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MEASURING SEGREGATION [PDF]

open access: possible, 2004
We propose a set of axioms for the measurement of school-based segregation with any number of ethnic groups. These axioms are motivated by two criteria. The first is evenness: how much do ethnic groups’ distributions across schools differ? The second is representativeness: how different are schools’ ethnic distributions from one another?
Oscar Volij, David Frankel
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Planning Perspectives, 1996
Much of the literature on segregation is underlain by an implicit model which argues that groups start highly segregated in inner city locations and disperse over time. Parallel and related to this spatial pattern is the social process of assimilation. Groups start highly segregated and unassimilated and become dispersed and assimilated over time.
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Segregated Schools in Segregated Societies

Childhood, 2006
In segregated societies such as Northern Ireland, schools may become sites of risk rather than sites of learning. This is particularly likely to be the case in interface areas, which are demarcated by peace– lines and other symbolic boundaries. Drawing on maps and focus group discussions with teenagers from interface areas in North Belfast, the ...
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School Segregation and Residential Segregation

1980
The school desegregation cases of the 1970s brought the Supreme Court face to face with difficult problems of urban racial change. In dramatic contrast with the early southern cases, where one only needed to read the state code to find proof of unconstitutional action and where one could often repair the damage with a relatively simple and self-evident
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Segregation of a missense mutation in the amyloid precursor protein gene with familial Alzheimer's disease

Nature, 1991
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