Micro segregation

Date and country of first publication

2006
Israel; United States

Definition

Micro segregation refers to the subtle ways in which individuals or groups are separated or segregated from each other based on certain characteristics such as race, gender, religion, or socioeconomic status. It can manifest in various forms, such as exclusion from social events, unequal treatment, or unconscious bias. Micro segregation can have negative effects on individuals' well-being and can perpetuate larger systems of inequality and discrimination.

Synonyms

The following terms are synonymous with micro segregation:

micro level segregation; micro scale segregation; microscale segregation.

References and literature addressing this segregation form under these synonymous terms can be found below.

Related segregation forms

Micro segregation is frequently discussed in the literature with the following segregation forms:

residential segregation, social segregation, racial segregation, racial residential segregation, macro segregation, ethnic residential segregation, economic segregation, occupational segregation, gender segregation, occupational gender segregation, metropolitan racial segregation, spatial segregation, class segregation, ethnoracial segregation, neighborhood residential segregation, black residential segregation, neighborhood segregation, hispanic residential segregation, hispanic segregation, school segregation, income segregation

This visualization is based on the study The Multidisciplinary Landscape of Segregation Research.

For the complete network of interrelated segregation forms, please refer to:

• First year of publication

• Louvain clusters

• Betweenness centrality

• Disciplines in which segregation forms first emerged (Scopus database).

Notes

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Micro segregation appears in the following literature

Jerby I., Semyonov M., Lewin-Epstein N. (2006). On measures of gender occupational segregation: Statistical and conceptual considerations (a response to Grusky and Levanon). Sociological Methods and Research, 34(4), 573-586. https://doi.org/10.1177/0049124106286333

Reardon S.F., Matthews S.A., O'Sullivan D., Lee B.A., Firebaugh G., Farrell C.R., Bischoff K. (2008). The geographic scale of metropolitan racial segregation. Demography, 45(3), 489-514. Duke University Press.https://doi.org/10.1353/dem.0.0019

Lee B.A., Reardon S.F., Firebaugh G., Farrell C.R., Matthews S.A., O'Sullivan D. (2008). Beyond the census tract: Patterns and determinants of racial segregation at multiple geographic scales. American Sociological Review, 73(5), 766-791. American Sociological Association.https://doi.org/10.1177/000312240807300504

Massey D.S., Rothwell J., Domina T. (2009). The changing bases of segregation in the United States. Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 626(1), 74-90. https://doi.org/10.1177/0002716209343558

Reardon S.F., Farrell C.R., Matthews S.A., O'Sullivan D., Bischoff K., Firebaugh G. (2009). Race and space in the 1990s: Changes in the geographic scale of racial residential segregation, 1990 2000. Social Science Research, 38(1), 55-70. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssresearch.2008.10.002

Keddie J., Tonkiss F. (201). The market and the plan: Housing, urban renewal and socio economic change in London. City, Culture and Society, 1(2), 57-67. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ccs.2010.08.004

Parisi D., Lichter D.T., Taquino M.C. (2011). Multi scale residential segregation: Black exceptionalism and America's changing color line. Social Forces, 89(3), 829-852. https://doi.org/10.1353/sof.2011.0013

Flint S., Benenson I., Alfasi N. (2012). Between Friends and Strangers: Micro Segregation in a Haredi Neighborhood in Jerusalem. City and Community, 11(2), 171-197. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1540-6040.2012.01397.x

Manley D., Johnston R., Jones K., Owen D. (2015). Macro , Meso and Microscale Segregation: Modeling Changing Ethnic Residential Patterns in Auckland, New Zealand, 2001 2013. Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 105(5), 951-967. Routledge.https://doi.org/10.1080/00045608.2015.1066739

Östh J., Clark W.A.V., Malmberg B. (2015). Measuring the scale of segregation using k nearest neighbor aggregates. Geographical Analysis, 47(1), 34-49. Blackwell Publishing Inc..https://doi.org/10.1111/gean.12053

Lichter D.T., Parisi D., Taquino M.C. (2016). Emerging Patterns of Hispanic Residential Segregation: Lessons from Rural and Small Town America. Rural Sociology, 81(4), 483-518. Rural Sociological Society.https://doi.org/10.1111/ruso.12108

Jaczewska B., Grzegorczyk A. (2017). Residential Segregation at the Local Level in Poland. Case Studies for Praga Północ, Włochy and Ursynów. Miscellanea Geographica, 21(4), 168-178. Faculty of Geography and Regional Studies, University of Warsaw.https://doi.org/10.1515/mgrsd-2017-0032

Barberis E., Violante A. (2017). School segregation in four Italian metropolitan areas: Rescaling, governance and fragmentation of immigration policy. BELGEO, -. Societe Belge de Geographie.https://doi.org/10.4000/belgeo.19018

Flint Ashery S. (2018). Schelling type micro segregation in a Hassidic enclave of Stamford Hill. Housing Studies, 33(7), 1038-1059. Routledge.https://doi.org/10.1080/02673037.2017.1414160

Flint Ashery S. (2019). Horizontal Examination: Micro segregation Mechanism in the Diverse Area of Whitechapel. Urban Book Series, 25-34. Springer.https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-00602-0_2

Rogne A.F., Andersson E.K., Malmberg B., Lyngstad T.H. (202). Neighbourhood Concentration and Representation of Non European Migrants: New Results from Norway. European Journal of Population, 36(1), 71-83. Springer.https://doi.org/10.1007/s10680-019-09522-3

Flint Ashery S. (202). The hasidic communities of stamford hill and Canvey Island. Urban Book Series, 143-145. Springer.https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-25858-0_11

Flint Ashery S. (202). The hasidic community of stamford hill: Non economic micro segregation. Urban Book Series, 93-122. Springer.https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-25858-0_9

Underhill M.R. (2021). Managing Difference: White Parenting Practices in Socioeconomically Diverse Neighborhoods. City and Community, 20(2), 79-98. SAGE Publications Inc..https://doi.org/10.1177/1535684120981011

Maloutas T., Botton H. (2021). Vertical micro segregation: is living in disadvantageous lower floors in Athens’ apartment blocks producing negative social effects?. Housing Studies, -. Routledge.https://doi.org/10.1080/02673037.2021.2014414

Bharathi N., Malghan D., Mishra S., Rahman A. (2022). Residential segregation and public services in urban India. Urban Studies, 59(14), 2912-2932. SAGE Publications Ltd.https://doi.org/10.1177/00420980211072855

Ho H.K., Yip M. (2022). From micro to nano segregation: policy led vertical urbanism in Hong Kong. International Journal of Housing Policy, -. Routledge.https://doi.org/10.1080/19491247.2022.2148339

Quick M., Revington N. (2022). Exploring the global and local patterns of income segregation in Toronto, Canada: A multilevel multigroup modeling approach. Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science, 49(2), 637-653. SAGE Publications Ltd.https://doi.org/10.1177/23998083211021419