Combined with the expansion of economic literature on the role of ethnicity, new indices were developed to do justice to its complexity. The current indices are generally based on pre-defined groups, disregarding the (dis)similarities between them. This is sufficient to calculate the most common...

Explores the links between Asian governments' development strategies and the nature and dynamics of inter-group violence. The overview chapters comprehensively assess the development doctrines, patterns of development, and levels and nature of violence in all Asian subregions, while case-study...

"Throughout the world, development has been affected by armed violence - from civil wars and separatist struggles to explosions of religious and communal violence and terrorism. Ethnolinguistic and religious diversity, rivalries among regional groups and clans, and competing economic interests...

Using microdata from the 2000 U.S. Census and from recent years of the Current Population Survey (CPS), we investigate whether selective intermarriage and endogenous ethnic identification interact to hide some of the intergenerational progress achieved by the Mexican-origin population in the...

The author is trying to demystify the integration conceptualization of pluralism framework studying the relationship between Muslim and Welfare state in Sweden. The most clear evidence is that Muslim immigration are living between assimilation on several social dimension albeit those dimension...

This article explores an aspect of identity that can be particularly challenging for conflict resolution—negative identity. By negative identity, I mean an identity in which a party implicitly or explicitly defines itself in a negative way, specifically, by way of contrast to some other party....

Dedicated to a confluence of issues of our times, `Cross-culture, Multiculturalism, and Migration,’ this volume addresses a necessary and very current desire of our society regarding the need for people to prove their lifestyle, culture and religious traditions to others, in while facing the...