Residential segregation in The Netherlands by Bart Sleutjes

This eScience talk was presented at

4th National eScience Symposium
Social Data Session
13 October 2016, Amsterdam ArenA
https://www.esciencecenter.nl/....event/program/4th-na

SPEAKER: Bart Sleutjes - Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI)/ KNAW/ University of Groningen

TALK: Residential segregation in The Netherlands: adopting a multiscalar approach using individualized neighbourhoods

ABSTRACT: Comparative analyses of residential segregation with existing data are often hampered because the geographical units used in analyses differ in size, function and distribution between regions and over time. This presentation proposes an innovative measurement of segregation. Defining neighbourhoods from around individuals, regardless of administrative borders (‘individualized’ neighbourhoods), allows for a direct comparison of segregation levels across cities and countries. By varying the population size of individualized neighbourhoods, differences across spatial scales can be studied. Using Dutch microdata from the System of social statistical datasets (SSD), we analyze how the residential patterns of different migrants categories overlap with socioeconomic indicators.

ABOUT: Bart Sleutjes is a postdoctoral researcher at the Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI, The Hague). He has a background in human geography. After finishing the Research Master Metropolitan Studies at the University of Amsterdam, he obtained a Ph.D. in Economic Geography from Utrecht University in 2012.

His current work focuses on residential segregation in five European countries, within the JPI Urban Europe funded project ResSegr. Other topics he has worked on over the past years include neighbourhood effects on firm success and strategy, urban regeneration, location patterns of creative and knowledge-intensive industries, and the residential preferences of highly-skilled migrants.