Aspatial segregation

2008
united states

Aspatial segregation refers to the social and economic division of people along lines of race, class, or other factors, without a physical separation or geographic boundary. This type of segregation can still have a powerful impact on the opportunities and resources available to different groups of people, creating disparities in wealth, education, employment, and other areas of life. Examples of aspatial segregation can be seen in neighborhoods, schools, workplaces, and other community settings where certain groups of people are marginalized or excluded from full participation and access to resources.

Further reading

Cortes R.X.; Rey S.; Knaap E.; Wolf L.J. (2020) "An open source framework for non spatial and spatial segregation measures: the PySAL segregation module", Journal of Computational Social Science, 3(1), pp. 135-166. Springer. DOI: 10.1007/s42001-019-00059-3

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), pp. 489-514. Duke University Press. DOI: 10.1353/dem.0.0019