Introduction — Divided Communities

Vani Borooah and Colin Knox
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Colin Knox: Ulster University

Chapter 1 in The Economics of Schooling in a Divided Society, 2015, pp 1-15 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract As the title suggests, this is a book about the economics of education in a divided community — Northern Ireland. By a ‘divided community’ we mean societies which are partitioned — or which partition themselves — into distinct and identifiable groups such that persons from these groups lead ‘separate’ lives — that is, lives that do not involve association with persons from other groups — with respect to a number of areas. Housing is often such an area of separation; education is another; work might be a third. In all these cases the result is often ‘segregation’, with people from each group living, studying, and working apart from others.

Keywords: School Closure; Community Cohesion; Institutional Racism; School Segregation; Contact Hypothesis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1057/9781137461872_1

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