Changes in the residential location of immigration in Seville metropolitan area: From preference to residential restriction

Abstract

The processes of segregation and residential preference between the host society and different ethnic groups have produced a productive academic debate which it has been reflected among others in the so-called theories of threat and contact. This paper aims to contribute to this discussion by studying the spatial behavior of the immigrant population. For this purpose have been created two study groups according to their degree of rejection in Spanish society. The results in the metropolitan area of Seville during the period 2003-2013 show a clear separation between residential concentration´s areas of both groups. This division increases with the increase of economic immigration in Seville, reaffirming the already noted trend in other research to the preference of the host society by social and ethnically uniform neighborhoods.