The residential settlement of Bangladeshis in Italy: the case of Rome

A great number of studies have focused the attention on the settlement patterns of migrants in cities. In the past, the idea was that after an initial phase in which the migrants preferred to live in areas inhabited by co-nationals they would move to areas less populated in this regard. More recently, patterns emerging in the literature see the migrants not leaving the residential area of the first settlement, but remaining attached to it. By applying the spatial statistics methodology, this paper provides a picture of the housing patterns of Bangladeshis regularly resident in Rome and takes into account their different household typologies.