Immigration, new religious symbols, and the dynamics of neighborhoods
利用瑞典首次清真寺公开宣礼的政治事件,结合住房销售和内部迁移数据,研究新宗教象征对社区动态的影响,发现宣礼提升了附近房价,但未加剧本地人与移民的居住隔离。
Abstract Last decades' non‐western immigration to Europe has resulted in culturally and religiously more diverse populations in many countries. One manifestation of this diversification is new features in the cityscape. Using a quasiexperimental approach, in which an unexpected political process that led way to the first public call to prayer from a mosque in Sweden is combined with rich, daily, information on housing sales and detailed monthly information on internal migration, this paper examines how one such new feature affects neighborhood dynamics. While our results indicate that the calls to prayer increased house prices closer to the mosque, we find no evidence of increased residential segregation between natives and immigrants.