Richard Wright
Dartmouth College
66 Papers
551 Citations
Richard Wright is an academic researcher from Dartmouth College. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Immigration. The author has an hindex of 27, co-authored 66 publications.
Chat about Author
Papers
Work Together, Live Apart? Geographies of Racial and Ethnic Segregation at Home and at Work
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors compared levels of residential and work tract segregation for native-born and immigrant groups in a large U.S. metropolitan area, Los Angeles, and found that segregation by work tract is considerably lower than by residential tract, suggesting more intergroup interaction takes place during working hours than at home.
337
Re)producing Salvadoran Transnational Geographies
TL;DR: In this article, the Salvadoran transnational social field centered in northern New Jersey contributes to the development of transnational theory by considering how a particular legal provision (temporary protective status) permeates daily life.
286
Lives in limbo: Temporary Protected Status and immigrant identities
TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyze the interplay between the US government and Salvadoran asylum negotiators negotiating procedures that grant only temporary relief from deportation via the policy of Temporary Protected Status (TPS), and find that each policy shift results in the strategic renegotiation of asylum applicants' identities so as to achieve the best opportunity for a successful outcome.
186
The Racially Fragmented City? Neighborhood Racial Segregation and Diversity Jointly Considered
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that segregation and diversity must be jointly understood; they are necessarily related, although not inevitably as binary opposites, and offer an approach that classifies neighborhoods based jointly on their compositional diversity and their racial dominance, illustrated by an examination of the neighborhood racial structure of several large metropolitan areas.
150
Re‐Placing Whiteness in Spatial Assimilation Research
TL;DR: In this paper, the epistemological and methodological consequences of an unreflexive use of white suburbs as the expected residential destination in U.S. spatial assimilation are explored.
127