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

哈佛大学博士论文改进研究比较了非洲移民在美国和爱尔兰共和国的居住模式，以及种族居住隔离（或缺乏种族居住隔离）对这两个国家黑人生活机会和福祉的影响。联合调查将采用一种混合方法，利用从美国和爱尔兰人口普查数据中得出的传统种族隔离指数、GIS制图技术，以及对波士顿和都柏林大都市地区的非洲移民进行深入访谈。在都柏林，爱尔兰和东欧移民控制组也包括在内。本研究扩展了现有的关于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，该研究将阐明居住隔离发生或不发生的条件和背景。考虑到美国种族、居住地和社会经济劣势之间的密切联系，这项研究考察了同样的条件，但种族因素有所不同，有望为改善居住隔离及其负面影响的方式提供启示。通过对种族居住隔离的跨国比较，该研究为移民、居住隔离、邻里效应、城市贫困以及种族和民族关系等更广泛的领域做出了贡献。更广泛的影响。这项研究可能在三个具体领域产生更广泛的影响。首先，本研究通过本科生作为研究助理（RAs）参与，将研究活动与教学相结合。本科RAs将协助在都柏林招募参与者。助理助理还将接受定性访谈技巧方面的培训，并给予机会观察访谈。将作出特别努力，雇用和训练来自非洲和东欧移民社区的本科注册会计师。其次，这项研究将成为哈佛大学和都柏林大学学院Geary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，该联合调查人员被授予Geary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、讲习班和新闻稿向爱尔兰社区（包括政府官员和从事移民人口工作的组织）传播研究成果。将采取类似的努力向美国观众传播这项研究的结果。

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.