Urban encounters with difference: The contact hypothesis and immigrant integration projects in eastern Berlin

Social and Cultural Geography

Volumn 12, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 685-699

  Matejskova, Tatiana ^a   Leitner, Helga ^b  

^a CENTRAL EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Berlin; Contact hypothesis; Encounter; Immigrant integration; Prejudice

Indexed keywords

EID: 85023733118     PISSN: 14649365     EISSN: 14701197     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14649365.2011.610234     Document Type: Article

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