Richard A. Wright
Professor of GeographyOrvil Dryfoos Professor of Public Affairs
Richard studies labor markets and housing markets in the US. He has three current projects. One involves skilled migration, both within and to the US.Another looks at housing markets—from the perspective of race and racism. A third considers the regulation of migration. Recent research has also examined the effects of the Great Recession and anti-immigrant legislation on migration.
Great Recession/Anti-immigrant Legislation Research
2016 “State-scale Immigration Enforcement and Latino Interstate Migration in the United States,” Annals of the Association of American Geographers. 106, 4, 891-908. DOI: 10.1080/24694452.2015.1135725, with Mark Ellis and Matt Townley.
2015 “The Great Recession and the Migration Redistribution of Blacks and Whites in the US South,” Growth and Change, 46, 4, 611-630. DOI: 10.1111/grow.12107, with Natasha Rivers and Mark Ellis.
2014 “The migration response to the Legal Arizona Workers Act,” Political Geography, 42, 46-56. DOI: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2014.06.001, with Mark Ellis, Kristy Copeland, and Matt Townley.
2014 “The Allure of New Immigrant Destinations and the Great Recession in the United States,” International Migration Review, 48, 1, 3-33. DOI: 10.1111/imre.12058, with Mark Ellis and Matt Townley.
Skilled Migration Research
2017 “The matching of STEM degree holders with STEM jobs in large US labor markets” Economic Geography, 93, 2, 185-201, DOI: 10.1080/00130095.2016.1220803, with Mark Ellis and Matt Townley.
Segregation and Diversity in US Housing Markets
2018 “Predicting neighborhood racial change in US metropolitan areas,” Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science, https://doi.org/10.1177/2399808317744558, with Mark Ellis, Lee Fiorio, and Steven Holloway.
2017 “Remaking White Residential Segregation: Neighborhood Succession and Metropolitan Diversity in the United States,” Urban Geography. DOI: 10.1080/02723638.2017.1360039, with Mark Ellis, Steven Holloway, and Lee Fiorio.
2014 “Patterns of Racial Segregation and Diversity in the United States: 1990-2010,” The Professional Geographer, 66, 2, 173-182. DOI: 10.1080/00330124.2012.735924, with Mark Ellis, Steven Holloway, and Sandy Wong.
2014 Wright, Richard, Mark Ellis, and Steven Holloway. “Neighbourhood racial diversity and White residential segregation in the United States,” Christopher D. Lloyd, Ian G. Shuttleworth, David Wong, (eds.) Social-Spatial Segregation: Concepts, Processes and Outcomes. Polity Press. Pp. 111-134.
2013 “Gender and the neighborhood location of mixed-race couples in the United States,” Demography, 50, 2, 393-420. DOI 10.1007/s13524-012-0158-0, with Steven Holloway and Mark Ellis.
2012 “Mapping the evolution of racially mixed and segregated neighborhoods in Chicago,” Journal of Maps, with Jonathan Chipman, Mark Ellis, and Steven Holloway. http://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/STdeVd7h4N5N5NKp4zzu/full.
2012 “Agents of Change: Mixed-race Households and the Dynamics of Neighborhood Segregation,” Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 102, 3, 549-570, with Mark Ellis, Steven Holloway, and Christopher Fowler.
2012 “The Racially Fragmented City? Neighborhood Racial Segregation and Diversity Jointly Considered,” The Professional Geographer, 64, 1, 63-82, with Steven Holloway and Mark Ellis.
Migration Regulation
2018 “A Prospective on Zelinsky’s ‘Hypothesis of the Mobility Transition’,” Geographical Review, doi: 10.1111/gere.12310, with Thomas Cooke and Mark Ellis.
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Selected Publications
Richard Wright, Mark Ellis & Matthew Townley (2016): The Matching of STEM Degree Holders with STEM Occupations in Large Metropolitan Labor Markets in the United States, Economic Geography, DOI: 10.1080/00130095.2016.1220803
Mark Ellis, Richard Wright, & Matthew Townley (2016) “State-scale Immigration Enforcement and Latino Interstate Migration in the United States,” Annals of the Association of American Geographers. DOI: 10.1080/24694452.2015.1135725.
Natasha Rivers, Richard Wright and Mark Ellis (2015) “The Great Recession and the Migration Redistribution of Blacks and Whites in the US South,” Growth and Change, DOI: 10.1111/grow.12107.
Mark Ellis, Richard Wright, Kristy Copeland, and Matt Townley (2014) “The migration response to the Legal Arizona Workers Act” Political Geography, 42, 46-56. DOI: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2014.06.001.
Mark Ellis, Richard Wright, and Matt Townley (2014) “The Allure of New Immigrant Destinations and the Great Recession in the United States,” International Migration Review, 48, 1, 3-33. DOI: 10.1111/imre.12058.
Eva Janská, Zdenek Čermák and Richard Wright (2014) “New Immigrant Destinations in a New Immigrant Country: Settlement Patterns of Non-natives in the Czech Republic” Population, Space, and Place. DOI: 10.1002/psp.1824.
Richard Wright, Mark Ellis, and Steven Holloway (2014) “Neighbourhood racial diversity and White residential segregation in the United States,” Christopher D. Lloyd, Ian G. Shuttleworth, David Wong, (eds.) Social-Spatial Segregation: Concepts, Processes and Outcomes. Polity Press. Pp. 111-134.
Mark Ellis, Richard Wright, and Matt Townley (2013) “ ‘New Destinations’ and immigrant poverty,” Stephen Raphael and David Card, (eds.) Immigration, Poverty, and Socioeconomic Inequality in the United States. Russell Sage Foundation, pp. 135-165.
Richard Wright, Mark Ellis, Steven Holloway (2013) “Gender and the neighborhood location of mixed-race couples,” Demography, 50, 2, 393-420. DOI 10.1007/s13524-012-0158-0.
Richard Wright, Mark Ellis, Steven Holloway, and Sandy Wong '11 (2013) “Patterns of Racial Segregation and Diversity in the United States: 1990-2010,” The Professional Geographer, 66, 2, 173-182. DOI: 10.1080/00330124.2012.735924, .
Works in Progress
Principal Investigator, with Jonathan Chipman (Dartmouth College), “An Interactive Web-Based Atlas of Segregation and Diversity.” CompX Faculty Grant, Neukom Institute, Dartmouth College.
Principal Investigator, with Mark Ellis, (U. of Washington), "From College to Work: Connecting STEM Education and STEM Employment in US Labor Markets." Scholarly Innovation and Advancement Award. Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Dartmouth College.