Identity, Community and Segregation
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Identity, Community and Segregation
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, wh...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: SSRN Electronic Journal
سال: 2010
ISSN: 1556-5068
DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.1694386