Trajectories of vulnerability: A spatial perspective

The purpose of the project is to study, from a life course trajectory perspective, how vulnerable groups are affected by spatial segregation. It can be argued that a society is never better than how individuals at its spatial outskirts are treated.

What role does spatial segregation and integration play in the risk of being linked into vulnerability trajectories or the opportunities to leave vulnerability?

What factors influence the spatial integration and separation of vulnerable groups?In welfare policy, integration has been a guiding principle, as has the ideas of equal upbringing and welfare. Recently, however, the development of income in Sweden has shown increasing gaps.

An important part of the integration has always been the spatial integration, both to create equal living conditions and to promote the social cohesion needed for socially sustainable societies.

In recent years, the idea of integration has met various challenges: new population groups, a liberalization of housing policy, and disadvantaged housing areas.

In parallel with these changes, interest in understanding how spatial segregation affects people´s vulnerability has increased.Spatial dimensions of vulnerability will be mapped using partially new methods; latent class analysis to identify life trajectories associated with vulnerability in registry data.

The spatial sorting of vulnerable individuals will then be analysed using individualized neighbourhoods.