Diversity and Contact

Karen Schönwälder is a Research Group Leader at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity and Professor at the Georg August University in Göttingen, Germany.Sören Petermann is Team Leader at GESIS – Leibniz-Institute for the Social Sciences, Germany.Jörg Hüttermann is a Researcher at the Institute for Interdisciplinary Research on Conflict and Violence at Bielefeld University, Germany.Steven Vertovec is Director at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, and Honorary Joint Professor of Sociology and Ethnology, University of Göttingen, Germany.Miles Hewstone is Professor of Social Psychology at the University of Oxford, UK.Dietlind Stolle is the Director of the Inter-University Centre for the Study of Democratic Citizenship at McGill University, Canada.Katharina Schmid is Research Associate at the Oxford Centre for the Study of Intergroup Conflict, UK.Thomas Schmitt is a Human Geographer at Friedrich-Alexander University in Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany.

• Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. The 'Diversity and Contact' Project (DIVCON).- Chapter 3. Diversity in Germany and its Urban Neighbourhoods.- Chapter 4. Interactions Across Boundaries in More and Less Diverse Contexts.- Chapter 5. Five Stories of Neighbourhood, Social Life, and Diversity.- Chapter 6. Attitudes Towards Immigration-Related Diversity.- Chapter 7. The Immigrant Perspective.- Chapter 8. Conclusions.