The neighbourhoods in which people live reflects their social class and preferences, so studying socio-spatial mobility … between neighbourhoods gives insight in the openness of spatial class structures of societies and in the ability of people to … leave disadvantaged neighbourhoods. We study the extent to which people move between different types of neighbourhoods by …

using unique data for 1990, 1996 and 2002. We find that the number of neighbourhoods with high child poverty rates is much … larger in 2002 than in 1990, but also that most poor children in the three regions live outside poor neighbourhoods. A … disproportionally large fraction of children with backgrounds from low- and middle-income countries live in poor neighbourhoods …