Housing changes of immigrants and their descendants using long-term census panel data from England and Wales

BACKGROUNDPrevious research shows that ethnic minorities in Britain are disproportionately affected by housing insecurity.However, studies rarely distinguish between migrant generations, making it difficult to assess intergenerational life course disadvantage. OBJECTIVEThe objective of this study is to examine the long-term residential mobility and housing trends among migrant generations across different country-of-origin backgrounds.By so doing, we aim to gain further understanding of housing outcomes and evaluate the residential assimilation and stratification theories. METHODSWe use the Office for National Statistics Longitudinal Study for England and Wales, a large census-based dataset.We use pooled binary and multinomial logistic regression methods to analyse residential and housing changes by origin group and migrant generation from 1971 to 2011. RESULTSFirst, we find that for most groups, the 1.5 and second generations have a higher likelihood of moving than the first generation.Second, the likelihood of moving to homeownership increases across migrant generations; the descendants of Indian and Pakistani immigrants are even more likely to move to homeownership than the native population.Third, we find that residential mobility decreases over time for nearly all groups.