The intra-urban distribution of immigrants in the Spanish cities: an analysis of cases with GIS and quantitative techniques
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Abstract
The existence of areas and spaces differentiated for social, economic or ethnic matters are becoming more common in Spanish cities. The vulnerability of the situation for certain groups and the residential segregation that some of them are forced, especially foreign immigrants, constitute the object of study of this research.
This paper presents a dual purpose. On the one hand, the socio-spatial analysis done by GIS. The analysis will be supported on the application of a series of quantitative indexes of residential segregation in foreign immigrants from certain nationalities. On the other hand, the research will review their location patterns in the intra-urban scale in three of the biggest Spanish cities, Madrid, Barcelona and Sevilla. These cities will be addressed a comparative methodology and from a multi-scale perspective, which will serve to demonstrate and assess the pattern of spatial distribution of aforementioned group.