Diversity and Contact [electronic resource] : Immigration and Social Interaction in German Cities / by Karen Schönwälder, Sören Petermann, Jörg Hüttermann, Steven Vertovec, Miles Hewstone, Dietlind Stolle, Katharina Schmid, Thomas Schmitt.

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. The 'Diversity and Contact' Project (DIVCON) -- Chapter 3. Diversity in Germany and its Urban Neighbourhoods -- Chapter 4. Interactions Across Boundaries in More and Less Diverse Contexts -- Chapter 5. Five Stories of Neighbourhood, Social Life, and Diversity -- Chapter 6. Attitudes Towards Immigration-Related Diversity -- Chapter 7. The Immigrant Perspective -- Chapter 8. Conclusions. .

This book analyzes how the socio-demographic and cultural diversity of societies affect the social interactions and attitudes of individuals and groups within them. Focusing on Germany, where in some cities more than one third of the population are first or second-generation immigrants, it examines how this phenomenon impacts on the ways in which urban residents interact, form friendships, and come to trust or resent each other. The authors, a distinguished team of sociologists, political scientists, social psychologists, anthropologists and geographers, present the results of their wide-ranging empirical research, which combines a 3-wave-panel survey, qualitative fieldwork, area explorations and analysis of official data. In doing so, they offer representative findings and deeper insights into how residents experience different neighbourhood contexts. Their conclusions are a significant contribution to our understanding of the implications of immigration and diversity, and of the conditions and consequences of intergroup interaction. This ground-breaking work will appeal to scholars across the Social Sciences. .