Immigration, new religious symbols, and the dynamics of neighborhoods
(2020) In Journal of Regional Science 60(5). p.929-958- Abstract
Last decades' non-western immigration to Europe has resulted in culturally and religiously more diverse populations in many countries. One manifestation of this diversification is new features in the cityscape. Using a quasiexperimental approach, in which an unexpected political process that led way to the first public call to prayer from a mosque in Sweden is combined with rich, daily, information on housing sales and detailed monthly information on internal migration, this paper examines how one such new feature affects neighborhood dynamics. While our results indicate that the calls to prayer increased house prices closer to the mosque, we find no evidence of increased residential segregation between natives and immigrants.
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- author
- Blind, Ina LU and Dahlberg, Matz
- organization
- publishing date
- 2020-11
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- call to prayer, house prices, migration, quasiexperiment
- in
- Journal of Regional Science
- volume
- 60
- issue
- 5
- pages
- 30 pages
- publisher
- Halifax
- external identifiers
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- scopus:85085144702
- ISSN
- 0022-4146
- DOI
- 10.1111/jors.12489
- language
- English
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- yes
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- c778c753-5dea-435a-bb7d-ae22b9115de4
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abstract = {{<p>Last decades' non-western immigration to Europe has resulted in culturally and religiously more diverse populations in many countries. One manifestation of this diversification is new features in the cityscape. Using a quasiexperimental approach, in which an unexpected political process that led way to the first public call to prayer from a mosque in Sweden is combined with rich, daily, information on housing sales and detailed monthly information on internal migration, this paper examines how one such new feature affects neighborhood dynamics. While our results indicate that the calls to prayer increased house prices closer to the mosque, we find no evidence of increased residential segregation between natives and immigrants.</p>}},
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title = {{Immigration, new religious symbols, and the dynamics of neighborhoods}},
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doi = {{10.1111/jors.12489}},
volume = {{60}},
year = {{2020}},
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