TY - JOUR
T1 - Ethnic Diversity and Personal Contacts at Work and at School in the Netherlands
T2 - A Comparison of Natives and Ethnic Minorities
AU - Huijts, Timothy Hubertus Maria
AU - Sluiter, Roderick
AU - Scheepers, Peer
AU - Kraaykamp, Gerbert
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - We examined to what extent ethnic diversity in neighborhoods and municipalities in the Netherlands is related to personal contacts at work and at school with the ethnic in- and out-groups, among the native majority as well as ethnic minorities. Constrict theory, ethnic competition theory, and contact theory are used to derive hypotheses. A unique Dutch dataset with an oversampling of two large minority groups is analyzed with three-level multilevel regression models. The results indicate that ethnic diversity at the municipality level is negatively related to personal contacts with native colleagues and schoolmates, but positively related to personal contacts with colleagues and schoolmates from other ethnic groups. Ethnic diversity at the neighborhood level is not related to personal contacts at work and at school. This applies equally to native respondents and Turks and Moroccans, rejecting Putnam's hunkering down hypothesis and ethnic competition theory. Instead, ethnic diversity increases meeting opportunities with ethnic minorities while decreasing meeting opportunities with the native majority.
AB - We examined to what extent ethnic diversity in neighborhoods and municipalities in the Netherlands is related to personal contacts at work and at school with the ethnic in- and out-groups, among the native majority as well as ethnic minorities. Constrict theory, ethnic competition theory, and contact theory are used to derive hypotheses. A unique Dutch dataset with an oversampling of two large minority groups is analyzed with three-level multilevel regression models. The results indicate that ethnic diversity at the municipality level is negatively related to personal contacts with native colleagues and schoolmates, but positively related to personal contacts with colleagues and schoolmates from other ethnic groups. Ethnic diversity at the neighborhood level is not related to personal contacts at work and at school. This applies equally to native respondents and Turks and Moroccans, rejecting Putnam's hunkering down hypothesis and ethnic competition theory. Instead, ethnic diversity increases meeting opportunities with ethnic minorities while decreasing meeting opportunities with the native majority.
KW - Ethnic diversity
KW - Ethnic minorities
KW - Multilevel models
KW - Neighborhoods
KW - Netherlands
KW - Social capital
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84898054656&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/s12134-013-0286-4
DO - 10.1007/s12134-013-0286-4
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84898054656
SN - 1488-3473
VL - 15
SP - 277
EP - 298
JO - Journal of International Migration and Integration
JF - Journal of International Migration and Integration
IS - 2
ER -