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| Title: | Identity, Community and Segregation |
| Authors: | Reich, Bryony - University of Cambridge |
| Issue Date: | 2010 |
| Series/Report no.: | Net Institute Working Paper;10-10 |
| Abstract: | I develop a framework to explain why identity divides some communities
and not others. An identity group is defined as a group of individuals
with the same `culture'. A community is divided when different
identities are socially segregated; a community is integrated when there
is no social segregation between different identities. I find three
possible outcomes for a community: assimilation, where groups socially
integrate and one group conforms to the culture of another;
non-assimilative integration, where groups integrate but individuals
retain their own identity; and segregation, where groups socially
segregate and retain their own culture. I find that certain community
environments encourage segregation: (i) communities with similar sized
identity groups; (ii) larger communities; (iii) communities with greater
cultural distance between identities. Further, when segregation occurs,
the cultural divide between the two groups can increase endogenously
beyond ex-ante differences. |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2451/29870 |
| Appears in Collections: | NET Institute Working Papers Series
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