Investigating neighbourhood concentration of immigrants in Poland: explorative evidence from Kraków

This study contributes to research on new immigrant destinations in CEE by investigating the neighbourhood concentration of immigrants in Poland. The focus is on Kraków – the second largest city – for which we have built a unique register-based dataset containing geocoded individual level data. To our knowledge, it is the first high-quality dataset of this type, prepared and used for research purposes in Poland. We use it to describe immigrants’ spatial allocation at a relatively early stage of immigration using the kNN approach.

The results show that whereas foreigners compose around 4.2% of city population, 50% of the city inhabitants live in the 200 kNNs with a share of foreigners below 2.2%. The DI for the immigrants is 0.45. Yet, a relatively high concentration could be seen among foreigners from Asia and America. However, immigrants from Ukraine and other Eastern European, non-EU countries are much more evenly spread around the city.

New FUME research on neighbourhood concentration in Poland by Marcin Stonawski, Jan Brzozowski, @KPedziwiatr @marinageorgati. Read it here: https://t.co/bUJldlLjFG @krakow_pl pic.twitter.com/q6BPiQWVVU

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