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Bottia, Martha Cecilia – Poverty & Race Research Action Council, 2019
This report examines the effects of school and residential segregation on immigrant children's outcomes. The first part of the report is an in-depth consideration of the extant scholarly literature on this topic. The author discusses the current situation of immigrants in the United States, offers a definition of immigrants, and mentions several…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Social Integration, School Segregation, Housing
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Mitchell, Douglas E.; Batie, Michael; Mitchell, Ross E. – Urban Education, 2010
This article examines a half century of housing and school segregation data in two large California school districts. Based on a review of both the methods and the substantive data available tracking the relationship between school and housing integration, the study reported here shows that very substantial school-level integration in these two…
Descriptors: School Desegregation, School Segregation, Housing, Urban Areas
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London, Andrew S.; Parker, Wendy M. – Journal of Family Issues, 2009
The authors use data from the 1992 National Health and Social Life Survey to examine the association between incarceration and living arrangements, net of a range of sociodemographic and early life characteristics. Relative to living with a spouse and child(ren), there is evidence that a history of incarceration is strongly associated with…
Descriptors: Family (Sociological Unit), Correctional Institutions, Institutionalized Persons, Context Effect
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Randall, James; Kitchen, Peter; Williams, Allison – Social Indicators Research, 2008
Why people move, their well-being or self-assessed quality of life and the impact that this has on the stability of neighbourhoods are linked in many ways. One of the expected outcomes related to the attachment to and meaning of place is the level of intra-urban mobility by individuals and families. Those who have negative or neutral feelings…
Descriptors: Socioeconomic Status, Quality of Life, Telephone Surveys, Foreign Countries
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Braddock, Jomills Henry, II; Gonzalez, Amaryllis Del Carmen – Teachers College Record, 2010
Background/Context: The United States is becoming increasingly racially and ethnically diverse, and increasingly racially isolated across race-ethnic boundaries. Researchers have argued that both diversity and racial isolation serve to undermine the social cohesion needed to bind American citizens to one another and to society at large. Focus of…
Descriptors: African American Students, Neighborhoods, Race, Elementary Secondary Education
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Stearns, Elizabeth – Teachers College Record, 2010
Background/Context: Perpetuation theory predicts that attending a racially segregated school paves the way for a lifetime of segregated experiences in neighborhoods, schools, and jobs. Research conducted in the 1970s and 1980s linked racial isolation in high schools with later racial isolation in many social settings among African-American…
Descriptors: African American Students, Neighborhoods, High Schools, Race