Investigating neighbourhood concentration of immigrants in Poland: explorative evidence from Kraków
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Published:2022-06-28
Issue:56
Volume:
Page:143-159
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ISSN:2083-8298
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Container-title:Bulletin of Geography. Socio-economic Series
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language:
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Short-container-title:BGSS
Author:
Stonawski Marcin,Brzozowski Jan,Pędziwiatr Konrad,Georgati Marina
Abstract
Aim. This study contributes to research on new immigrant destinations in CEE by investigating the neighbourhood concentration of immigrants in Poland. We focus on Kraków – the second largest city – for which we have built a unique register-based dataset containing geocoded individual level data. To our knowledge, it is the first high-quality dataset of this type, prepared and used for research purposes in Poland. We use it to describe immigrants’ spatial allocation at a relatively early stage of immigration using the kNN approach.
Results and conclusions. We find that whereas foreigners compose around 4.2% of city population, 50% of the city inhabitants live in the 200 kNNs with a share of foreigners below 2.2%. The DI for the immigrants is 0.45. Yet, a relatively high concentration could be seen among foreigners from Asia and America. However, immigrants from Ukraine and other Eastern European, non-EU countries are much more evenly spread around the city.
Publisher
Uniwersytet Mikolaja Kopernika/Nicolaus Copernicus University
Subject
Urban Studies,Cultural Studies,Geography, Planning and Development,Demography