IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/gam/jscscx/v8y2019i6p179-d238551.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Outgroup Contact, Anti-Foreigner Attitude, and Social Cohesion in the Caucasus: Evidence from a Population-Based Survey

Author

Listed:
  • Harris Hyun-soo Kim

    (Department of Sociology, College of Social Sciences, Ewha Womans University, 52 Ewhayeodae-gil Seodaemun-gu, Seoul 03760, Korea)

Abstract

A substantial literature has emerged examining the relationship between ethnic diversity due to immigration and social cohesion in the host country. Empirical evidence concerning this relationship, however, remains inconsistent, if not contradictory. Aside from rare exceptions, the bulk of evidence is also based on North American and European countries. The present study focuses on a novel empirical context: Georgia, a country located in the South Caucasus. Based on multilevel modeling of population-based data, it examines the associations between outgroup contact and attitude toward immigrants and two measures of social cohesion: generalized trust and civic engagement. Results show that net of controls at individual and regional levels, a negative orientation toward foreigners significantly predicts lower trust in generalized others. Frequency of outgroup contact, on the other hand, is positively related to civic participation. This linkage is also weaker in geographic areas with higher levels of anti-immigrant attitude. A major policy implication from this study is to encourage more intergroup contact through effective residential integration, amongst other measures.

Suggested Citation

  • Harris Hyun-soo Kim, 2019. "Outgroup Contact, Anti-Foreigner Attitude, and Social Cohesion in the Caucasus: Evidence from a Population-Based Survey," Social Sciences, MDPI, vol. 8(6), pages 1-10, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jscscx:v:8:y:2019:i:6:p:179-:d:238551
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0760/8/6/179/pdf
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0760/8/6/179/
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. Mavridis, Dimitris, 2015. "Ethnic Diversity and Social Capital in Indonesia," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 67(C), pages 376-395.
    2. Marc Helbling & Tim Reeskens & Dietlind Stolle, 2015. "Political Mobilisation, Ethnic Diversity and Social Cohesion: The Conditional Effect of Political Parties," Political Studies, Political Studies Association, vol. 63(1), pages 101-122, March.
    3. Gal Ariely, 2014. "Does Diversity Erode Social Cohesion? Conceptual and Methodological Issues," Political Studies, Political Studies Association, vol. 62(3), pages 573-595, October.
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Konstantinos Kotis & Dimitris Spiliotopoulos & Andreas Papasalouros, 2020. "Intelligent Collaborative Authoring of Place-Based, Cross-Cultural and Media-Rich Experiences," Challenges, MDPI, vol. 11(1), pages 1-12, June.

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. Karl McShane, 2017. "Getting Used to Diversity? Immigration and Trust in Sweden," Economics Bulletin, AccessEcon, vol. 37(3), pages 1895-1910.
    2. de la Croix, David & Bezin, Emeline & ,, 2018. "Strategic Fertility, Education Choices, and Conflicts in Deeply Divided Societies," CEPR Discussion Papers 13412, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
    3. Aris Ananta & Evi Nurvidya Arifin & Ari Purbowati & Paul J. Carnegie, 2023. "Does diversity matter for development? New evidence of ethnic diversity’s mediation between internal migration and economic growth across Indonesia’s regions," Journal of Population Research, Springer, vol. 40(3), pages 1-21, September.
    4. Marek Walesiak & Grażyna Dehnel, 2023. "A Measurement of Social Cohesion in Poland’s NUTS2 Regions in the Period 2010–2019 by Applying Dynamic Relative Taxonomy to Interval-Valued Data," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 15(4), pages 1-21, February.
    5. Gisselquist, Rachel M. & Leiderer, Stefan & Niño-Zarazúa, Miguel, 2016. "Ethnic Heterogeneity and Public Goods Provision in Zambia: Evidence of a Subnational “Diversity Dividend”," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 78(C), pages 308-323.
    6. Facchini, Giovanni & Margalit, Yotam & Nakata, Hiroyuki, 2022. "Countering public opposition to immigration: The impact of information campaigns," European Economic Review, Elsevier, vol. 141(C).
    7. Rodríguez-Pose, Andrés & Von Berlepsch, Viola, 2017. "Does population diversity matter for economic development in the very long-term? Historic migration, diversity and county wealt," CEPR Discussion Papers 12347, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
    8. Andrés Rodríguez-Pose & Viola Berlepsch, 2019. "Does Population Diversity Matter for Economic Development in the Very Long Term? Historic Migration, Diversity and County Wealth in the US," European Journal of Population, Springer;European Association for Population Studies, vol. 35(5), pages 873-911, December.
    9. Samuel Bazzi & Matthew Gudgeon, 2021. "The Political Boundaries of Ethnic Divisions," American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, American Economic Association, vol. 13(1), pages 235-266, January.
    10. David Schiefer & Jolanda Noll, 2017. "The Essentials of Social Cohesion: A Literature Review," Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, Springer, vol. 132(2), pages 579-603, June.
    11. Marek Walesiak & Grażyna Dehnel, 2020. "The Measurement of Social Cohesion at Province Level in Poland Using Metric and Interval-Valued Data," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 12(18), pages 1-19, September.
    12. Loewe, Markus & Zintl, Tina & Fritzenkötter, Jörn & Gantner, Verena & Kaltenbach, Regina & Pohl, Lena, 2020. "Community effects of cash-for-work programmes in Jordan: Supporting social cohesion, more equitable gender roles and local economic development in contexts of flight and migration," IDOS Studies, German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS), volume 103, number 103.
    13. Bove, Vincenzo & Elia, Leandro, 2017. "Migration, Diversity, and Economic Growth," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 89(C), pages 227-239.
    14. Edi Santosa & Anas Dinurrohman Susila & Winarso Drajad Widodo & Nizar Nasrullah & Ismi Puji Ruwaida & Rismita Sari, 2021. "Exploring Fruit Tree Species as Multifunctional Greenery: A Case of Its Distribution in Indonesian Cities," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 13(14), pages 1-23, July.
    15. Alexandra Tebkieta Tapsoba & Jean-Louis Combes & Pascale Combes Motel, 2023. "Does youth resentment matter in understanding the surge of extremist violence in Burkina Faso?," Working Papers hal-02895898, HAL.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:gam:jscscx:v:8:y:2019:i:6:p:179-:d:238551. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: MDPI Indexing Manager (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://www.mdpi.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.