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The Segregated City a Nordic Overview the Segregated City a Nordic Overview Moa Tunström and Shinan Wang The segregated city A nordic overview The segregated city A nordic overview Moa Tunström and Shinan Wang Nord 2019:007 ISBN 978-92-893-6055-5 (PRINT) ISBN 978-92-893-6056-2 (PDF) ISBN 978-92-893-6057-9 (EPUB) http://dx.doi.org/10.6027/Nord2019-007 © Nordic Council of Ministers 2019 Layout: Agnete Schepelern and Frederik Storm Photos: Jonas Jacobsson / Unsplash Nordic co-operation Nordic co-operation is one of the world’s most extensive forms of regional collaboration, involving Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, the Faroe Islands, Greenland, and Åland. Nordic co-operation has firm traditions in politics, the economy, and culture. It plays an important role in European and international collaboration, and aims at creating a strong Nordic community in a strong Europe. Nordic co-operation seeks to safeguard Nordic and regional interests and principles in the global community. Shared Nordic values help the region solidify its position as one of the world’s most innovative and competitive. Nordic Council of Ministers Nordens Hus Ved Stranden 18 DK-1061 Copenhagen www.norden.org Download and order Nordic publications from www.norden.org/nordpub 2 The segregated city Contents 5 Preamble 6 Segregation as a challenge to the self-perception of the Nordics 8 The many indicators 16 Who are actually segregated? 18 The importance of housing policy 27 Housing for refugees and asylum seekers 28 Neighbourhood effects and the built environment 30 Discrimination and stigmatization 32 The city as a whole is segregated 34 Description of maps and charts 36 References 3 4 Preamble The Nordic countries are similar to each other in many ways. They are peripheral and sparsely populated welfare states where the urban structures are dominated by small and medium-sized cities. There are also similarities when it comes to residen- tial segregation, which is some-thing that has been debated and is often referred to when discuss- ing welfare, socio-economic inequality and immi- gration. While it is possible to talk about a Nordic welfare son model, there are differences in housing policy E Johans and post-war urban development, for example, K that illustrate the significance of national and local politics and that make the Nordic context o: Joakim t particularly interesting. Segregated cities challenge Pho Nordic self-image and ideals. Please note that this publication is largely This report is part of a section on segregation based on a previously published report from within the project Nordic collaboration for inte- Nordregio, Segregated cities and planning for gration. The project aims to facilitate collabora- social sustainability - a Nordic perspective tion between the Nordic countries when it comes (Nordregio Working Paper 2016:3). Parts of to the integration of refugees and migrants – an the report have been abbreviated and edited. initiative from the Nordic Council of Ministers. In addition, new maps have been made by The Nordic Welfare Centre is cooperating with Shinan Wang, Nordregio. Nordregio for the project and would like to give its profound thanks to the author Moa The original report was written by Moa Tunström. Tunström, Timothy Anderson and Liisa Perjo at Nordregio, and can be downloaded from Eva Franzén, Director, Nordic Welfare Centre www.nordregio.org 5 Segregation as a challenge to the self-perception of the Nordics In its most common usage, urban segregation urban district can be difficult to copy. Cities and refers to the separation of social groups at the districts are not exact copies of each other, and residential level of an urban area. Issues related to they are governed in different ways. This has segregation and integration are major respon- implications on what kind of integration policy sibilities and challenges for cities, and a segre- that is needed or considered successful. gated urban environment can be understood as a symptom of wider social injustices. While The Nordic countries are similar in many respects. demographic changes in European cities of They are remote, sparsely populated welfare course bring new skills, jobs, opportunities, and states that contain small and medium-sized lifestyles, they also confront planners and public cities and there are similarities with respect to actors with challenges of discrimination and patterns of urban segregation. Results from a inequalities. People migrate as refugees from range of studies indicate that urban segregation conflict zones, for work opportunities and better is increasing in the Nordics, and this is commonly life chances, or from rural areas to urban areas understood as a hindrance to public service effi- within their own country. cacy, economic growth and social sustainability. In this brief overview of current research on In their overview of ethnic residential segrega- residential segregation the focus is on structural tion in the Nordic countries excluding Iceland, reasons to segregation. This means that it Andersson et al (2010) note of Sweden: “ethnic is planning policies and tendencies in socio- residential segregation is a salient feature of all economic development that are discussed, larger Swedish cities”. They conclude that Sweden rather than specific social integration measures as a country is positive towards immigrants but and projects. But, there is an obvious arena that there is an ongoing debate about more where these two approaches to segregation restrictive policies and report the difficulties for meet, and that is in the local community and its new immigrants in, for example, finding housing spaces for social interaction. This is important and employment. A few years later, this statement to keep in mind, that the integrated city is both must be seen in the light of how both global a result of strategies and initiatives on a micro political developments and the public debate on scale, in the neighbourhood and between indi- immigration in Europe and Sweden have devel- viduals, and initiatives and development oped since 2010 and of the move from a debate on a macro scale. It is also important to on restrictive policies into a restrictive practice. remember that strategies that has been considered successful in a particular city or 6 Cities and districts are not With reference to Denmark, the same report highlights the increasing segmentation in the exact copies of each other, housing market over the past 30 years, where and they are governed in income levels and tenure forms correlate (Andersson et al 2010). In Norway, Andersson different ways. This has et al (2010) conclude that there is an “ethnic implications on what kind divide” in economic and social integration patterns. Finally, Finland is a slightly different of integration policy that case, because it is only in recent years that is needed or considered immigration has increased. However, this in- crease has coincided with the economic reces- successful sion, resulting in “growing social differentia- tion, the aging of the population and increasing ethnic diversity” (Andersson et al 2010). Segregation in Nordic cities challenges ideals of egalitarianism and justice often associated with this region, and presents Nordic urban planners with the complex task to navigate the different needs and desires of an increasingly diverse and dynamic population. 7 The many indicators Because segregation is an inevitably complex, residential divisions. One example is Wessel, fluid phenomenon, it can be difficult to determine who provides a critical analysis of the lopsided what scales and what variables are important labour market in Oslo, concluding that “men for addressing the topic. For example, mapping rather than women, and Western immigrants share of population with foreign background rather than non-Western immigrants, converge at the regional level may reveal very different towards employment in high-profit businesses” findings from mapping it at the district or neigh- (Wessel 2013), trends that align with growing bourhood level. Zooming out too far can obscure income inequality and segregation in the city. the most intense patterns of wealth and depri- Furthermore, the segregation of schools is a vation, while a narrow focus on one neighbour- growing problem, and a general movement towards hood can miss wider urban or regional patterns. increased school choice has had the side effect Moreover, defining what constitutes a minority of enhancing this (Rangvid 2007; Trumberg 2011). group or relative poverty can be a contentious process. The maps in this publication illustrate Indeed, in Copenhagen, Rangvid (2007) estimates the segregated Nordic cities using income and that “[ethnic] school segregation … for some share of population with foreign background student groups [reaches] levels comparable to as indicators, on a district level. Both these the extreme segregation typical for US cities”. indicators are common in the urban segregation In Sweden’s case, Bunar (2010) and Szulkin and policy and research context. Jonsson (2007) note that ethnic segregation in urban schools has been increasing, and they Exploring segregation in Copenhagen, Andersen suggest a need for public policy to increase (2010) measures the phenomenon through an ethnic and social mix in classrooms. In contrast, analysis of the distribution of dwellings and Poikolainen (2012) finds that school choice and neighbourhood types across income groups. school segregation are less pressing concerns in This type of housing/income analysis is the Finland, where there remains a high level of trust most common. in local
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