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Social group, often immigrant, living with reduced contact with the wider society From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Parallel society refers to the self-organization of an ethnic or religious minority, often but not always immigrant groups, with the intent of a reduced or minimal spatial, social and cultural contact with the majority society into which they immigrate.^[1]

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The term was introduced into the debate about migration and integration in the early 1990s by the German sociologist Wilhelm Heitmeyer.^[2] It rose to prominence in the European public discourse following the murder of Dutch director and critic of Islam Theo van Gogh.^{[citation needed]} In 2004, the Association for the German Language ranked the term second in their Word of the year list.^[3]

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See also

Parallel state
Pillarisation
Multiculturalism
Leitkultur
Auto-segregation
Ghetto
Dhimmi
Parallel Polis, the deliberate creation of a parallel society to overcome oppressive systems
Sensitive urban zone (France)
Vulnerable residential area (Denmark)
Vulnerable area (Sweden)

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