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Previous chapters in this book have argued that social capital might, in some instances, have negative health externalities. This chapter will focus on the unequal distribution of health between immigrants and natives in the Swedish welfare state, and whether some negative properties of immigrants’ social networks, and the social capital embedded in these, might account for such health inequalities.
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This chapter is a further elaboration of the article: Rostila, M (2010) “Birds of a Feather Flock Together — and Fall Ill? Migrant Homophily and Health in Sweden”, Sociology of Health and Illness 32(3); 382–399.
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Rostila, M. (2013). The Dark Sides of Social Capital: Homophily and Closure of Immigrants’ Social Networks in the Swedish Welfare State. In: Social Capital and Health Inequality in European Welfare States. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137305664_8
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