Richard Wright, Gemma Catney, Mark Ellis, Momoko Nishikido
{"title":"Neighbourhood Ethnic Diversification in Urban and Rural England and Wales","authors":"Richard Wright, Gemma Catney, Mark Ellis, Momoko Nishikido","doi":"10.1002/psp.70356","DOIUrl":"10.1002/psp.70356","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>The minority ethnic share of the population of England and Wales rose from 8.7% in 2001 to over 18% in 2021. Using 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census data for England and Wales with consistent neighbourhood boundaries, this paper investigates how these aggregate changes translated into alterations in neighbourhood ethnic composition across the urban–rural continuum. We classify neighbourhoods into three diversity types (low, moderate, high) via an entropy‑based metric and track transitions over two decades. Ethnic and racial diversity grew in all neighbourhood types and geographic settings. Between 2001 and 2021, neighbourhoods with all-White populations all but disappeared, neighbourhoods classified as low diversity with a large White majority declined in number, and counts of moderately diverse neighbourhoods increased. Additionally, the proportion of highly diverse (multiethnic) neighbourhoods tripled during this period. These changes follow a broadly hierarchical pattern, focused first, and most intensively, in London and subsequently occurring in secondary Metropolitan counties and relatively smaller urban settings. Finally, we detect some decade-specific differences, notably a deceleration in neighbourhood transitions toward greater ethnic diversity between 2011 and 2021. A counterfactual analysis of the consolidation of ethnic diversity into moderately diverse neighbourhoods rather than further condensation into high diversity spaces suggests the rising importance of locational preferences and constraints relative to demographic forces in shaping these new neighbourhood geographies.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":48067,"journal":{"name":"Population Space and Place","volume":"32 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2026-08-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148768440","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Deceptive Citizenship as an Instrument of New War: Authoritarian Practices in a Post-Colonial Context","authors":"Irina Kuznetsova","doi":"10.1002/psp.70348","DOIUrl":"10.1002/psp.70348","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The article demonstrates how, under authoritarian practices and post-colonialism, a state employs deceptive citizenship as an instrument of a ‘new war.’ The deceptive citizenship operates within informational autocracy for a selected category of migrantised people, which make them unaware about the legal, political and mobility consequences of this status. By obscuring the legal, political, and mobility consequences of this status, it enables authorities to symbolically project power beyond territorial boundaries and consolidate their geopolitical post-colonial standing among citizens. Using Russia's citizenship policies towards displaced Ukrainians between 2014 and 2022 as a case study, this article traces the complex genealogy of these policies and shows how, prior to the full-scale invasion, they served geopolitical ambitions and postcolonial hegemony. At the same time, it demonstrates that displaced Ukrainians' citizenship practices were driven primarily by the need to cope with uncertainty and insecurity.</p>","PeriodicalId":48067,"journal":{"name":"Population Space and Place","volume":"32 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2026-08-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/psp.70348","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148729272","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Household Assets and Internal Mobility in Laos: Agricultural Land, Home Ownership, and Multi-Stream Population Redistribution","authors":"Phengsy Dalavong, Chang Gyu Choi","doi":"10.1002/psp.70352","DOIUrl":"10.1002/psp.70352","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Internal migration in agrarian economies is usually framed as a rural-to-urban transition, but population redistribution follows multiple pathways. Household assets such as land and housing shape these moves, and how they do so is contested: some research finds that assets anchor households in place, while other work finds that they enable movement. This debate has centred on rural-to-urban flows in settings of uneven ownership, leaving open how assets relate to the full range of mobility, including non-migration and rural-bound moves, where ownership is near-universal. This study examines that question in Lao PDR, a setting of gradual urbanisation and continued rural dominance. Drawing on the nationally representative Lao Social Indicator Survey, it models three outcomes: migration versus non-migration, rural versus urban residence among non-migrants, and the direction of movement among migrants. Two findings emerge. First, mobility in Laos is multidirectional rather than a single rural-to-urban flow: measured against rural–urban migration, rural–rural movement is about three times as common, and urban–urban and urban–rural flows each about twice as common. Second, ownership and renting point in opposite directions: agricultural land and home ownership accompany staying and rural-bound movement, while renting and internet access accompany urban-oriented mobility. Notably, urban residence does not preclude landholding: most urban residents still own farmland. These findings extend the population geography of assets and mobility beyond the rural-to-urban paradigm, revealing a household-level dual attachment in which the same assets anchor and enable mobility at once.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":48067,"journal":{"name":"Population Space and Place","volume":"32 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2026-08-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148729276","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Biographical Approach to Understand Long-Term Occupational Trajectories of Immigrants in the UK Labour Market","authors":"Michael Mahony, Francisco Rowe","doi":"10.1002/psp.70308","DOIUrl":"10.1002/psp.70308","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This study adopts a biographical approach to examine migrants' integration experiences within the UK labour market. It employs monthly retrospective data from the UK Household Longitudinal Study (UKHLS) and the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) to identify distinct occupational trajectories experienced by migrants who arrived in the UK between 1927 and 2016. We identified five representative trajectories capturing labour market stability (i.e. stable paid employment, stable self-employment, and stable family care), precarity (transitional unemployment) and enhancement (investing in education). Overall, these trajectories evidence that a high proportion of UK migrants experienced successful integration, characterised by fast and sustainable labour market entry, while only a small percentage (2.36%) experienced transitional unemployment. EU nationals were substantially more likely than non-EU migrants to experience this success, despite being less educated on average and entering without prior job offers. Our analysis also revealed that gender, education, age at arrival, and ethnicity all significantly influence the integration process. They interact in unique ways to influence the probability of immigrants embarking on one of the identified trajectories. High national unemployment during migrants' year of arrival was identified as a consistent factor of labour market exclusion, indicating that initial inactivity significantly increased migrants' vulnerability to future economic scarring.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":48067,"journal":{"name":"Population Space and Place","volume":"32 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2026-08-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148717355","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Imagined Majorities: Perceived Group Size and Population Replacement Beliefs in Turkey","authors":"Evren Balta, Ezgi Elçi, Deniz Sert","doi":"10.1002/psp.70354","DOIUrl":"10.1002/psp.70354","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Population-replacement beliefs are often treated as an intensified form of demographic misperception. This article instead argues that they comprise three distinct layers: perceptions of the current migrant population size, expectations of future growth and the attribution of deliberate political agency. Using an original nationally representative survey in Turkey (<i>N</i> = 1136), we test whether these layers form a single attitude or operate independently. Respondents overestimate the migrant population and expect further growth, yet current misperception does not independently predict belief in deliberate replacement. Projected growth is more strongly associated with replacement belief, while partisanship structures the attribution of hostile intent. Overestimation is concentrated among far-right voters, whereas replacement belief extends more broadly across opposition constituencies. Socio-demographic effects are weaker and less consistent. The findings show that replacement belief is not simply a mistaken assessment of present demography. It is a future-oriented political interpretation that links anticipated group change to intentional agency. By demonstrating this layered structure in a majority-Muslim refugee host, the article also shows that replacement belief is not confined to Western white-majority settings.</p>","PeriodicalId":48067,"journal":{"name":"Population Space and Place","volume":"32 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2026-08-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/psp.70354","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148717862","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Homes for Ukraine: Understanding the Geography of Ukrainian Refugees and Hosts in Great Britain","authors":"Hannah Slocombe, Kathy Burrell","doi":"10.1002/psp.70351","DOIUrl":"10.1002/psp.70351","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>The escalation of conflict in Ukraine in March 2022 triggered the mass displacement of Ukrainian people. In response, the UK government launched the Homes for Ukraine scheme, a private hosting initiative that urged members of the public to temporarily host refugees in their homes. As of December 2024, around 194,800 Ukrainian refugees had been issued visas through the scheme. Despite the significance of the scheme, little is known about the geography of refugees and hosts, factors that have influenced this geography, and how this geographical distribution shaped the temporary integration of Ukrainian refugees. This paper employs a mixed-methods design, integrating qualitative interviews with Ukrainian refugees and those hosting them, with spatial mapping and regression modelling, to examine the geography of the Homes for Ukraine scheme. Our findings demonstrate that while hosting was geographically widespread, there were distinct regional trends, with more Ukrainian refugees being hosted in southern England. Various factors were associated with this distinct geography, including average income levels, as well as the availability of spare rooms. Finally, we show that many areas home to higher rates of Ukrainian refugees pose challenges for their temporary integration due to higher housing costs, as well as limited availability of social housing. These findings contribute to wider understandings of migration and refuge by demonstrating the significance of place-based attributes in not only determining where displaced people are able to move but also in shaping their temporary integration into hosting areas.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":48067,"journal":{"name":"Population Space and Place","volume":"32 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2026-08-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148717352","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"From Integration Deficit to Imbalanced Integration: Digital–Social Mechanisms Across Places and Migrants' Mental Health","authors":"Hanbei Cheng","doi":"10.1002/psp.70349","DOIUrl":"10.1002/psp.70349","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Migrants' mental health has become an increasing public health concern amid persistent social and cultural displacement. Although social integration is widely recognised as a key determinant of mental health, existing research has largely focused on integration deficits, while overlooking imbalanced forms of integration. We address this gap by examining superficial integration, in which frequent face-to-face interactions outpace migrants' sense of belonging. Using original survey data from Wuhan and multigroup structural equation modelling (MG-SEM), we investigated how social integration influences migrants' mental health through digital-social processes across generations. We found that the mental health consequences of social integration depend not on social interaction or belonging alone, but on their social asymmetries. Frequent interactions become psychologically detrimental when they are not accompanied by a corresponding sense of belonging, revealing the adverse effects of superficial integration. We further identified two complementary mechanisms underlying this relationship. First, social media engagement intensifies the health consequences of social integration by strengthening both the benefits of belonging and the psychological costs of interaction. Second, a stronger destination-city belonging reduces perceived relative deprivation with respect to migrants' places of origin, thereby improving mental health, particularly among younger migrants. By moving beyond the deficit-based view of migrant integration, this study highlights the importance of examining how integration unfolds unevenly across social, digital, and spatial contexts. Our findings call for policies that go beyond increasing social contact and instead promote meaningful, emotionally supportive, and locally embedded forms of integration.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":48067,"journal":{"name":"Population Space and Place","volume":"32 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2026-08-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148717354","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Late-Life Mobility in a Rapidly Ageing Middle-Income Country: Spatial Patterns and Local Demographic Change in Brazil, 1980–2010","authors":"Fernando Antonio Ignacio González, Jean Sleifer","doi":"10.1002/psp.70347","DOIUrl":"10.1002/psp.70347","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>How do older adults reshape the spatial demography of a middle-income country undergoing one of the fastest population-ageing transitions on record? Brazil offers a particularly informative case: its share of population aged 60 or above rose from 6.2% in 1980 to 10.8% in 2010 and is projected to reach 25% by 2050, and a nationally administered pension regime makes benefits fully portable across the country's 5565 municipalities. Using large-sample microdata from four Brazilian Demographic Censuses (1980–2010, 84 million records harmonised to 4298 stable comparable areas) linked to municipal economic accounts, we document a senior counter-current with the hallmarks of counter-urbanisation. Senior inter-area mobility declines with age yet remains substantial through retirement ages, and it is not local boundary-hopping: the median senior move covers roughly 100 kilometres and nearly a third crosses state lines. Older Brazilians move against the working-age tide—the largest metropolitan areas lose retirees on net, while small and medium-sized interior destinations receive them at rates reaching 5%–6% of initial population per 5-year window. Receiving areas expand demographically—in total population, working-age cohorts, employment, housing stock and services activity—but GDP per capita and agricultural value added grow more slowly, a pattern consistent with retirees transmitting purchasing power to destinations whose productive base does not scale with the inflow. These associations are robust to geographic-amenity controls, pre-trend conditioning and microregion fixed effects and geographically weighted regressions show they hold across virtually the entire national territory; we are explicit, however, that positive selection of destinations bounds them above any causal effect. We discuss what the Brazilian counter-current implies for population geography and for other middle-income countries tracing the same demographic curve.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":48067,"journal":{"name":"Population Space and Place","volume":"32 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2026-08-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148698803","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Yutian Zhuang, Felicia F. Tian, Jiang Chang, Tingting Lu, Yang Xiao, Dixiang Xie
{"title":"Green Spaces and Migrants' Social Integration in Guangzhou's Urban Villages","authors":"Yutian Zhuang, Felicia F. Tian, Jiang Chang, Tingting Lu, Yang Xiao, Dixiang Xie","doi":"10.1002/psp.70337","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.70337","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>As China's urbanization enters a quality-oriented phase, urban villages serve as critical sites for examining how neighborhood environmental resources intersect with everyday social life under institutional inequality. This study investigates how no-cost green spaces in Guangzhou's urban villages are associated with residents' perceived neighborhood-level social integration. Using survey and geospatial data, we conceptualize green space through physical characteristics, use patterns, and subjective perceptions, and investigate whether these associations differ by <i>hukou</i> status. Results show that migrants report lower perceived social integration than locals. Vegetation coverage, green space exposure duration, social activities, perceived importance, and perceived safety are positively associated with perceived social integration, whereas green vision rate, physical activities, and perceived proximity are not. The association between social activities in green spaces and perceived social integration is stronger among migrants than among locals. These findings suggest that, in resource-constrained urban villages, perceived neighborhood-level integration is associated not simply with the presence or physical quality of green space, but with socially meaningful forms of green space use. No-cost green spaces may therefore serve as low-threshold everyday settings where neighborhood sociability is practiced under <i>hukou</i>-based inequality.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":48067,"journal":{"name":"Population Space and Place","volume":"32 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2026-07-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148616733","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"No Destination? Unveiling the Traces of the Future Among Young Asylum Seekers in “Waithood”","authors":"Paolo Boccagni","doi":"10.1002/psp.70341","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.70341","url":null,"abstract":"<p>What is the future like for young men who feel spatially and temporally stuck, like dozens of thousands who fled West Africa and reached Europe over the last decade, only to end up in the “waithood” of asylum reception? Is there any meaningful destination ahead of them? On the surface, their social and legal precarity is hard to reconcile with future aspirations, let alone anticipations. However, the alluring vision of a future “good life”, which informed their migration pathways, may survive the clash between the linear, accelerated time of migration and the circular, static time of asylum. As my ethnography in a reception centre of Northern Italy shows, meaningful <i>traces of the future</i> emerge across the residents' fragmented narratives, practices, and material cultures. These are multi-sensory signals about the possibility of a certain future, and assertions about its moral worth. Unveiling them casts light on the subjective understanding of the future on multiple scales, as an aspired gendered transition to autonomy and adulthood. It also shows that anticipation matters, even when it only draws on an implicit register of emotions, atmospheres, and daily routines. It is a way of preparing oneself for an unpredictable future – and of coping and making sense of the suspended temporality of asylum.</p>","PeriodicalId":48067,"journal":{"name":"Population Space and Place","volume":"32 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2026-07-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/psp.70341","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148617206","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}