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Ethnic Residential Segration in Belgium: testing and adjusting the Ecological Perspective, Spatial Assimilation and the Discrimination Theory.
This research aims at extending the scientific knowledge about the causes of ethnic residential segregation (ERS). More specifically, three traditional (American) theories to explain ERS are tested in and adjusted to the Belgian context. These three theories are the Ecological Perspective, the Spatial Assimilation Thoery and the Discrimination theory.
Date:1 Oct 2013 → 30 Sep 2018
Keywords:Ethnic Residential Segregation, Discrimination Theory, Spatial Assimilation, Ecological Perspective
Disciplines:Social theory and sociological methods, Recreation, leisure and tourism geography, Urban and regional design, development and planning, Human geography, Social psychology, Sociology of life course, family and health, Other sociology and anthropology, Urban and regional geography, Other social and economic geography, Economic geography, Social stratification, Applied sociology, Policy and administration