Resumen

ARJONA GARRIDO, Ángeles  y  CHECA OLMOS, Juan Carlos. Travelling together, sitting apart: A case of etnolocalization in spaces daily interaction. Pap. poblac [online]. 2008, vol.14, n.58, pp.183-207. ISSN 2448-7147.

Research on segregation has tended to focus on relations located at a macro-spatial level of analysis and unfolding in contexts where boundaries to interaction are formally established. This research, by contrast, investigated segregation as a micro-ecological process by observing patterns of seating in a bus. Atotal of 11 000 seating positions were coded over a 10 week period. The resulting data were analysed using both adapted segregation indexes issolation and dissimilarity. We also investigate the reasons for giving passengers the choice of their seats. The results suggested that ethnic segregation existed both at the level of interactional. Also the density and the gender are important variables in the prediction of the segregation.

Palabras llave : segregation; microecology; immigrants; contact; dissimilarity.