Segregation through Space and Life: Ethnic residential segregation from a longitudinal life course, intersectional and experience-based perspective

Residential ethnic segregation, although widely observed, is not fully understood. Segregation
research has made a lot of methodological progress but has not been able to integrate new insights
arising from population studies and urban scholarship, including longitudinal approaches and linked
lives. This project aims to contribute to the understanding of ethnic segregation in three ways.
Conceptually, it will develop a novel framework for understanding the processes and meanings of
segregation that draws on theories of life course and intersectionality and integrates a focus on
spatial context. Methodologically, it will build a mixed-methods approach to implement the
framework based on quantitative and qualitative analysis. Empirically, it will provide new evidence on
the intersecting causes and contexts of segregation through (i) the examination of spatial
manifestations of de-standardised life course using unique individual, longitudinal and geocoded
census and register data and advanced statistical and spatial techniques; (ii) the elucidation of
narratives of segregation through subjective understandings of the multiplicity of (representations
of) place and the experiences of living-in-segregation for different ethnic communities and
community members through observation, interviews, mental mapping and portraits. By theorizing
and evidencing spatial manifestations of standardization of life courses, the project intends to
enhance academic scholarship in urban inequality.