Neighbourhood Embeddedness in Six European Cities:
Differences Between Types of Neighbourhoods and Immigrant Background
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Institute for Urban and Regional Research (ISR) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences.
Publication date: 2013-01-02
Polish Sociological Review 2012;180(4):524-544
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This paper analyses neighbourhood embeddedness of immigrant and non-immigrant populations
in six European cities. We define neighbourhood embeddedness as an individual level concept and distinguish
two main dimensions: place and network embeddedness. The neighbourhood embeddedness concept
provides us with the possibility to study attitudinal and behavioural aspects of individuals related to the
place of living. Using data from the ‘Generating Interethnic Tolerance and Neighbourhood Integration in
European Urban Spaces’ (GEITONIES) project, we explore communalities and differences in the degree
of embeddedness and its underlyingmechanisms for immigrant and non-immigrant residents across a set of
different neighbourhood types. Our findings suggest that neighbourhoods are still important focal points
of social life. But immigrants are characterized by higher levels of neighbourhood embeddedness than
native residents which are mostly related to the strong link between perceived feelings of attachment to
the people in the neighbourhood and the place as such.