ABSTRACT
Residential segregation is created by the behaviour of individual households, who move across neighbourhoods inside and across cities. This behaviour is a result of individual residential preferences and options on the housing market. Ethnic segregation is not only a result of the behaviour of ethnic minorities but also of the behaviour of the native-born population. The question is: which kind of moving behaviour has the dominant importance for the creation and maintenance of ethnic segregation and multi-ethnic neighbourhoods? Is it the behaviour of ethnic minorities or the behaviour of natives? Is it because ethnic minorities more often move into multi-ethnic neighbourhoods or because they tend to remain there when they have gotten access? Or is it because natives move away when ethnic minorities move in, or because they choose not to reside in these neighbourhoods?
This chapter examines how the migration of both groups is influenced by the ethnic composition of neighbourhoods or other factors. The possible causes of selective migration among ethnic minorities have been illuminated in the previous chapters. Here we will focus in more detail on reasons for selective migration among natives in European countries, in the literature called white flight and avoidance.
