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Approaches to Social-Residential Relations: ‘Bonding’, ‘Friends’, and Methods to Examine Interresidential Relations

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Research stressed that the undocumented population share underlying processes that represent common experiences more than retreat and ethnic division. This chapter compares between Schelling's model, which differentiates between ‘friends’ and ‘others’ and distinguishes between ‘bonding’ and ‘bridging’ and describes the research's methodology. Unlike the neutral ‘friends’/‘others’ dichotomy of Schelling's model that can apply in many contexts, the distinction between ‘bonding’ and ‘bridging’ is understood on the basis of the ethnicity of the people involved, usually carries a positive or negative connotation, and maybe located along a continuum of social relationships. Similarly, a relatively weak tendency to congregate is, in the long term, sufficient to create segregation within the urban space. However, while bridging contacts tend to be associated with integration and social mobility; a continuous process of bonding may prove a threat to social cohesion.

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Flint Ashery, S. (2023). Approaches to Social-Residential Relations: ‘Bonding’, ‘Friends’, and Methods to Examine Interresidential Relations. In: The Planning Role in Stretching the City. SpringerBriefs in Geography. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-35483-0_4

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