Publications

Publication details [#61536]

Deffa, Oromiya-Jalata. 2016. The impact of homogeneity on intra-group cohesion: a macro-level comparison of minority communities in a Western diaspora. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development 37 (4) : 343–356.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
cohesion | ethnicity | group interaction | minority language | religion
Language as a subject
Armenian | English, American | English, British | Oromo | Pakistani | Somali
Place, Publisher
Routledge
Journal WWW
www.multilingual-matters.com/multi/onlinej.asp

Annotation

This comparative study of Oromo-, Armenian-, and Somali-American and British-Pakistani diasporic minorities asserts that homogeneity as to language and religion strengthens intra-group unity and ethnic orientation.