Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/237086 
Year of Publication: 
2021
Series/Report no.: 
GLO Discussion Paper No. 910
Publisher: 
Global Labor Organization (GLO), Essen
Abstract: 
Academic consensus about normative prescriptions on the ethnic and cultural composition of societies has been shifting in recent decades. It has evolved from what seemed desirable but was acknowledged to be unrealistic (the noble idea of a melting pot), to what is realistic because it has already happened, but might be undesirable in the long run: the multicultural diaspora. Plural societies, an unintended consequence of multiculturalism, lurk in the background. Thus scholars of social and economic questions, as well as societies, face a threehorned dilemma. We throw some light on the dilemma by examining school friendship networks in five European countries with recent immigration. Our results highlight the force of elective affinities in overcoming differences, but they also point to the countervailing forces of elective discordance that are currently driving increasing division.
Subjects: 
Friendship
Homophily
Immigration
Networks
Social cohesion
JEL: 
D85
J15
Z13
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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