Residential segregation: Residential patterns of Polish immigrants in Reykjavík

• Main Author: Stefánsson, Kolbeinn H.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: Icelandic
• Published: Félagsfræðingafélag Íslands 2023
• Subjects: Innflytjendur; búsetumynstur; Reykjavík; aðskilnaður; Immigration; residential patterns; Reykjavik; segregation; Iceland
• Online Access: https://ojs.hi.is/index.php/tf/article/view/3918

This article examines the residential segregation of polish immigrants in Reykjavik relative to people with and Icelandic background living there. Residential segregation gives indications about how well the immigrant group has integrated into their host society and has implications for immigrant well-being as well as future opportunities for their children. The analysis presented are descriptive statistics, correlation coefficients and indexes of dissimilarity used to compare residential patterns of polish immigrants with people with an Icelandic background on the basis of Reykjavik city school districts. The results suggest that the residential segregation of polish immigrants in Reykjavik is low to moderate. Nevertheless, there are two areas in Reykjavik where Polish immigrants are concentrated. In one area the immigrants tend to have lower incomes and have lived in Iceland for a shorter time than in the other area. The Polish immigrants with the longest stay and the highest incomes, however, tend to live in areas with few other Polish immigrants. The results align most closely with theories of segmented assimilation. However, they may also reflect a particular phase in the integration of Polish immigrants into Icelandic society that in the long-run may develop more in line with classical assimilation theory. Í þessari grein er fjallað um búsetumynstur pólskra innflytjenda í Reykjavík í samanburði við borgarbúa með íslenskan bakgrunn út frá. Búsetumynstur innflytjenda gefa vísbendingu um aðlögun þeirra að og inngildingu í samfélagið sem þeir flytja til og getur að auki haft umtalsverð áhrif á lífsgæði þeirra og framtíðarmöguleika barna þeirra. Niðurstöðurnar byggja á skráargögnum Hagstofu Íslands. Auk lýsandi tölfræði og fylgnigreininga er notast við svokallaða ólíkindavísitölu (e. index of dissimilarity) til að bera saman búsetumynstur eftir skólahverfum Reykjavíkurborgar. Horft er til þess hvernig fjárhagur innflytjenda og lengd búsetu hefur áhrif á búsetumynstur. Niðurstöðurnar benda til þess að ...