This article studied the effect of co-ethnics' presence on immigrants' geographic mobility in France and found a strong negative and highly robust effect for co-ethnicity on the probability of moving out.
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This article provides empirical results on patterns of native and immigrant geographic mobility in France. Using longitudinal data, we measure mobility from one French municipality (commune) to another over time and estimate the effect of the initial municipality’s ethnic composition on the probability of moving out. These data allow us to use panel techniques to correct for biases related to selection based on geographic and individual unobservables. Our findings tend to discredit the hypothesis of a “white flight” pattern in residential mobility dynamics in France. Some evidence does show ethnic avoidance mechanisms in natives’ relocating. We also find a strong negative and highly robust effect of co-ethnics’ presence on immigrants’ geographic mobility.
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This article provides empirical results on patterns of native and immigrant geographic mobility in France.
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Geographic categorization issues may also be at stake: because this study relies on data at the municipality level, the authors can not dismiss the possibility that some native flight dynamics might be at play at a smaller contextual scale. Their analyses suggest otherwise, however, given that their findings are not sensitive to the definition of residential mobility. Some qualitative studies suggest that subsidized housing agencies practiced ethnoracial profiling of tenants, which may partly explain the increasing pattern of ethnic segregation within public housing ( Tissot 2005 ). Middleclass natives may be able to reject the first housing offer ( partly motivated by a location ’ s ethnic composition ), but immigrant families are more likely to be desperately in need of a place to live, and thus inclined to take the first offer even if it is in the least desirable neighborhood.