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Diversity is associated with more White support for nationalist parties, except at the local level where large immigrant populations cut into vote totals for nationalist parties.

http://sf.oxfordjournals.org/content/92/1/249

In Australia, ethnic diversity lowers social cohesion and increases “hunkering”, providing support for Putnam’s thesis finding the same results in the US.

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/juaf.12015/abstract

After controlling for a self-selection bias, study finds that ethnic diversity in English schools reduces trust in same-age people and does not make White British students more inclusive in their attitudes towards immigrants.

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0049089X14001392

In Germany, residential diversity reduces natives’ trust in neighbors, while it also reduces immigrants’ trust but through a different pathway.

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0049089X1400074X

Increasing social pluralism (diversity) is correlated with increased chance of collective violence.

https://www.jstor.org/stable/425106?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents

[E]thnic heterogeneity [diversity] explains 55% of the variation in the scale of ethnic conflicts, and the results of regression analysis disclose that the same relationship more or less applies to all 187 countries. … [E]thnic nepotism is the common cross-cultural background factor which supports the persistence of ethnic conflicts in the world as long as there are ethnically divided societies.

http://www.scirp.org/reference/ReferencesPapers.aspx?ReferenceID=1251240

Genetic Similarity Theory (GST) could help explain why diverse groups in close proximity increases ethnic conflict and ethnic nepotism.

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0191886912005569