Racial conflicts and game theory analysis

Abstract

This article deals with racial conflicts due to market discrimination of Third World immigrants in a Barcelona's district where the concentration of internal and external immigration is high compared with other districts and other Spanish towns and villages. According to survey data on labour and life conditions of immigrants, on the one hand; and xenophobic and racist attitudes, on the other, the strategies and preferences of the diverse social agents o players (Administration, employers, trade unions, Spanish workers, foreign workers) are drawn. Game theory is applied and conflict is shown through the matrixes which present different solutions of a conflict situacion.