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Title: Immigration and sprawl: Residential location choice in three gateway metropolitan areas of the United States

Citation Type: Conference Paper

Publication Year: 2004

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Abstract: In the United States, rapid suburbanization has recently coincided with large-scale immigration, which leads many to link the two. This paper examines location choices of immigrants, first considering suburbanization as a cross-sectional pattern. Results indicate that race/ethnicity and immigrant status are among the most salient determinants, trumping other factors, e.g., life-cycle stages and socioeconomic status. Immigrants become more dispersed over time; but the propensity is far shy of that of natives and whites. Suburbanization is also treated a process aided by mobility, homeownership, and acculturation. Immigrants are reluctant to own homes in dispersed areas, and do not suburbanize in a pace substantially faster than natives. Evidence does not support the claim that immigration leads to dispersed patterns of land usethe main characteristic of sprawl.

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Authors: Yu, Zhou

Conference Name: ACSP Annual Conference

Publisher Location: Portland, OR

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Migration and Immigration

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