Does ethnic diversity erode social trust? Continued immigration and corresponding growing
ethnic diversity have prompted this essential question for modern societies, but few clear …

IN the volumes of research on social trust, no question has received more attention than that
of the potential consequences of ethnic diversity for social trust. The cause of this attraction …

Mass media has long been discussed as an essential determinant of the threat perceptions
leading to anti-immigration attitudes. The field of empirical research on such media effects is …

This book critically engages with dominant ideas of cultural homogeneity in the Nordic
countries and contests the notion of homogeneity as a crucial determinant of social cohesion …

A large scholarship documents discrimination against immigrants and ethnic minorities in
institutional settings such as labour and housing markets in Europe. We know less, however …

Cultural heterogeneity, and grounds for a politics of solidarity that would connect the
“imagined communities”(Anderson 2006) of today's nationstates, have become core …

ABSTRACT In 2015-2016, Germany experienced a rapid and controversial increase in
refugees that varied substantially across German districts. This increase provides unique …

Ethnic diversity is typically measured by the well-known Hirschman-Herfindahl Index. This
paper discusses the merits of an alternative approach, which is in our view better suited to …

This article adds an intergenerational perspective to the study of perceived ethnic
discrimination. It proposes the conjecture that perceived discrimination tends to increase …

Combining theoretical and empirical approaches, this chapter examines the impact of the
current so-called refugee crisis on the perception of plurality in Europe. Using socio …