Geographical segregation

Geographical segregation

Geographical segregation exists whenever the proportions of population rates of two or more populations are not throughout a defined space. Populations can be considered any plant or animal species, human genders, followers of a certain religion, people of different nationalities, stone types, ethnic groups, etc.

In social geography segregation of ethnic groups, social classes and genders is often measured by the calculation of indices such as the index of dissimilarity . Different dimensions of segregation (or its contrary) are recognised: exposure, evenness, clustering, concentration, centralisation, etc. [Massey, D. and Denton, N. "American Apartheid"]

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