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ArticleScientific reports2026

Misalignment between residential segregation of non-EU migrants and urban barriers varies across Western European cities.

Lucas Spierenburg, Esteban Ralon-Santizo, Sander van Cranenburgh, Oded Cats

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Lucas SpierenburgTransport and Planning, Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences, Delft University of Technology, Stevinweg 1, Delft, 2628 CN, the Netherlands. l.j.spierenburg@tudelft.nl.
Esteban Ralon-SantizoTransport and Logistics Group, Department of Engineering Systems and Services, Faculty of Technology, Policy, and Management, Delft University of Technology, Jaffalaan 5, Delft, 2628 BX, the Netherlands.
Sander van CranenburghTransport and Logistics Group, Department of Engineering Systems and Services, Faculty of Technology, Policy, and Management, Delft University of Technology, Jaffalaan 5, Delft, 2628 BX, the Netherlands.
Oded CatsTransport and Planning, Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences, Delft University of Technology, Stevinweg 1, Delft, 2628 CN, the Netherlands.

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Abstract

Previous research has shown that residential segregation often aligns with urban fragmentation in contexts where explicit segregation policies were historically implemented. However, it remains unclear whether this alignment also emerges in contemporary urban contexts where segregation is driven by market mechanisms and residential preferences. Here we analyze 520 cities across eight Western European countries using high-resolution demographic data and a Monte Carlo approach to test whether residential segregation of non-EU migrants aligns with urban fragmentation by railways, motorways, and waterways. We find that the relationship between residential segregation and urban fragmentation is highly heterogeneous across Europe. Rather than a uniform trend, our results reveal regional divergence: while the Netherlands and Germany exhibit a significant alignment, Spain, the United Kingdom, and Italy show less alignment than expected by chance. These findings suggest that urban barriers do not generally function as social frontiers in European contexts, with country-specific urban development potentially influencing the observed regional differences.

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Residential SegregationTransients and MigrantsUrban PopulationCitiesEuropeHumans

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PMID41857330
PMCPMC13139376

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