In Britain, civil society organizations (CSOs) have garnered much praise for promoting interethnic friendships (IEF) and strengthening community cohesion. Yet, there is very little empirical evidence to suggest that participation in CSOs promotes ethnic minorities’ IEF. Using nationally representative longitudinal (2011–2019) and cross-sectional (2010) data, this article explores the association between participation in CSOs and IEF formation among five British ethnic minority groups and analyses how this relationship is affected by the ethnic composition of CSOs. Overall, fixed effects models show that participation in CSOs only significantly promotes IEF for Indians. For other minority groups it has either no effect or, in the case of Pakistanis, significantly decreases IEF. Further analyses show that compared with ethnic minorities that do not participate in any CSOs, those who participate in mostly interethnic CSOs tend to have significantly more IEF, whereas those who participate in mostly co-ethnic CSOs tend to have significantly less IEF. Taken together, these findings suggest that the association between civic participation and ethnic minorities’ IEF is much more nuanced than previously thought and policy interventions seeking to improve ethnic integration should, therefore, take the ethnic background of participants and the ethnic composition of CSOs into account.

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参与公民社会组织和少数民族在英国的族际友谊

在英国，民间社会组织 (CSO) 因促进种族间友谊 (IEF) 和加强社区凝聚力而广受赞誉。然而，很少有经验证据表明参与公民社会组织会促进少数民族的 IEF。本文使用具有全国代表性的纵向（2011-2019）和横断面（2010）数据，探讨了五个英国少数民族群体中公民社会组织的参与与 IEF 形成之间的关联，并分析了这种关系如何受到公民社会组织的种族构成的影响。总体而言，固定效应模型表明，参与 CSO 只会显着促进印度人的 IEF。对于其他少数群体，它要么没有效果，要么在巴基斯坦人的情况下，显着降低 IEF。进一步的分析表明，与不参加任何 CSO 的少数民族相比，那些主要参加跨族裔 CSO 的人的 IEF 往往显着增加，而主要参加同族 CSO 的那些人的 IEF 往往要少得多。综上所述，这些发现表明公民参与和少数民族的 IEF 之间的关联比以前认为的要微妙得多，因此，寻求改善种族融合的政策干预措施应该考虑参与者的种族背景和公民社会组织的种族构成.