In this article, we study how the local concentration of ethnic minorities relates to the likelihood of out-migration by natives in Copenhagen, the capital of Denmark. In US studies, a high or increasing proportion of racial or ethnic minorities in inner-city neighborhoods is seen as an important motivation for White middle-class families’ out-migration to racially and ethnically homogeneous suburbs. The relatively egalitarian Scandinavian setting offers a contrasting case, where inner cities are less deprived and where minority groups primarily consist of immigrants and the children of immigrants who have arrived over the past few decades. We use population-wide, longitudinal administrative data covering a 12-year period, and measures of individualized neighborhoods based on exact coordinates for place of residence, to examine whether out-migration is associated with minority concentrations in the Copenhagen area. Our results largely support the presence of a native out-migration mobility pattern, in contrast to much existing literature. We also show that responses to increasing minority concentrations vary across the life course and between natives and children of immigrants.

在本文中，我们研究了当地少数民族的集中程度与丹麦首都哥本哈根当地人向外迁移的可能性之间的关系。在美国的研究中，内城社区中种族或族裔少数族裔的比例较高或不断增加被视为白人中产阶级家庭向外迁移到种族和族裔同质郊区的重要动机。相对平等的斯堪的纳维亚环境提供了一个对比案例，其中内城的贫困程度较低，少数群体主要由移民和过去几十年抵达的移民子女组成。我们使用涵盖 12 年的人口范围的纵向行政数据，以及基于居住地精确坐标的个性化社区的测量，研究外迁是否与哥本哈根地区的少数族裔集中有关。与许多现有文献相比，我们的结果在很大程度上支持本地向外迁移模式的存在。我们还表明，在整个生命过程中以及当地人和移民子女之间，对少数族裔集中度增加的反应各不相同。