TY  - JOUR
A1  - Mägi, Kadi
A1  - van Ham, Maarten
A1  - Tammaru, Tiit
A1  - Leetmaa, Kadri
T1  - Types of spatial mobility and change in people's ethnic residential contexts
Y1  - 2016/06/28
JF  - Demographic Research
JO  - Demographic Research
SN  - 1435-9871
SP  - 1161
EP  - 1192
DO  - 10.4054/DemRes.2016.34.41
VL  - 34
IS  - 41
UR  - https://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol34/41/
L1  - https://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol34/41/34-41.pdf
L2  - https://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol34/41/34-41.pdf
N2  - Background: Most studies of the ethnic composition of destination neighbourhoods after residential moves do not take into account the types of moves people have made. However, from an individual perspective, different types of moves may result in neighbourhood environments which differ in terms of their ethnic composition from those in which the individuals previously lived. 

Objective: We investigate how the ethnic residential context changes for individuals as a result of different types of mobility (immobility, intra-urban mobility, suburbanisation, and long-distance migration) for residents of the segregated post-Soviet city of Tallinn. We compare the extent to which Estonian and Russian speakers integrate in residential terms. 

Methods: Using unique longitudinal Census data (2000-2011) we tracked changes in the individual ethnic residential context of both groups. 

Results: We found that the moving destinations of Estonian and Russian speakers diverge. When Estonians move, their new neighbourhood generally possesses a lower percentage of Russian speakers compared with when Russian speakers move, as well as compared with their previous neighbourhoods. For Russian speakers, the percentage of other Russian speakers in their residential surroundings decreases only for those who move to the rural suburbs or who move over longer distances to rural villages. 

Contribution: By applying a novel approach of tracking the changes in the ethnic residential context of individuals for all mobility types, we were able to demonstrate that the two largest ethnolinguistic groups in Estonia tend to behave as ‘parallel populations’ and that residential integration remains slow. 

ER  -