Aspatial segregation

Date and country of first publication

2008
United States

Definition

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.

Related segregation forms

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

residential segregation, racial segregation, racial residential segregation, metropolitan racial segregation, micro segregation, spatial 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).

Aspatial segregation appears in the following literature

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

Cortes R.X., Rey S., Knaap E., Wolf L.J. (202). An open source framework for non spatial and spatial segregation measures: the PySAL segregation module. Journal of Computational Social Science, 3(1), 135-166. Springer.https://doi.org/10.1007/s42001-019-00059-3