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Garrido, Marco – Social Forces, 2013
The literature on cities in the developing world equates segregation with the proliferation of enclaves and slums and tends to overlook how the people associated with those places are further segregated in public spaces and enclaves. To account for the symbolic partitioning of Metro Manila, I document the segregating practices of the residents of…
Descriptors: Ghettos, Slums, Residential Patterns, Foreign Countries
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Alba, Richard; Silberman, Roxane – Teachers College Record, 2009
Background/Context: The educational fate of the children of low-wage immigrants is a salient issue in all the economically developed societies that have received major immigration flows since the 1950s. The article considers the way in which educational systems in the two countries structure the educational experiences and shape the opportunities…
Descriptors: Middle Class, Mexican Americans, Residential Patterns, Educational Attainment
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Healy, Julie – Children & Society, 2006
Research continues to illustrate the resonance and intensity of feeling that attachment to a locality can generate, within this highlighting the gender-specific impacts created by the intersection of ethnicity and locality. Within the ethnically segregated working class communities of Belfast, the importance of locality takes on added…
Descriptors: Working Class, Protestants, Females, Conflict