Understanding Changes in Patterns of Residential Mixing between Mexicans and Anglos in Southwest Cities

直到最近，种族隔离学者才开始认识到，社区族裔和种族构成的变化取决于城市环境，城市环境决定了家庭在决定社区搬迁或定居时的一系列选择。如果要揭示社区变化的复杂性，就必须更好地理解城市间隔离结构和住房市场变化的影响。拟议的研究将开发和评估西南城市社区变化的分层模型。该项目的第一阶段旨在确定社区和大都市层面的特征，这些特征与社区种族特征的快速变化有关，特别关注墨西哥和盎格鲁家庭组合的变化。该项目的第二阶段侧重于墨西哥人和盎格鲁人的社区选择，以及这些选择如何受到个人和家庭属性以及不同社区和样本中不同大都市地区的环境条件的影响。将使用多尺度方法，结合分层统计技术来分析多个尺度上的线性和非线性效应，使用地理信息系统来分析基于空间的社区属性，并分析来自收入动态小组研究的地理编码样本。

Only recently have segregation scholars begun to acknowledge that change in neighborhood ethnic and racial composition depends upon the urban context which defines the set of alternatives for households making decisions about neighborhood relocation or settlement. If the complexities of neighborhood change are to be unraveled, the effects of inter-city variations in segregation structure and housing markets must be better understood. The proposed research will develop and evaluate a hierarchical model of neighborhood change within cities of the Southwest. The first phase of the project is designed to identify neighborhood and metropolitan level characteristics associated with rapid changes in the ethnic character of neighborhoods with a specific focus on the changing mix of Mexican and Anglo households. The second stage of the project focuses on the neighborhood choices made by Mexicans and Anglos and how these choices are influenced by personal and household attributes in conjunction with contextual conditions that vary from one neighborhood to another and vary across the metropolitan areas in the sample. A multi-scale methodology will be used that incorporates hierarchical statistical techniques for analyzing linear and non-linear effects at several scales, geographical information systems to analyze spatially-based neighborhood attributes, and analysis of geo-coded samples from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics.