How do people living in contemporary Germany react to diversification in their everyday lives? What undergirds pro-diversity perspectives among those who live in rapidly diversifying cities? Conversely, what are their limits, and what groups are excluded? This project aims to elucidate the foundations and mechanisms underlying diversity assent in cities located both in West and East Germany. Two core motivations underlie the project: (1) thus far, it is insufficiently understood what motivates those who oppose right-wing positions, usually a majority among inhabitants of cities in Germany and other Western European countries; and (2) this project builds on a previous large-scale project of the department, “Diversity and Contact”, and explores to what extent attitudes and patterns of interaction have changed, or remained constant, in the decade from 2010 to 2020, i.
The purported spatial segregation of Muslim populations in Western Europe constitutes a longstanding policy and scholarly concern, yet little spatial data exists for purposes of empirical study. The MAPISLAM dataset is a research effort aimed at bridging this gap for the French empirical context. MAPISLAM relies on publicly available online repositories of addresses for places of interest destined to the Muslim communities of France’s major cities - namely mosques and prayers rooms, religious butcher shops, religious bookstores and schools.