Residential segregation of immigrant population in a mature tourist destination: The case of La Pineda (Costa Dorada)

Identifier:  imarina:5779832

Handle: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11797/imarina5779832

Authors:  Pujol-Perdices M; Gutiérrez A

Abstract:
The touristic town of La Pineda has the highest percentage of immigrant population registered in the province of Tarragona. This foreign population has majority arrived from developing countries. Using of data from the municipal population register and the real estate cadastre the paper calculate the residential segregation of the immigrant population in La Pineda, as well as analyses the key role that in this process plays the presence of housing stock characterised by the reduced surface area of the housing units. The results provide new evidences that allow a deep understanding of an understudied process with the Spanish Urban Geography. This is the concentration of the most vulnerable groups in residential spaces configured in certain mature tourist destinations, especially those that have tended to concentrate lower quality and price housing.