Physics – Physics and Society
Scientific paper
2009-10-16
Physics
Physics and Society
Scientific paper
Migration phenomena and all the related issues, like integration of different social groups, are intrinsically complex problems since they strongly depend on several competitive mechanisms as economic factors, cultural differences and many others. By identifying a few essential assumptions, and using the statistical mechanics of complex systems, we propose a novel quantitative approach that provides a minimal theory for those phenomena. We show that the competitive interactions in decision making among a population of $N$ host citizens and $P$ immigrants, a bi-partite spin-glass, give rise to a "social consciousness" inside the host community in the sense of the associative memory of neural networks. The theory leads to a natural quantitative definition of migrant's "integration" inside the community. From the technical point of view this minimal picture assumes, as control parameters, only general notions like strength of the random interactions, the ratio among the two party sizes and the cultural influence. Few steps forward, toward more refined models, which include some structure on the random interaction topology (as dilution to avoid the plain mean field approach) and correlations of experiences felt among the two parties (biasing the distribution of the coupling) are discussed at the end, where we show the robustness of our approach.
Barra Adriano
Contucci Pierluigi
No associations
LandOfFree
Toward a quantitative approach to migrants integration does not yet have a rating. At this time, there are no reviews or comments for this scientific paper.
If you have personal experience with Toward a quantitative approach to migrants integration, we encourage you to share that experience with our LandOfFree.com community. Your opinion is very important and Toward a quantitative approach to migrants integration will most certainly appreciate the feedback.
Profile ID: LFWR-SCP-O-123695