1st Edition

Living Together Apart? Ethnic Concentration in the Neighbourhood and Ethnic Minorities' Social Contacts and Language Practise

By Miranda Vervoort Copyright 2011
250 Pages
by Netherlands Institute for Social Research

In recent years, ethnic residential concentration and negative consequences in ethnic minority neighborhoods have increased. This volume presents scientific knowledge and contributes to the societal debate by studying the effects of ethnic residential concentration on ethnic minoritiesAE social contacts and language practices. The study indicates that ethnic residential concentration is related to... Read more

Biography

Miranda Vervoort obtained her research master’s degree in educational sciences in 2007 from Radboud University Nijmegen and conducted the present research, employed at the Netherlands Institute for Social Research (SCP) and the department of sociology/ICS of Utrecht University, Netherlands.