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No 25	Patterns of Residential Segregation and the Gypsy Minority in Budapest
Institution	Department of Sociology; University of Economics: H-1093 Budapest, Hungary
Publication (Journal)	International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 17 no.1 (March 1993): 30-41
Published in	U.K., 1993
Language	English
Abstract	Increasing migration of the Hungarian gypsy minority to Budapest is reinforcing residential segregation trends, reflecting structured inequalities among this marginalized ethnic group. Based on a 1987 survey of gypsy schoolchildren (N = 3,900), it is suggested that socioeconomic and ethnic urban segregation patterns differ. The gypsies traditionally have comprised 2% of Budapest's population, but economic crisis, unemployment, and declining standards of living in underdeveloped eastern Hungary have caused increased migration. Different housing configurations for the gypsy population are discussed, and residential areas for different classes of gypsies are plotted on a map of the city. While lower-status social classes tend to congregate in small microsegregates throughout the city, high-status groups define their own urban areas by excluding other groups. Where ethnic minority is marked by strong visible racial characteristics & is subjected to racial prejudices, large-scale, homogeneous spatial units composed of this minority emerge.
Discipline(s)	sociology , political sociology
Source(s)	survey

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