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Title: Supplemental infrastructure: how community networks and immigrant identity influence cycling
Citation Type: Journal Article
Publication Year: 2020
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ISSN: 0049-4488
DOI: 10.1007/s11116-018-9955-7
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Abstract: While factors such as urban form, infrastructure, and attitudes shape cycling behavior, the experience of cycling can vary drastically across socioeconomic and identity groups. For foreign-born residents of the United States, additional factors associated with income and cultural context may influence cycling. In this study, I ask how factors associated with being an immigrant, such as economic status, cultural habits, residential location, and social environments, motivate or deter cycling. Results are based on 23 in-depth interviews with low-income Latino immigrants in the San Francisco Bay Area. Interviews reveal that close-knit social networks buoyed by support from immigrant-serving organizations encourage cycling, providing social infrastructure where other types of infrastructure may be absent. However, neighborhood safety is a significant deterrent that men and women respond to in different ways. Other effects, such as gentrification, immigrant experiences, and cultural narratives, shape individuals’ perceptions of belonging as a cyclist in their neighborhood. Findings suggest that planners should collaborate with immigrant-serving community organizations and be more centrally involved in addressing neighborhood conditions and their effects on travel.
Url: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11116-018-9955-7
Url: http://link.springer.com/10.1007/s11116-018-9955-7
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Authors: Barajas, Jesus M.
Periodical (Full): Transportation
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Volume: 47
Pages: 1251-1274
Data Collections: IPUMS USA
Topics: Migration and Immigration, Other
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