Unity in Diversity? How Intergroup Contact Can Foster Nation Building
By Samuel Bazzi, Arya Gaduh, Alexander D. Rothenberg, Maisy Wong. The American Economic Review, 2019
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We use a population resettlement program in Indonesia to identify long-run effects of intergroup contact on national integration. In the 1980s, the government relocated two million ethnically diverse migrants into hundreds of new communities. We find greater integration in fractionalized communities with many small groups, as measured by national language use at home, intermarriage, and children’s name choices. However, in polarized communities with a few large groups, ethnic attachment increases and integration declines. Residential segregation dampens these effects. Social capital, public goods, and ethnic conflict follow similar patterns. Overall, our findings highlight the importance of localized contact in shaping identity. (JEL D63, J12, J15, J18, O15, R23, Z13)
Subfields: Demography, Sociology and Political Science
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- Types of Contact: A Field Experiment on Collaborative and Adversarial Caste Integration (2021, background): “For example, contact between several small groups may lead to quite different group dynamics than contact between two large groups ( Bazzi et al. 2019 .”
- Building Nations through Shared Experiences: Evidence from African Football (2020, unknown): “However, such policies often include the provision of public services: from mass schooling to military conscription, from infrastructure building to resettlement programs ( Tilly 1975, Weber 1976, Finer 1975, Ramirez and Boli 1987, Bandiera et al. 2019, Conversi 2008, Bel 2011, Bazzi et al. 2019 .”