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Capitale sociale e frammentazione etnica

Questa sezione comprende ricerche sul ruolo della frammentazione etnica e dell'immigrazione nei processi di formazione e accumulazione di capitale sociale. Sono inclusi anche diversi studi empirici sulla relazione tra lo sviluppo economico e la struttura sociale, quando tra gli indicatori utilizzati per definire quest'ultima sia presente anche il grado di frammentazione etno-linguistica e religiosa.

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Letture fondamentali

• Alesina, A., La Ferrara, E. (2000), Participation in Heterogeneous Communities, The Quarterly Journal of Economics, August 2000, Vol. 115, No. 3, 847-904(58).

• Alesina, A., La Ferrara, E. (2002), Who Trusts Others?, Journal of Public Economics 85, 207-234.

• Chen, X. (2000), Both Glue and Lubricant: Transnational Ethnic Social Capital as a Source of Asia-Pacific Subregionalism, Policy Sciences, Vol. 33, No. 3 pp.269-287.

• Collier, P. (1999), The Political Economy of Ethnicity, Annual Bank Conference on Development Economics 1998, Washington, DC, The World Bank.

• McLeod P.L., Lobel, S.A., Cox, T.H. (1996), Ethnic Diversity and Creativity in Small Groups, Small Group Research 27 (2), 248-264.

• Miguel, E., Gugerty, M.K. (2002), Ethnic Diversity, Social Sanctions and Public Goods in Kenya, University of California Berkeley, mimeo.

• Portes, A. (ed) (1995), The Economic Sociology of Immigration: Essays on Networks, Ethnicity and Entrepreneurship, New York, Russel Sage Foundation.

• Portes, A. (2003), Ethnicities: Children of Migrants in America, Development September 2003, vol. 46, no. 3, pp. 42-52(11).

• Portes, A., Sensenbrenner, J. (1993), Embeddedness and Immigration: Notes on the Social Determinants of Economic Action, American Journal of Sociology, 98(6), 1320-1350.

• Varshney, A. (2002), Ethnic Conflict and Civic Life: Hindus and Muslims in India, New Haven, Yale University Press.

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Approfondimenti

• Alesina, A., Baqir, R., Easterly, W. (1997), Public Goods and Ethnic Divisions, The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 114(4), 1243-1284.

• Alesina, A., Devleesschauwer, A., Easterly, W., Kurlat, S., Wacziarg, R. (2003), Fractionalization, Journal of Economic Growth, 8, 155-194.

• Almond, G.A., Verba, S. (1963), The Civic Culture: Political Attitudes and Democracy in Five Nations, Princeton, Princeton University Press.

• Amudeo-Dorantes, C., Mundra, K. (2004), Social Networks and Their Impact on the Employment and Earnings of Mexican Immigrants, San Diego State University, Department of Economics, mimeo.

• Annett, A. (2001), Social Fractionalization, Political Instability, and the Size of Government, IMF Staff Papers, Vol. 48, No. 3, International Monetary Fund.

• Bauer, T., Epstein, G., Gang, I.N. (2000), What Are Migration Networks?, IZA Discussion Paper No. 200, Institute for the Study of Labour.

• Bedolla, L.G., Scola, B. (2004), Race, Social Relations and the Study of Social Capital, Paper presented at the 2004 American Political Science Association annual meeting, Chicago, IL, September 1-4, 2004.

• Bernabé Aguilera, M. (2003), The Impact of the Worker: How Social Capital and Human Capital Influence the Job Tenure of Formerly Undocumented Mexican Immigrants, Sociological Inquiry, Vol. 73, Issue 1, February 2003.

• Black, J.H. (1987), The Practice of Politics in Two Settings: Political Transferability Among Recent Immigrants to Canada, Canadian Journal of Political Science, 20, 731-753.

• Borjas, G. (1995), Ethnicity, Neighborhoods, and Human Capital Externalities, The American Economic Review, Vol. 85, no. 3 (1995): 365-390.

• Bouckaert, J., Dhaene, G. (2002), Inter-Ethnic Trust and Reciprocity: Results of an Experiment with Small Business Entrepreneurs, Universiteit Gent, Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde Working Paper 2002/150.

• Bueker, C., Glick, J.E., White, M. (2002), The Impact of Immigration on Residential Segregation, Revisited, Paper presented to the American Sociological Association, August 2002.

• Carroll, B., Carroll, T. (2000), Accommodating ethnic diversity in a modernizing democratic state: theory and practice in the case of Mauritius, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Vol. 23, No. 1, 120-142.

• Chang, H. (1997), Democracy, Diversity, and Social Capital, National Civic Review, Vol. 86, No. 2, 141-147.

• Charles, K., Kline, P. (2002), Relational Costs and the Production of Social Capital: Evidence from Carpooling, NBER Working Paper N. 9041.

• Chen, X. (2000), Both Glue and Lubricant: Transnational Ethnic Social Capital as a Source of Asia-Pacific Subregionalism, Policy Sciences, Vol. 33, No. 3 pp.269-287.

• Coffé, H., Geys, B. (2005), Community Heterogeneity: A Burden for the Creation of Social Capital?, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Department of Political Science.

• Collier, P., Gunning, J.W. (1997), Explaining African Economic Performance, Journal of Economic Literature, 64-111.

• Costa, D., Kahn, M. (2003), Civic Engagement and Community Heterogeneity: An Economist’s Perspective, Perspectives on Politics. 1(1), 103-111.

• Dakhli, M., Khorram, S., Vora, D. (2004), Cultural Diversity, Information Pooling, and Group Effectiveness: A Network Approach, Paper presented at the JIBS/AIB Paper Development Workshop, July 10, 2004 in Stockholm, Sweden.

• De Souza Briggs, X. (1998), Brown Kids in White Suburbs: Housing Mobility and the Many Faces of Social Capital, Housing Policy Debate, Volume 9, Issue 1.

• Easterly, W. (2000), Can Institutions Resolve Ethnic Conflict?, Economic Development and Cultural Change v49, n4: 687-706.

• Easterly, W., Levine, R. (1995), Africa's Growth Tragedy: A Retrospective, 1960-89, Policy Research Working Paper 1503, Policy Research Department, Washington, DC, World Bank.

• Fearon, J., Laitin, D. (1996), Explaining Interethnic Cooperation, American Political Science Review, 90(4), 715-735.

• Fedderke, J., Klitgaard, R. (1998), Economic Growth and Social Indicators: An Exploratory Analysis, Economic Development and Cultural Change, 46(3), 455-489.

• Fisman, R. (2000), Preferential credit? Ethnic and indigenous firms vie for equal access, Columbia University (USA) / id21 Development Reporting Service.

• Forbes, H.D. (1997), Ethnic Conflict: Commerce, Culture and the Contact Hypotesis, London, Yale University Press.

• Galooba-Mutebi, F. (2004), Witchcraft, Trust and Reciprocity Among Mozambican Refugees and Their South African Hosts in a Lowveld Village, Forced Migration Working Paper Series n.9, Forced Migration Studies Programme, University of the Witwatersrand.

• Glick, J.E., Kim, A., White, M. (2003), Mapping Social Distance: Ethnic Residential Segregation in a Multiethnic Metro, Preliminary PAA Draft, 15 April, 2003.

• Gonzales, K.P., Stoner, C., Jovel, J.E. (2003), Examining the Role of Social Capital in Access to College for Latinas: Toward a College Opportunity Framework, Journal of Hispanic Higher Education, Vol. 2, No. 2, 146-170 (2003).

• Granovetter, M. (1995), The Economic Sociology of Firms and Entrepreneurs, in Portes, A. (ed), The Economic Sociology of Immigration: Essays on Networks, Ethnicity and Entrepreneurship, New York, Russel Sage Foundation.

• Hao, L., Johnson, R.W. (2000), Economic, Cultural, and Social Origins of Emotional Well-Being: Comparisons of Immigrants and Natives at Midlife, Research on Aging, November 2000, vol. 22, no. 6, pp. 599-629(31).

• Heliwell, J.F. (1996), Do Borders Matter for Social Capital? Economic Growth and Civic Culture in U.S. States and Canadian Provinces, NBER Working Paper No. W5863.

• Johnston, R. Soroka, S.N. (2001), Social Capital in a Multicultural Society. The Case of Canada, in Dekker, P., Uslaner, E. (eds), Social Capital and Participation in Everyday Life, London, Routledge.

• Junius, K., Nitsch, V. (2001), Ethnic Ties, Search Costs and Trade: An Empirical Investigation, DGZ-Deka Bank and Bankgesellschaft Berlin, mimeo.

• Kaufman, G., White, M. (1997), Language Usage, Social Capital, and School Completion among Immigrants and Native-Born Ethnic Groups, Social Science Quarterly, 78(June 1997), 385-398.

• Knack, S., Keefer, P. (1997), Does Social Capital Have An Economic Payoff? A Cross Country Investigation, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 112/4, 1251-1288.

• Lassen, D.D. (2003), Ethnic Divisions, Trust, and the Size of the Informal Sector, Economic Policy Research Unit and University of Copenhagen, mimeo.

• Lehning, P.B. (1998), Towards a Multicultural Civil Society: The Role of Social Capital and Democratic Citizenship, Government and Opposition, 33, 2, 221.

• Leigh, A. (2004), Does Equality Lead to Fraternity?, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, mimeo.

• Leigh, A. (2004), Trust, Inequality and Ethnic Heterogeneity, John F. Kennedy School of Government, mimeo.

• Leonard, J.S., Levine, D. (2004), Diversity, Discrimination, and Performance, University of California, Haas School of Business, mimeo.

• Li, W., Zhou, Y., Dymski, G., Chee, M. (2001), Banking on social capital in the era of globalization: Chinese ethnobanks in Los Angeles, Environment and Planning A, Vol 33, No. 11 pp. 1923-1948.

• Lind, J.T. (2003), Fractionalization and the Size of Governenment, University of Oslo, Department of Economics, mimeo.

• Loizos, P. (2000), Are Refugees Social Capitalists?, in Baron, S., Field, J., Sculler, T. (eds), Social Capital. Critical Perspectives, Oxford, Oxford University Press.

• Loury, G.C. (1999), Social Exclusion and Ethnic Groups: The Challenge to Economics, Annual World Bank Conference on Development Economics 1999.

• Lyons, M., Snoxell, S. (2004), Migration, informality and sustainable urban livelihoods: the role of social capital in four west African markets, Migration and Social Capital Working Paper 1/04, London South Bank University, Urban & Peri-Urban Research Unit, forthcoming in Urban Studies.

• Lyons, M., Snoxell, S. (2004), Creating urban social capital: Some evidence from informal traders in Nairobi, Migration and Social Capital Working Paper 2/04, London South Bank University, Urban & Peri-Urban Research Unit, forthcoming in Urban Studies.

• Massey, D. (1998), March of Folly: U.S. Immigration Policy after NAFTA, The American Prospect, 37:22–33.

• Massey, D., Phua, V.C., White, M. (1996), The Dimensions of Segregation Revisited, Sociological Methods and Research 25 (November 1996), 172-206.

• Massey, D, Espinosa, K. (1997), What’s Driving Mexico-U.S. Migration? A Theoretical, Empirical, and Policy Analysis, American Journal of Sociology 102(4):939–99.

• Miguel, E. (2000), Ethnic Diversity and School Funding in Kenya, University of California Berkeley CIDER Working Paper, #C01-119.

• Miguel, E. (2002), Tribe or Nation? Nation-Building and Public Goods in Kenya versus Tanzania, Department of Economics, University of California, Berkeley, mimeo.

• Miguel, E., Gertler, P., Levine, D.I. (2001), Did Industrialization Destroy Social Capital in Indonesia?, Center for International and Development Economics Research, Working Paper Series No. 1047.

• Nee, V., Sanders, J., Sernau, S. (1994), Job Transitions in Immigrant Metropolis: Ethnic Boundaries and the Mixed Economy, American Sociological Review, 59, 849-72.

• Newbold, K.B. (2004), Chinese Assimilation Across America: Spatial and Cohort Variations, Growth and Change March 2004, vol. 35, no. 2, pp. 198-219(22).

• Noguera, P.A. (2003), Schools, Prisons, and Social Implications of Punishment: Rethinking Disciplinary Practices, Theory Into Practice, Vol. 42, No. 4, Pages 341-350.

• Paletz, S.B.F., Peng, K., Erez, M., Maslach, C. (2004), Ethnic Composition and its Differential Impact on Group Processes in Diverse Teams, Small Group Research, Vol. 35, no. 2, 128-157.

• Posner, D.(2000), Ethnic Fractionalization: How (Not) To Measure It? What Does (and Doesn’t) It Explain?, University of California Los Angeles, Department of Political Science, mimeo.

• Posner, D., Humphreys, M., Weinstein, J. (2002), Ethnic Identity, Collective Action, and Conflict: An Experimental Approach, Paper prepared for Presentation at APSA, Boston, September 2002.

• Rahn, W., Suk Yoon, K., Loflin, K. (2003), Geographies of Trust: Explaining Inter-Community Variation in General Social Trust Using Hierarchical Linear Modeling (HLM), Paper prepared for and presented at the 58th Annual Conference of the American Association for Public Opinion Research Nashville, TN, May 16, 2003.

• Reilly, B., Phillpot, R. (2002), “Making Democracy Work” in Papua New Guinea: Social Capital and Provincial Development in an Ethnically Fragmented Society, Asian Survey, Vol. 42, No. 6 pp. 906-927.

• Reyes-ruiz , R. (2005), Creating latino communities in the Tokyo-Yokohama metropolitan area, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Vol. 31, No. 1, 151-169.

• Sanders, J. (2002), Ethnic Boundaries and Identity in Plural Societies, Annual Review of Sociology, Vol. 28 pp. 327-357.

• Sassler, S., White, M. (1997), Ethnicity Gender and Social Mobility in 1910, Social Science History, 21 (Fall 1997), 321-357.

• Soroka, S., Banting, K., Johnston, R. (2002), Ethnicity, Trust and the Welfare State, in Kay, F., Johnston, R. (eds), Diversity, Social Capital and the Welfare State, Vancouver, University of British Columbia Press.

• Terrén, E. (2005), Integration doesn't mean assimilation: ethnicity, social capital and schooling, University of La Coruña, Unpublished Paper.

• Thomas, D.C. (1999), Cultural diversity and work group effectiveness - An experimental study, Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 30 (2) 242-263.

• Tiemoko, R. (2003), Migration, return and socio-economic change in West Africa: the role of family, Sussex Migration Working Paper no. 15, Sussex Centre for Migration Research.

• Varshney, A. (2001), Ethnic Conflict and Civil Society: India and Beyond, World Politics, Vol. 53, No. 3 pp. 362-398.

• Waldinger, R. (1997), Social Capital or Social Closure? Immigrant Networks in the Labor Market, Lewis Center for Regional Policy Studies Working Paper Series, No. 26.

• Yuval-Davis, N., Anthias, F., Kofman, E. (2005), Secure borders and safe haven and the gendered politics of belonging: Beyond social cohesion, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Vol. 28, No. 3, 513-535.

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