Is the Melting Pot Still Hot? Explaining the Resurgence of Immigrant Segregation
利用1910-2000年人口普查数据，发现美国移民居住隔离在20世纪上半叶下降，但近几十年上升，原因包括移民文化差异增大、本地人郊区化及公共交通衰落。
This paper uses decennial Census data to examine the residential integration of the foreign born in the United States between 1910 and 2000. Immigrant segregation declined in the first part of the century, but has been rising over the past few decades. Recent immigrants tend to hail from countries with greater cultural distinctions from U.S. natives, whether economic, racial, or linguistic. These factors explain much of the increase in segregation after 1970. Evidence also points to changes in urban form, particularly native-driven suburbanization and the decline of public transit as a transportation mode, as an explanation for the new immigrant segregation. Copyright by the President and Fellows of Harvard College and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.