Diversity and Contact
Immigration and Social Interaction in German Cities
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Open AccessWho supports refugees? Diversity assent and pro-refugee engagement in Germany
During the 2015 “summer of welcome”, the mass arrival of refugees to Germany triggered widely publicised acts of pro-refugee solidarity among citizens. To date, scholarship has largely focused on hostility tow...
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Open AccessVielfalt and diversité: how local actors in France and Germany evaluate immigration and socio-cultural heterogeneity
In both Germany and France, perceptions of immigration, diversity and their societal consequences have undergone important transformations in the past two decades. However, existing research has only partially...
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Why do some cities adopt more diversity policies than others? A study in France and Germany
An increasing sociocultural heterogeneity of populations and vocal demands for the recognition of diversity have become common features of, in particular, cities in Western Europe. Do cities reshape policies i...
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Vielfalt als alltägliche Normalität: Interaktionen und Einstellungen in deutschen Städten
Dieser Beitrag untersucht die Beziehungen zwischen migrationsbezogener Vielfalt in Wohnvierteln, verschiedenen Formen sozialer Interaktionen zwischen alteingesessenen Deutschen und MigrantInnen sowie Diversitä...
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Conclusions
A concluding eighth chapter summarizes major findings and points out consequences for theories about diversity and contact.
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Introduction: Research Context and Hypotheses
The first chapter outlines major research findings and controversies and places the book in this context.
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Diversity in Germany and Its Urban Neighbourhoods
This chapter first briefly outlines the history and structure of immigration to Germany. It then explains the diversity of its cities and of city neighbourhoods. This includes discussion of immigrant concentra...
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Five Stories of Neighbourhood, Social Life, and Diversity
This chapter explores the connections between neighbourhood features, intergroup interaction and attitudes to diversity further in portraits of five selected neighbourhoods. We use both survey results as well ...
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The Immigrant Perspective
While the previous chapters focused on the impact of diversity on neighbourhood populations more generally, sometimes contrasting the non-immigrant and the immigrant parts of such populations, this chapter foc...
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The Diversity and Contact Project (DivCon)
This chapter explains the design of the Diversity and Contact study and the methods used. We explain how the 50 neighbourhoods were selected and provide details about the panel survey, the area explorations an...
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Interactions Across Boundaries in More and Less Diverse Contexts
This chapter turns to core results of the project. We outline the social interactions between those without and those with migration background. Here we present results for three different interactions: contac...
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Attitudes Towards Immigration-Related Diversity
This chapter we investigate perceptions of diversity and attitudes to others with data from our survey, specifically by way of the three-wave panel data. These data allow a more convincing analysis of causal m...
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The New Immigrant Elite in German Local Politics
The article investigates some consequences of immigration on urban politics. On the basis of original data, it first discusses to what extent the councils of big German cities reflect the new immigration-relat...
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Extending Urban Democracy? The Immigrant Presence in European Electoral Politics
Many European cities have significant shares of immigrants among their inhabitants. Their unequal access to the political life of the cities, and the country overall, is a major democratic deficit. This introd...
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Germany: Reluctant Steps Towards a System of Selective Immigration
Fachkräftemangel, the shortage of skilled labour, is a much debated issue in Germany. Nevertheless, resistance to any large-scale liberalization of immigration remains strong. The chapter discusses why this is...
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Ethnizität in der Zuwanderungsgesellschaft Deutschland
Die deutsche Gesellschaft ist in den letzten Jahrzehnten zunehmend heterogener geworden – auch als Konsequenz von Migrationsbewegungen. Diese Migrationsbewegungen, in die fast ein Fünftel der Bevölkerung direk...
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Open AccessEinwanderer als Wähler, Gewählte und transnationale Akteure
Die politische Inkorporation von Einwanderern ist in Deutschland ein relativ neues, noch wenig bearbeitetes Forschungsfeld. Dieser Literaturbericht stellt ausgewählte neuere Ergebnisse der internationalen Fors...
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Konturen eines „Dritten Weges“. Großbritannien unter den Blair-Regierungen
In order to analyze the character of the New Labour project in Britain, the article looks at conceptual ideas (the roles of communities, state, individual; the concept of the welfare state), pragmatic response...
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„Fairer, faster and firmer“: Einwanderungs- und Flüchtlingspolitik in Großbritannien
Nach 18 Jahren kam 1997 wieder eine von der Labour Party gestellte Regierung ins Amt. Im Wahlprogramm hatte Labour keine großen Versprechungen hinsichtlich der Flüchtlingspolitik und seiner Haltung gegenüber d...
