ABSTRACT
Residential patterns tell us about social life. There is a well-known maxim in sociology, first attributed to the sociologist and journalist of the Chicago School Robert Park, that “spatial distance reflects social distance.” Patterns of population distribution, redistribution, and res idential segregation provide windows on the social structure of Amer ican society. This chapter draws on that tradition in discussing resi dential segregation among immigrants and ethnic groups in the state of New Jersey, a suitable setting for the task (Espenshade 1994; see also Western and Kelly, chapter 2, this volume).
