title: Residential hierarchy in Los Angeles: an examination of ethnic and documentation status differences.
abstract: Longitudinal event history data from two waves of the Los Angeles Family and Neighborhood Survey are used to explore racial, ethnic, and documentation status differences in access to desirable neighborhoods. We first find that contrary to recent findings, undocumented Latinos do not replace blacks at the bottom of the locational attainment hierarchy. Whites continue to end up in neighborhoods that are less poor and whiter than minority groups, while all minorities, including undocumented Latinos, end up in neighborhoods that are of similar quality. Second, the effects of socioeconomic status for undocumented Latinos are either similar to or weaker than disadvantaged blacks. These findings suggest that living in less desirable neighborhoods is a fate disproportionately borne by non-white Los Angeles residents and that in some limited ways, the penalty attached to being undocumented Latino might actually be greater than the penalty attached to being black.
authors.affiliation: Department of Sociology, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, Amherst, MA 01003, United States. Electronic address: dcort@soc.umass.edu.
authors.forename: David A
authors.initials: DA
authors.lastname: Cort
authors.affiliation: Department of Sociology, Population Research Center, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712, United States.
authors.forename: Ken-Hou
authors.initials: KH
authors.lastname: Lin
authors.affiliation: Department of Sociology, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, Amherst, MA 01003, United States.
authors.forename: Gabriela
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Stevenson
mesh_terms: D001741:Black or African American; D054242:Emigrants and Immigrants; D006630:Hispanic or Latino; D006798:Housing; D006801:Humans; D008137:Longitudinal Studies; D015141:Los Angeles; D008913:Minority Groups; D012111:Residence Characteristics; D012923:Social Class; D000069756:Undocumented Immigrants; D014505:Urban Population; D044465:White People
keywords: Documentation status; Residential mobility; Residential segregation