Moving: Patterns of Immigrant Settlement and Spatial Mobility

Immigrant Settlement Patterns in Manchester and Leeds 1881

This paper examines the 19 century Jewish immigrant quarters of Manchester and Leeds. It uses original census data to look at the entire population of the two areas of initial settlement. Analysis of family and kin structure, occupations of head of household, country of origin and length of time in the country as well as analysis of the settlement patterns at the street-level are combined to ex...

Patterns of low-income settlement and mobility in Nairobi, Kenya

The author traces the development of low-incoming housing zones in the city of Nairobi (Kenya), which were initially shaped by the exclusive urban policies of the British Colonial Government, and further influenced by minimum standards codes established after Independence. Using a random sample of 1,480 heads of households, the author examines zones of entry into the city, with a view to identi...

Dynamics of Immigrant Settlement in Los Angeles: Upward Mobility, Arrival, and Exodus

Considering Mobility Patterns in Moving Objects Database

What is important in location-aware services is how to track moving objects efficiently. To this end, an efficient protocol which updates location information in a location server is highly needed. In fact, the performance of a location update strategy highly depends on the assumed mobility pattern. In most existing works, however, the mobility issue has been disregarded and too simplified as l...

Immigrant Settlement Policies and Subsequent Migration

Many countries consider the residential concentration among immigrants a problem. This paper studies the factors influencing individual location decisions and evaluates a Swedish attempt to change the residential distribution of refugee immigrants in the late 1980’s. Despite common perceptions, I find that the evidence on increased secondary migration after the policy shift is very weak. Since ...