Ethnic Residential Segregation and Immigrants’ Perceptions of Discrimination in West Germany

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“…Nevertheless, our study contributes to current segregation theory and research in several respects. First, extending studies on the consequences of segregation for social mobility and integration, in particular regarding immigrant populations in European societies (e.g., Dill and Jirjahn ), our findings suggest that behavioral discrimination also exists in dyadic social exchange relations between individuals from different neighborhoods. In addition to evidence regarding generalized trust (Putnam ; Uslaner , ), this finding is important because it refers to trust in specific social exchanges in which both players can be better off when they cooperate.…”

“…In general, existing research suggests that the integration of immigrants differs across countries and groups, although immigrants from other European countries are substantially less isolated than those from the Middle East, Asia, and Africa (Glikman and Semyonov ). For example, studies have shown that immigrants in segregated neighborhoods report ethnic discrimination more frequently (Dill and Jirjahn ), that ethnic diversity can negatively affect collective efficacy (Kleinhans and Bolt ), and that the size of some ethnic neighborhood minorities is linked to less positive attitudes toward those minorities (Havekes et al. ).…”