THE SETTLEMENT-PATTERNS OF DEVELOPED WORLD MIGRANTS IN LONDON

Contemporary international migration flows into European cities are no w more diverse than used to be the case. The movement of less-skilled labour migrants has been replaced by the circulation of high-skill exe cutives and specialist personnel involved in transnational corporation s and in the financial services and other sectors affected by economic globalisation. To these are added other new service migrants and incr eased hows of students and independent young people. As a result, worl d cities are now witnessing the emergence of important categories of n on-racialised international migrant groups. This paper considers wheth er such groups form distinctive residential concentrations in Greater London and uses the limited aggregate data available from the census t o establish a general view of the geography of developed world migrant s. There are important implications for urban theory and for discussio ns of urban ethnicity.