Social Cohesion and Immigration in Europe and North America

Ruud Koopmans in Professor of Sociology at Humboldt University and Director of the Research Unit Migration, Integration, Transnationalization at the Berlin Social Science Center, Germany.Bram Lancee is Assistant Professor at the Department of Sociology at Utrecht University, the Netherlands.Merlin Schaeffer is a Research Fellow in the Research Unit Migration, Integration, Transnationalization at the Berlin Social Science Center, Germany.

• 1. Ethnic Diversity in Diverse Societies: An introduction Part I: The Causal Nature of Diversity Effects 2. Diversity and Well-Being: Local effects and causal approaches 3. Moving to Diversity: Residential mobility, changes in ethnic diversity, and concerns about immigration 4. Declining Trust Amidst Diversity? A Natural Experiment in Lewiston, Maine Part II: The Moderating Role of Interethnic Contacts, Identities, and Policies 5. Diversity, Segregation, and Trust 6. The Consequences Of Ethnic Diversity: Advancing the debate 7. Ethnic Heterogeneity, Ethnic and National Identity, and Social Cohesion in England 8. Diversity, Trust, and Intergroup Attitudes: Underlying processes and mechanisms Part III: Ethnic Diversity in Schools 9. Thinking About Ethnic Diversity: Experimental evidence on the causal role of ethnic diversity in german neighborhoods and schools 10. Ethnic Diversity, Homophily, and Network Cohesion in European Classrooms 11. Diversity and Intergroup Contact in Schools

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