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Immigrant residential segregation is the physical or geographic separation of two or more socially constructed groups into residential spaces, usually neighborhoods, and when at least one of the groups is constituted by international migrants in comparison to another group, usually the native nonimmigrant majority. This is a form of segregation that sorts immigrant groups into different social and urban spaces across cities, regions, or metropolitan areas. The residential patterns of immigrant groups in receiving contexts has been a field of continuous interest and research for social scientists in contemporary North American and Western European societies. Since the 1960s, the growing urbanization and ethnoracial diversity of foreign‐born migrants and their offspring have raised empirical questions and theoretical frameworks about their spatial distribution and socioeconomic or demographic characteristics …