Between Friends and Strangers

Micro–Segregation in a Haredi Neighborhood in Jerusalem

Bibliographic Data

ID12766264
AuthorsShlomit Flint (UCL Australia, corresponding author), Itzhak Benenson (0000-0003-0704-0673, Tel Aviv University), Nurit Alfasi (0000-0002-0403-1491, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev)
Year2012
Volume11
Issue2
Pages171-197
Publication date2012-06-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueCity and Community (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1535-6841 • E-ISSN: 1540-6040
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1111/j.1540-6040.2012.01397.x
OpenAlexW1968510798
LanguageEN
Citations received13
References cited46

Sanhedria, an inner–city neighborhood in Jerusalem, is populated mostly by members of several sects belonging to the Haredi (Jewish ultra–Orthodox) community. The Sanhedria case offers an opportunity to examine noneconomic processes of segregation. The paper examines residential relations between sects as reflected in their residential choices and the observed residential distribution. Sanhedria residents are close in economic status and share similar preferences regarding their way of life, yet powerful mechanisms of residential preferences acting at the level of the apartment and building result in “micro–segregation” patterns. Taken together, these mechanisms provide insight into processes typical of dense inner–city neighborhoods with multi–family housing and shared by differing religious or ethnic groups

Apartment · Archaeology · Distribution (mathematics · Ethnic group · Geography · Judaism · Political science · Sociology · Anthropology · Housing Market and Economics · Law · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies · Urbanization and City Planning