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

DOI10.3934/NHM.2019004zbMATH Open1423.90039arXiv1901.09396OpenAlexW3098436027WikidataQ128519587 ScholiaQ128519587MaRDI QIDQ2328342FDOQ2328342

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)

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.

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

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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)

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