Barrios étnicos en ciudades medias catalanas

Abstract

The largest absolute and relative concentration of foreign population in Spain is com be found in the totality medium-sized cities. It is in these, where intensity of the migration impact is most visible due to less complex and diverse social structures than those that can be observed in large urban areas. The inframunicipal distribution of this population responds to a series of complex and interrelated factors. The geographic origin, socioeconomic status and structural elements related to housing characteristics and housing market are some of the components that come into play in urban residential itineraries of the foreign population.

Through analysis of seventy-three census tracts of eleven Catalan medium-sized cities, the relationship between the logic of residential settlement of the foreign population and the characteristics and structure of urban space that influence residential segregation of the foreign population is studied.