Abstract:

The study of urban ethnic communities plays an important role in social space research.In recent years,a spate of studies have examined the transformation of urban social space under the perspective of social economic transition,However,there are few research from the perspective of ruralurban migration especially the crossethnic ghettos.This paper  takes Lhasa Hebalin community as an example to explore the characteristics and mechanism of social space.Under a microscopic lens,both questionnaires and halfstructured interviews are used in the survey of 2009.Muslim gathering in Lhasa as early as 10th century AD has a sharply increase in 2006.Opening the QinghaiTibet Railway,two different minorities,two different religions,make this area very special.However,due to low level of education of its population,and mobility,there is a certain degree of social instability.Hebalin Islamic Community is a new dimension of sociospatial segregation and ethnicity