力。

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.