Cities and diversity
I use data from a unique survey applied to the residents of eighteen ethnically diverse immigrant neighborhoods located in six European cities to investigate the effects of immigration-driven ethnic diversity for the livelihoods and social cohesion of contemporary (European) cities and neighborhoods.
Particularly, I am working on two papers uncovering which sociodemographic and attitudinal elements are associated with different levels of interpersonal trust in neighbors, and with the formation (or not) of interethnic contacts of different types and levels of intimacy in these ethnically diverse immigrant neighborhoods.
In a first publication, I found that, contrarily to the results of many previous works, the residents of these diverse European neighborhoods generally have high levels of trust in their neighbors. Additionally, migrants trust their neighbors less than the autochthonous population. And, religious people tend to assess the trustworthiness of their neighbors more positively.
Particularly, I am working on two papers uncovering which sociodemographic and attitudinal elements are associated with different levels of interpersonal trust in neighbors, and with the formation (or not) of interethnic contacts of different types and levels of intimacy in these ethnically diverse immigrant neighborhoods.
In a first publication, I found that, contrarily to the results of many previous works, the residents of these diverse European neighborhoods generally have high levels of trust in their neighbors. Additionally, migrants trust their neighbors less than the autochthonous population. And, religious people tend to assess the trustworthiness of their neighbors more positively.
Publications
Rui F. Carvalho (2020). Trust thy neighbour? Interpersonal trust in twelve ethnically diverse European neighbourhoods. In: Marta Smagacz-Poziemska, M. Victoria Gómez, Patricia Pereira, Laura Guarino, Sebastian Kurtenbach and Juan J. Villalón (eds.) Inequality and Uncertainty: Current Challenges for Cities. Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 185-204.