Reconciling the contact and threat hypotheses: does ethnic diversity strengthen or weaken community inter-ethnic relations?

Laurence, James

doi:10.1080/01419870.2013.788727

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“…7 This underscores that potential cultural threats are rather received from specific groups than from the overall share of immigrants. Moreover, our results underline the claim by Laurence (2014) to not consider the threat hypothesis and the contact hypothesis as mutually exclusive. Depending on the given circumstances and the subject of analysis both theories may apply equally well.…”

Section: Muslims On the Permission Of Rights Is Negligible (As The Resupporting

confidence: 76%

“…One side argues in accordance with the threat hypothesis that diversity induces enhanced interracial conflicts, while the other side follows the contact hypothesis arguing that more diversity leads to more potential interethnic contact and understanding (Laurence 2014). To date, research could support both sides of the ongoing debate: Oliver and Mendelberg (2000) find that racist speech in the USA increases with the share of blacks in the neighbourhood.…”

Section: Contextual Ethnic Diversity and The Erosion Of Tolerance Towmentioning

confidence: 62%

“…However, the results underline that these groups may pose economic as well as cultural threats to the majority population. Moreover, our approach contributes to the ongoing discussion of whether contextual diversities lead to more or less negative attitudes towards immigrants (Laurence 2014). Like other researchers before (e.g.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 97%

“…In the end, Dustmann and Preston (2001, 354) state that 'the vast empirical literature has not provided a definite answer as to which effect prevails'. Laurence (2014) further argues that researchers should not ask the question of whether the threat or the contact theory is right, but rather how and within which situations these theoretical constructs interact with each other. These two theories should not be considered as mutually exclusive.…”

Section: Contextual Ethnic Diversity and The Erosion Of Tolerance Towmentioning

confidence: 97%

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More diversity, less tolerance? The effect of type of cultural diversity on the erosion of tolerance in Swiss municipalities

Rapp¹

2015

Ethnic and Racial Studies

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Immigration and the ways in which host societies receive newcomers pose challenges for modern civil societies. This article contributes to the ongoing discussion about how ethnic diversity influences tolerance towards immigrants. Compared to previous studies, we analyse tolerance as a sequential concept in order to uncover the effects of contextual diversity on attitudes towards immigrants and the granting of certain rights to this group. Moreover, we distinguish different shares of ethnic groups based on their ethnic and cultural origins both on the independent and dependent variable. The analysis relies on a subnational survey of sixty municipalities in Switzerland, revealing that only certain ethnic groups are seen as an economic and cultural threat.

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confidence: 76%

Section: Contextual Ethnic Diversity and The Erosion Of Tolerance Towmentioning

confidence: 62%

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 97%

Section: Contextual Ethnic Diversity and The Erosion Of Tolerance Towmentioning

confidence: 97%

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More diversity, less tolerance? The effect of type of cultural diversity on the erosion of tolerance in Swiss municipalities

Rapp¹

2015

Ethnic and Racial Studies

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“…Compared with other areas of the United Kingdom, some urban areas in London, the North West of England and the English Midlands have much higher ethnic minority populations. Ethnic minority groups are often clustered in areas of high deprivation, and this may be particularly relevant to studies of social networks and neighbourhood effects (see, for example, Bécares et al, 2009Bécares et al, , 2011Laurence, 2014). Equally, Finney and Simpson (2009) argue that the extent and consequences of regional segregation are sometimes exaggerated.…”

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Ethnicity and ethnic group measures in social survey research

Connelly

Gayle

Lambert

2016

Methodological Innovations

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This article is a review of issues associated with measuring ethnicity and using ethnicity measures in social science research. The review is oriented towards researchers who undertake secondary analyses of large-scale multipurpose social science datasets. The article begins with an outline of two main approaches used in social surveys to measure ethnicity, the ‘mutually exclusive category’ approach and the ‘multiple characteristics’ approach. We also describe approaches to the use of ethnicity measures in cross-national comparative research. We emphasise the value of sensitivity analyses. We also encourage researchers to carefully consider the possible relationships between ethnicity and other important variables in order to avoid spurious interpretations of the effects of ethnicity.

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The more diverse the better: Identifying with a diverse neighbourhood mother community predicts greater intergroup contact

Riikonen,

Finell,

Seppälä

et al. 2023

Community & Applied Soc Psy

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Although it has been shown that identification with a neighbourhood community can support intergroup relations within the community by providing resources to cope with intergroup contact, previous research has not investigated how the perceived diversity of the neighbourhood identity influences this process. This study extends research on neighbourhood identification by focusing on a specific group (mothers of small children), examining how and when identification with other mothers living in the same neighbourhood is related to intergroup contact with local outgroup mothers. We examined this in a survey study, for which we collected data from both Finnish majority and immigrant mothers at public maternal and child healthcare centres (N = 733). Our study showed that identification with the neighbourhood mother community was positively associated with intergroup contact, partly via perceived social support from other neighbourhood mothers for both Finnish majority and immigrant mothers. Our study additionally revealed that the perceived proportion of outgroup mothers in the local mother community moderated the relationship between identification and intergroup contact for both groups. Our findings highlight the significance of considering perceived diversity for determining when identification will support intergroup contact. Please refer to the Supplementary Material section to find this article's Community and Social Impact Statement.

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Reconciling the contact and threat hypotheses: does ethnic diversity strengthen or weaken community inter-ethnic relations?

Cited by 77 publications

References 26 publications

More diversity, less tolerance? The effect of type of cultural diversity on the erosion of tolerance in Swiss municipalities

More diversity, less tolerance? The effect of type of cultural diversity on the erosion of tolerance in Swiss municipalities

Ethnicity and ethnic group measures in social survey research

The more diverse the better: Identifying with a diverse neighbourhood mother community predicts greater intergroup contact

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