An Identity-Based Matching Theory Approach to Integration

M. Burnazoglu

doi:10.1080/07360932.2017.1406387

An Identity-Based Matching Theory Approach to Integration

M. Burnazoglu

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Abstract

This paper aims to explain immigration and integration behavior in complex economic system using a framework that emphasizes social identity mechanisms. Immigration concerns individuals’ move from one society to another. Integration concerns the evolution of migrants’ identities and of consequent behaviors in the matching processes between immigrants and social groups in host countries. I suggest that we switch the basis for motivation to form matching from price to social identities and explain migrants’ interactions in host countries in individual-to-group types of interactions rather than the individual-to-individual types of interactions that standard approach employs. Thus, I propose a shift from an isolated individual economic approach through the market mechanism to an identity-based matching theory approach to integration.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	108-123
Number of pages	16
Journal	Forum for Social Economics
Volume	50
Issue number	1
Early online date	2018
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/07360932.2017.1406387
Publication status	Published - 2021

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Funding Information:
This work was supported by the William R. Waters Research Grant from the Association for Social Economics.

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© 2017 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.

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identity
immigration
integration
search and matching

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