Artifact #3: The Limits of Spatial Assimilation for Immigrants' Full Integration: Emerging Evidence from African Immigrants in Boston and Dublin

The author and researcher in this article is Zoua M. Vang of McGill University. Here she is answering the effects of immigrants, speficially Africans, on moving into areas that are deemed mostly Irish or American. Her findings are quite shocking as the movement of immigrants in Boston would have to be about 35% higher than Dublin just to reach some level of equal reprsentation in specific neighborhoods. In other words, to fill these areas African immigrants would have to move into these areas without facing backlash from Americans. She used an segreation index and even found that around New York is where we see some of the most segerated areas in the US. However, more interesting is the idea that in Ireland and the US African immigrants are coming into these countries with higher levels of education than many native born individual. On top of this African immigrants are paid about $23,000 less than native born Americans even with higher levels of education. Her study is one that provides an good basis to see how neighborhood segeration is truly detrimental to African immigrants.