%0 Journal Article
%T Not Just by Walking Distance: Residential Segregation and Children¡¯s Network Integration in the City of Bremen
%A Maximilian Trommer
%A Michael Windzio
%J Urban Affairs Review
%@ 1552-8332
%D 2019
%R 10.1177/1078087417729467
%X How does residential segregation affect 12-year-old children¡¯s networks of home visit with their friends? According to social exchange theory, children visiting the household of their friends¡¯ family increases integration. Focus theory suggests that the effect of residential segregation on these visits is mediated by ¡°intermediary¡± network ties of friendship and spending leisure time. Accordingly, spatial segregation influences networks of home visits by a stepwise process of network creation and intensification, and not just by walking distance. Empirical evidence is based on a school survey in the German city of Bremen and combines exponential random graph (p*) models (ERGM) for networks with path analysis. Results of direct and indirect effects are in line with focus theory: 57% of the effect of spatial proximity on ties in the visits-at-home network is mediated by ties in networks of spending leisure time together, which, in turn, is mediated by the influence of spatial proximity on ties in friendship networks
%K residential segregation
%K networks
%K integration
%K immigrants
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1078087417729467