Diversity and Contact
Immigration and Social Interaction in German Cities
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Karen Schönwälder
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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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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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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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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...
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‘Persons persecuted on political grounds shall enjoy the right of asylum — but not in our country’: asylum policy and debates about refugees in the Federal Republic of Germany
‘There is the so-called “right of asylum” but it is much more a right on the part of the Government to grant asylum than a right on the part of the alien to have it.’ This is how David Renton explained the pos...
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Schutz ethnischer Minderheiten
„Der Staat achtet die Identität der ethnischen, kulturellen und sprachlichen Minderheiten“: so lautete Artikel 20b der dem Bundestag im Oktober 1993 von der Gemeinsamen Verfassungskommission (im folgenden GVK)...
