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Segregation is a widely-observed phenomenon through history, different cultures and around the world. This paper addresses how in a network of immigrants segregation emerges from friendship homophily. The simulation results show that homophily results in clusters of lower and higher local language use. A mathematical analysis provides a more in depth understanding of the phenomena observed in the simulations.
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Kappert, C., Rus, R., Treur, J. (2018). On the Emergence of Segregation in Society: Network-Oriented Analysis of the Effect of Evolving Friendships. In: Nguyen, N., Pimenidis, E., Khan, Z., Trawiński, B. (eds) Computational Collective Intelligence. ICCCI 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11055. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-98443-8_17
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