To the extent that preferential racial policies are promoted and pursued in the United States, the liberal consensus among supporters dictates that they are to be pursued by the government, within the ambit of the law, whether instituted legislatively, administratively, or judicially, and in...

This chapter deals with the economic and ethnic diversity caused by international labor migration, and their economic integration possibilities. It brings together three strands of literature dealing with the neoclassical economic assimilation, ethnic identities and attitudes towards immigrants...

Upon arrival in the host country, immigrants undergo a fundamental identity crisis. Their ethnic identity being questioned, they can be classified into four states - assimilation, integration, separation and marginalization. This is suggested by the ethnosizer, a newly established measure to...

Ethnic violence is a common phenomenon almost in every nation and dates back to the history of human civilization. Sometimes, it is due to nationalistic patriotism. Also, relative developmental differences, economic isolation, continuous discrimination by the ruling class, remoteness and...

This paper studies the respective influence of intergenerational transmission and the environment in shaping individual trust. Focusing on second generation immigrants in Australia and the United States, we exploit the variation in the home and in the host country to separate the effect of the...

Despite great falls in global poverty, civil and ethnic conflict remains tragically common. In this chapter, I examine the patterns of persistence and change in conflict around the world through the lens of historical political economy. I compare two important approaches for measuring the impact...

We propose a novel perspective on migration and cultural change by asking both theoretically and empirically and from a global viewpoint whether migration is a source of cultural convergence or divergence between home and host countries. Our theoretical model derives distinctive testable...

This paper attempts to construct a theoretical model identifying the functional locations of market segmentation variables including race and ethnicity using a psychoanalytic approach, and subsequently propose a Dual-Status model depicting how one can be considered as sport customers versus...

This paper reviews several approaches for measuring and evaluating ethnic diversity. Based on Simpson's diversity index, a metric commonly used in biodiversity research, an "ethnic diversity index" (EDI) is developed that describes the degree of variety of ethnic groups living together on a...