Minority Ethnic Groups and Housing

Coordinators

Gideon Bolt (main contact)
Urban and Regional Research Centre Utrecht
Faculty of Geosciences
Utrecht University
Utrecht, The Netherlands
[email protected]

Rikke Skovgaard Nielsen
Department of the Built Environment
Aalborg University
Copenhagen, Denmark
[email protected]

The central themes
Central themes of this Working Group are:

  • Housing conditions, housing preferences and residential mobility of minority ethnic groups.
  • Concentration and segregation of minority ethnic groups.
  • Living in multicultural neighbourhoods.

Activities and output in recent years
The Working Group has organised a workshop at every bigger ENHR conference since 1993 and continues to provide an arena for discussing the above themes for researchers working on the housing situation of ethnic minorities. We usually have 10-15 presentations with papers with some researchers participating continuously over the years. Every year we also welcome new participants.

Future plans and activities
We are planning to organise a workshop in Oslo 2026 and a special issue is under way in collaboration with the WG on disadvantaged neighbourhoods.

Policy implementation
Papers in our workshop are relevant for a variety of policy fields, like social mixing, immigrant integration, planning for diversity, housing allocation, and social cohesion.

Other
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