Segregation In The Hispanic Community

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Rather than being forced into certain communities due to discrimination and involuntary segregation, like African Americans, Hispanic immigrants are more likely to choose to in live in their ethnic community in order to continue their ethnic networks. Resident segregation for Hispanic communities occurs when there is a large migration of immigrants into the same area, which helps to connect other immigrants to the ethnic community (Kandel and Massey, 2002). Not only goes this separate a group from other groups, but it can increase group interactions among selected groups. With residential segregation comes high levels of poverty, crime rates, low collective efficacy, housing problems, and problems accessing health care, but the Hispanic immigrant