A network model of immigration: enclave formation vs. cultural integration

DOI10.3934/NHM.2019004MaRDI QIDQ2328342zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Tom Chou, Maria R. D'Orsogna, Yao-Li Chuang

Publication date 10 October 2019

Published in Networks and Heterogeneous Media (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.09396

zbMATH Keywords

game theoryopinion dynamicsagent-based modelnetwork dynamicssociological model

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Social networks; opinion dynamics (91D30) Connectivity (05C40) Games on graphs (graph-theoretic aspects) (05C57) Stochastic network models in operations research (90B15)

Abstract: Successfully integrating newcomers into native communities has become a key issue for policy makers, as the growing number of migrants has brought cultural diversity, new skills, and at times, societal tensions to receiving countries. We develop an agent-based network model to study interacting "hosts" and "guests" and identify the conditions under which cooperative/integrated or uncooperative/segregated societies arise. Players are assumed to seek socioeconomic prosperity through game theoretic rules that shift network links, and cultural acceptance through opinion dynamics. We find that the main predictor of integration under given initial conditions is the timescale associated with cultural adjustment relative to social link remodeling, for both guests and hosts. Fast cultural adjustment results in cooperation and the establishment of host-guest connections that are sustained over long times. Conversely, fast social link remodeling leads to the irreversible formation of isolated enclaves, as migrants and natives optimize their socioeconomic gains through in-group connections. We discuss how migrant population sizes and increasing socioeconomic rewards for host-guest interactions, through governmental incentives or by admitting migrants with highly desirable skills, may affect the overall immigrant experience.

Recommendations

• Evolutionary dynamics of nationalism and migration
• Immigration and integration nonlinear dynamics of minorities
• Voting with your feet: payoff biased migration and the evolution of group beneficial behavior
• Socialization networks and the transmission of interethnic attitudes
• Entry limitations and heterogeneous tolerances in a Schelling-like segregation model

Cites work

• A bistable belief dynamics model for radicalization within sectarian conflict
• A discrete nonlinear and non-autonomous model of consensus formation
• A dynamical systems model of unorganized segregation
• Collective dynamics of `small-world' networks
• Competition of tolerant strategies in the spatial public goods game
• Decentralized interaction and co-adaption in the repeated prisoner's dilemma
• Emergence of segregation in evolving social networks
• Highly dispersed networks generated by enhanced redirection
• Reaching a Consensus

Cited in

(5)

• Polarization and segregation through conformity pressure and voluntary migration: simulation analysis of co-evolutionary dynamics
• Effects of attitudes on the evolution of cooperation on complex networks
• Ethnic Enclaves and the Economic Success of Immigrants--Evidence from a Natural Experiment
• On the spread of charitable behavior in a social network: a model based on game theory
• Predicting the rise of EU right-wing populism in response to unbalanced immigration

This page was built for publication: A network model of immigration: enclave formation vs. cultural integration

Report a bug (only for logged in users!)Click here to report a bug for this page (MaRDI item Q2328342)