Social Differentiation in the “New†Immigration Centers (on the Immigrants Settlement Pattern Example)

The article reveals the features of the intra-urban areas social differentiation on the example of immigrants’ (and / or foreigners) settlement pattern in cities that can be called “new†immigration centers. The cities such as Madrid, Berlin, Rome, Lisbon and Moscow, for various reasons shown in the article, have begun to face an increase in immigrant flows over the past thirty years. These cities are the research objects, and its main goal is to find the features of the immigrants’ settlement and reveal how it affects social differentiation. It turned out that Madrid and Rome are united by a relatively new increase in the number of immigrants over the past 30 years. In Berlin, the situation is complicated by its long history of dividing the city into West Berlin and East Berlin, which, even after German reunification, affects the city’s social differentiation. Madrid and Rome have been the leaders in the growth of migration since the 1990s. However, the influx of immigrants to Madrid has been influenced by geopolitical events, so there has been a decline in immigration growth since 2008. Since 2016, the influx of immigrants to Madrid has been on the rise again. Lisbon is characterized by a separate settlement of labor immigrants from former colonial countries and wealthier immigrants from the European Union. In general, Lisbon, Madrid and Rome are similar in the post-industrial city features, that is the southern Europe cities’ characteristics. In Moscow, due to the statistics lack, it is difficult to consider the peculiarities of the immigrants settlement pattern. There are no ethnic ghettos in Moscow yet, because the migration history is not so long. Perhaps the main social tension is made by internal migrants, whose urbanization level and socio-ethnic and cultural characteristics are fundamentally different from those in Moscow.