Minorities moving out from minority-rich neighbourhoods

Does School Ethnic Context Matter in Inter-Generational Residential Desegregation

Bibliographic Data

ID2234993
AuthorsKadi Kalm (0000-0002-2983-2447, University of Tartu, corresponding author), David Leonard Knapp (University of Tartu), David Knapp (0000-0002-9469-0692, University of Tartu), Anneli Kährik (0000-0003-2854-4213, University of Tartu), Kadri Leetmaa (0000-0002-4418-5022, University of Tartu), Tiit Tammaru (0000-0003-1590-1269, University of Tartu)
Year2024
Volume40
Issue2
Pages208-225
Publication date2024-04-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueEuropean Sociological Review (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0266-7215 • E-ISSN: 1468-2672
PublisherOxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1093/esr/jcad025
OpenAlexW4367366313
LanguageEN
Citations received9
References cited49

This paper aims to develop a fuller understanding of the relationship between the ethnic composition of childhood residential neighbourhoods, schools, and residential neighbourhoods later in life in producing and reproducing segregation. We apply a longitudinal research design on linked individual-level data from Estonia. Estonia is an interesting case because of the Soviet era population distribution policies and its ubiquitous state-funded educational system where minority parents can choose in which school-Russian-language or Estonian-language-their children study. We find that minority parents mostly opt for minority-dense schools and, if they do so, their children who grew up in minority-dense neighbourhoods also end up living in minority-dense neighbourhoods as adults. An inter-generational vicious circle of segregation forms. However, minority children who live in minority-dense neighbourhoods but study in majority-dense schools are more likely to end up living in majority-dense neighbourhoods later in life. Hence, intervening in school choice has the potential to contribute to inter-generational residential desegregation

Context (archaeology) · Demographic economics · Desegregation · Ethnic group · Geography · Political science · Population · Sociology · Demography · Gender Studies · Public Administration · Rural development and sustainability · School Choice and Performance · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies