Indicator history

According to some authors, social ethnic segregation is indeed a reality. In effect, analysing the segregation indexes for the main national groups living in the Lisbon Metropolitan Region some patterns can be underlined. Angolans, Santomese, and Guineas, present the higher scores for segregation. Segregation has been increasing progressively for some of the groups since the eighties, but in the nineties a noticeable reduction was registered among two of the most numerous foreign communities, Capeverdians and Brazilians. In a more recent paper and applying a different methodology to calculate the index, one of those authors claims that there is a generalised tendency to the reduction of segregation among the different nationality groups.

Sources:

Malheiros, J. (1998) “Segregação socioétnica na região metropolitana de Lisboa” [Social Ethnic Segregation in the Lisbon Metropolitan Region], in Sociedade e Território 30

Fonseca, L et al. (2002) “Imigrants in Lisbon. Routes of integration” in: Centro de Estudos Geográficos, Estudos para o planeamento Regional e Urbano  56

Malheiros, J and Vala, F. (2005) “A problemática da segregação residencial de base étnica – questões conceptuais e limites à operacionalização: o caso da Área Metropolitana de Lisboa”, in: Revista de Estudos Geográficos, 36, pp. 89-109