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dc.contributor.author	Wang, Senhu
dc.contributor.author	Morav, Liran
dc.contributor.orcid	Wang, Senhu [0000-0002-0065-7059]
dc.contributor.orcid	Morav, Liran [0000-0001-7415-6591]
dc.date.accessioned	2021-01-29T00:30:54Z
dc.date.available	2021-01-29T00:30:54Z
dc.date.issued	2021-06
dc.description.abstract	In Britain, civil society organizations (CSOs) have garnered much praise for promoting interethnic friendships (IEF) and strengthening community cohesion. Yet, there is very little empirical evidence to suggest that participation in CSOs promotes ethnic minorities' IEF. Using nationally representative longitudinal (2011-2019) and cross-sectional (2010) data, this article explores the association between participation in CSOs and IEF formation among five British ethnic minority groups and analyses how this relationship is affected by the ethnic composition of CSOs. Overall, fixed effects models show that participation in CSOs only significantly promotes IEF for Indians. For other minority groups it has either no effect or, in the case of Pakistanis, significantly decreases IEF. Further analyses show that compared with ethnic minorities that do not participate in any CSOs, those who participate in mostly interethnic CSOs tend to have significantly more IEF, whereas those who participate in mostly co-ethnic CSOs tend to have significantly less IEF. Taken together, these findings suggest that the association between civic participation and ethnic minorities' IEF is much more nuanced than previously thought and policy interventions seeking to improve ethnic integration should, therefore, take the ethnic background of participants and the ethnic composition of CSOs into account.
dc.format.medium	Print-Electronic
dc.identifier.doi	10.17863/CAM.63966
dc.identifier.eissn	1468-4446
dc.identifier.issn	0007-1315
dc.identifier.uri	https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/316850
dc.language	eng
dc.language.iso	eng
dc.publisher	Wiley
dc.publisher.url	http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1468-4446.12819
dc.rights	All rights reserved
dc.subject	civic organizations
dc.subject	civic participation
dc.subject	ethnic minorities
dc.subject	immigrants
dc.subject	interethnic friendships (IEF)
dc.subject	social integration
dc.subject	Cross-Sectional Studies
dc.subject	Ethnicity
dc.subject	Friends
dc.subject	Humans
dc.subject	Minority Groups
dc.subject	United Kingdom
dc.title	Participation in civil society organizations and ethnic minorities' interethnic friendships in Britain.
dc.type	Article
dcterms.dateAccepted	2021-01-18
prism.endingPage	828
prism.issueIdentifier	3
prism.publicationDate	2021
prism.publicationName	Br J Sociol
prism.startingPage	808
prism.volume	72
pubs.funder-project-id	ESRC (1786381)
rioxxterms.licenseref.startdate	2021-06
rioxxterms.licenseref.uri	http://www.rioxx.net/licenses/all-rights-reserved
rioxxterms.type	Journal Article/Review
rioxxterms.version	AM
rioxxterms.versionofrecord	10.1111/1468-4446.12819

Participation in civil society organizations and ethnic minorities' interethnic friendships in Britain.

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