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Antecedents Of Trust Among Citizens And Non-Citizens In Qatar

Document Type

Article

Keywords

Ethnic minorities, Generalized trust, Middle East and North Africa, Social capital

Journal/Book/Conference Title

Journal of International Migration and Integration

Volume

18

Issue

1

First Page

183

Last Page

202

Abstract

Utilizing new survey data on social capital, we examine the determinants and locus of generalized trust among citizens and immigrants in Qatar, a small, heterogeneous, wealthy, and non-democratic country in which immigrants far outnumber citizens. Scholars of social capital have explored the development of generalized trust in many countries. Most of this attention has focused on the Western world, and little is known about how trust forms in other contexts. Our findings show that important insights resulting from research in developed democracies apply and have explanatory power in some of the very different environments present in Qatar, that these insights do not apply and have explanatory power in some of the other environments present in Qatar, that circumstances and experiences that characterize this array of environments can be identified and described in terms of variable attributes, and that linkages can be established between these attributes and particular antecedents of generalized trust.

Department

Center for Social & Behavioral Research

Original Publication Date

2-1-2017

DOI of published version

10.1007/s12134-016-0474-0

Repository

UNI ScholarWorks, Rod Library, University of Northern Iowa

Language

en

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