Volume 76, Number 5, 447-467, DOI: 10.1007/s10708-010-9366-6

Using spatial statistics to identify and characterise ethnoburbs: establishing a methodology using the example of Auckland, New Zealand

Ron Johnston, Michael Poulsen and James Forrest

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Abstract

Recent studies in the United States and other Pacific Rim countries have identified a new form of ethnic minority group clustering within the residential mosaic—ethnoburbs. These are suburban in location, occupied by relatively high-income, predominantly Asian, immigrants, and low density in their nature: many migrants move directly to those suburbs rather than the inter-generational outward migration from central city clusters typical of other migrant streams. Although ethnoburb residents tend to cluster in particular segments of the built-up area they do not to form large percentages of the population there. As yet, no methodology has been developed to identify these clusters, as a prelude to identifying their characteristics. This paper offers such a procedure, based on local statistical analysis. It is applied to six Asian groups in Auckland, New Zealand.

Keywords  Ethnic segregation – Ethnoburbs – Asians – Auckland

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