Interneighborhood Migration, Race, and Environmental Hazards: Modeling Microlevel Processes of Environmental Inequality

Citation

Crowder, Kyle D. & Downey, Liam (2010). Interneighborhood Migration, Race, and Environmental Hazards: Modeling Microlevel Processes of Environmental Inequality. American Journal of Sociology, 115(4), 1110-1149. PMCID: PMC2908425

Abstract

This study combines longitudinal individual-level data with neighborhood-level industrial hazard data to examine the extent and sources of environmental inequality. Results indicate that profound racial and ethnic differences in proximity to industrial pollution persist when differences in individual education, household income, and other microlevel characteristics are controlled. Examination of underlying migration patterns further reveals that black and Latino householders move into neighborhoods with significantly higher hazard levels than do comparable whites and that racial differences in proximity to neighborhood pollution are maintained more by these disparate mobility destinations than by differential effects of pollution on the decision to move.

URL

http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/649576

Reference Type

Journal Article

Year Published

2010

Journal Title

American Journal of Sociology

Author(s)

Crowder, Kyle D.
Downey, Liam

PMCID

PMC2908425