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Ethnicities
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ISSN (Print) 1468-7968 - ISSN (Online) 1741-2706
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      Pages: 986 - 987
      Abstract: Ethnicities, Volume 23, Issue 6, Page 986-987, December 2023.

      Citation: Ethnicities
      PubDate: 2023-11-10T12:55:14Z
      DOI: 10.1177/14687968231206645
      Issue No: Vol. 23, No. 6 (2023)
       
  • Governing religion in Russia and Bulgaria: Between religious diversity and
           religious nationalism

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      Authors: Marat Iliyasov, Victoria Bogdanova, Liliya Yakova
      Abstract: Ethnicities, Ahead of Print.
      After the collapse of Communism, a major overhaul of the systems of religious governance took place in Bulgaria and Russia. Policies of liberalisation were pursued in both states which created conditions for the revival of religion and growth of religious diversity. This research article analyses the state approaches and policy orientations characterising the governance of religious diversity in Russia and Bulgaria in the post-Communist years as well as challenges to the fulfilment of religious freedom and religious equality. Using the lens of religious nationalism, it demonstrates that religious nationalistic tendencies are significant in both states when it comes to the governance of religious diversity. Furthermore, the analysis suggests that such tendencies are inscribed in a contradiction between constitutionally-established principles and nationalism-tainted practices when it comes to the treatment of some minority religions or/and groups.
      Citation: Ethnicities
      PubDate: 2023-11-08T09:19:30Z
      DOI: 10.1177/14687968231209448
       
  • Rejoinder to article, “Health Inspector Ratings of Asian Restaurants
           during the Early COVID-19 Pandemic,” published by Cherng et al. On Nov.
           29, 2022

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      Authors: Wendy McKelvey, Carolyn Olson, Adria Zern, J. Bryan Jacobson, Corinne Schiff
      Abstract: Ethnicities, Ahead of Print.

      Citation: Ethnicities
      PubDate: 2023-11-07T07:44:44Z
      DOI: 10.1177/14687968231211944
       
  • Competing external demoi and differential enfranchisement: The case of the
           2022 Hungarian election

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      Authors: Myra A. Waterbury
      Abstract: Ethnicities, Ahead of Print.
      This analysis of the 2022 Hungarian parliamentary election highlights the phenomenon of competing external demoi, a situation that emerges when an incumbent government differentially enfranchises and mobilizes different external national communities for electoral purposes, thus triggering a competing mobilization of external voters by non-incumbent political actors. Hungarian parliamentary elections have increasingly become battlegrounds between the ethnic Hungarians living in countries neighboring Hungary, who have access to non-resident Hungarian citizenship and the right the vote in Hungarian elections by mail; and Hungarian emigrants in Western Europe who must vote in person at home or at embassies. These differences in voting access and the highly partisan mobilization of these two external demoi came to a head during the 2022 parliamentary election. This article seeks to explain the development of two different sets of external enfranchisement policies within a single case, a variation that is undertheorized in the literature, and uncovers the causes and consequences of the unique structure of external partisan polarization that emerged in the 2022 election. It argues that we must look at Hungary’s competitive authoritarian regime type in the context of “divided nationhood” and the relationship between incumbent hegemony and opposition mobilization in different types of external communities to explain this outcome.
      Citation: Ethnicities
      PubDate: 2023-11-04T01:43:54Z
      DOI: 10.1177/14687968231213080
       
  • Rejoinder-final right of reply to “health inspector ratings of Asian
           restaurants during the early COVID-19 pandemic”

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      Authors: Hua-Yu S Cherng, Martha Moreno, Jia-Lin Liu
      Abstract: Ethnicities, Ahead of Print.

      Citation: Ethnicities
      PubDate: 2023-11-03T01:49:53Z
      DOI: 10.1177/14687968231211949
       
  • ‘They silenced our voices’; a genealogy of the linguistic
           othering of the Kurds in Iran

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      Authors: Mohammad Bazafkan
      Abstract: Ethnicities, Ahead of Print.
      Since the turn of the twentieth century, the Kurds in Iran have faced various forms of linguistic exclusion. As part of a genealogical project, this article aims to track the lineages of this exclusion. The linguistic exclusions are inscribed in a field of discursivity, which, tracking one of its lineages, turns our attention to the orientalist interventions. The article discusses two complementary projects: the authentication of the Persian language and the othering of the Kurdish language. These projects were made possible by the hegemony of territorial and linguistic discourses over orientalist studies in Iran. Orientalists proposed a periodization of Iranian languages, dividing them into old, middle, and modern eras, with Persian represented as the sole language that has ever existed throughout history, based on their decoding of ancient manuscripts. Meanwhile, the Kurdish language was completely marginalized, and Persian was represented as the essence of all Iranian languages and, consequently, as the language of all Iranians. As a result, an ontological and epistemic horizon emerged, on which all subsequent instances of othering of the Kurds became possible. Finally, the article also examines the ways in which the Kurds have resisted the linguistic exclusions.
      Citation: Ethnicities
      PubDate: 2023-11-01T03:18:34Z
      DOI: 10.1177/14687968231210557
       
  • The (un)importance of ethnicity in adolescents’ boundary making: An
           analysis over a two-school year period in a super-diverse city

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      Authors: Imane Kostet, Gert Verschraegen, Noel Clycq
      Abstract: Ethnicities, Ahead of Print.
      Drawing on three rounds of in-depth interviews with Antwerp pupils aged 11–14, we examine how adolescents’ moral boundary making shifts (or not) during the course of a two-school year period, as they talk about whom they like to hang out with (or not), the diversity in their surroundings and in their friendship groups, and the (un)importance of ethnicity in their peer relations. The results show that adolescents initially draw three subtypes of moral boundaries (based on being “good-rebellious”, “stingy-generous” or “decent-indecent”) to emphasize so-called differences between the majority and minority groups; these boundaries, however, reportedly do not structure their friendship groups and even become disconnected from ethnicity in the latter research rounds. Moral boundaries that are set not to distinguish between ethnic majority and minority groups, but against the children of recently arrived immigrants (“established-outsider” boundaries), however, are salient in all three research rounds and are reportedly not crossed in our respondents’ friendship group formation.
      Citation: Ethnicities
      PubDate: 2023-10-30T09:39:41Z
      DOI: 10.1177/14687968231211440
       
  • Introduction: All quiet on the Eastern front' Recent dynamics in the
           governance of religion in post-communist Europe

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      Authors: Liliya Yakova, Egdūnas Račius
      Abstract: Ethnicities, Ahead of Print.
      Although decades have passed since the constituent republics of what used to be the USSR and the member-states of its satellite Warsaw Pact dropped off the communist rule, in many regards, the countries of Eastern Europe continue to be in transition. One of the areas where this transition is clearly observable in these countries is the governance of religious diversity. In the aftermath of the collapse of communism, most of the states in the region adopted liberal regimes of the governance of religion as well as pro-diversity tendencies, which allowed for the burgeoning and thriving of various religious collectivities. Recently, however, there has been an observable purported turn away from a generally positive attitude in regards to religious diversity in different parts of the region from alleged freedom towards greater control of religious collectivities and their activities. To account for such processes, this special issue takes on the theoretical perspective of religious nationalism to analyse some of the underlying dynamics of such processes. In this the special issue addresses a number of questions, the major of which is: whether religious nationalism influences the governance of religion in post-communist Europe, and if so, how' This introductory piece outlines the research agenda of this special issue and briefly presents the major argument of each case study.
      Citation: Ethnicities
      PubDate: 2023-10-26T09:32:28Z
      DOI: 10.1177/14687968231209324
       
  • Armenian-Americans and the semicentennial of the Medz Yeghern: Ethnic
           mobilization in action

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      Authors: Karina Diłanian-Pinkowicz
      Abstract: Ethnicities, Ahead of Print.
      In the wake of the 100th anniversary, this paper examines the shift in Armenian genocide commemorations materializing in the USA for the 50th anniversary of the 1915 genocide. Explored are ritual aspects of the commemorative practices undertaken to pay homage to its victims. Accentuated is the 1965 landmark year during which Armenians from diasporas around the world (including the American at the heart of this analysis) took to the streets, for the first time, to demand Turkey’s recognition of the Medz Yeghern. Through the prism of two newspapers published in English (Hairenik Weekly and The Armenian Mirror-Spectator), the author explores this ethnic mobilization of the Armenian-American community with its public protest against the decades-long injustice and silence. Unveiled are the inner workings of the commemoration planning, as well as the ways by which Armenian-Americans narrated their tragedy to the host community (in which they were already well-settled). The article depicts the preparations for and the semicentennial itself as the moment of formation of an ethnic body politic – one transcending intra-ethnic competition and dispute even as the group remained formally divided.
      Citation: Ethnicities
      PubDate: 2023-10-25T08:29:16Z
      DOI: 10.1177/14687968231209600
       
  • Religion and nationalism revisited: Insights from southeastern and central
           eastern Europe

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      Authors: Anna Triandafyllidou
      Abstract: Ethnicities, Ahead of Print.
      This paper explores the dynamics behind the rise of religious nationalism in Central Eastern and Southeastern Europe with distinct populist, nativist, and authoritarian overtones. The paper explores the relationship between nationalism and religion today and the broader transformation challenges both within the region and more globally that can shape this relationship. It then looks closer into the historical experiences in the region with regard to the relationship between state and church as well as nationalism and religion, critically analysing how these relations have evolved during nation-state formation in the 19th and early 20th century, under Communism, and in the last three decades. Analysing critically the relevant literature, the paper discusses the entanglements between state and religious institutions as well as between national identity and faith, and how these are mobilised today. The paper argues for the need to consider both internal and external factors in the evolution of the relationship between nationalism and religion in Central Eastern and Southeastern Europe and more broadly.
      Citation: Ethnicities
      PubDate: 2023-10-23T11:21:34Z
      DOI: 10.1177/14687968231207980
       
  • Religious nationalism and the dynamics of religious diversity governance
           in post-communist Eastern Europe

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      Authors: Ani Sarkissian
      Abstract: Ethnicities, Ahead of Print.
      The analysis of the dynamics of the governance of religious diversity in Southeastern and Central Eastern Europe and Russia provided in country studies in this special issue reveals that the countries of the region share several common tendencies but also exhibit significant divergences. This contribution compares the experiences of post-communist transition in religious diversity governance in the countries covered in the special issue. I assess the degree to which liberal regimes of religious diversity governance have been achieved or abandoned. I explore the explanatory factors behind the diversity of regimes in the region and the internal dynamics that these regimes have undergone throughout the post-communist period. I also compare policy issues related to the governance of religious diversity and the subsequent policy approaches adopted to tackle those challenges. The papers in this collection seek to explain a recent turn away from pro-diversity policy orientations by examining the influence of religious nationalism and the securitization of religion. In the conclusion, I argue for the need to consider additional factors related to post-communist transition in analyzing outcomes related to religious diversity governance.
      Citation: Ethnicities
      PubDate: 2023-10-19T09:05:58Z
      DOI: 10.1177/14687968231207975
       
  • Governing religious diversity in Western Balkans: The volatility of
           ethno-religious coexistence in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Albania

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      Authors: Eda Gemi, Etleva Babameto
      Abstract: Ethnicities, Ahead of Print.
      The chartography of physical and imaginary borders between different national communities has historically been a challenging political process, especially in the case of the Balkan Peninsula. As regards ethno-nationalism in the Western Balkans, religion is one of the rudimental and constitutive elements of a nation’s identity. Yet, in theory this can only be true for a religiously homogenous nation-state, although this region is far from being home to religious homogeneity. A case in point is Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), where the lack of religious homogeneity can be illustrated through the three different religions that dominate the two political entities in the country. Albania, another country of Western Balkans, is similar to the case of BiH in relation to religious diversity among its population, but different from it in relation to religion not being an identity element upon which its nation is founded. In view of this diversity of mixed religious heritage embedded in the state formation, this article focuses on the nature of the ethno-religious nationalism in BiH and Albania. By employing a comparative case study approach, this article sets the analytical framework for the study of ethno-religious nationalism, while addressing the state approaches, policy orientations and challenges that characterize the governance of religious diversity in these countries in the post-communist era. The concept of religious nationalism - which is operationalized in ethnic terms – is used to shed light on the two states’ nation-building efforts, which have incorporated a marked religious element. The paper concludes with a cross-country analysis on how the volatility of ethno-religious coexistence in BiH and Albania has shaped their present and shall impact their future.
      Citation: Ethnicities
      PubDate: 2023-10-19T09:04:18Z
      DOI: 10.1177/14687968231208303
       
  • Long-distance nationalism, diaspora mobilisation, and the struggle for
           Biafran self-determination in Nigeria

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      Authors: Stanley Jachike Onyemechalu, Promise Frank Ejiofor
      Abstract: Ethnicities, Ahead of Print.
      Existing works on the sources of secessionist agitations in postcolonial Africa tend to be methodologically nationalist but also circumvent the diasporic dimension. Particularly, the resurgent ethnic separatism amongst Igbos in southeastern Nigeria has been predominantly analysed from the theoretical standpoints of relative marginalisation and material deprivation that focus on domestic politics in post-war Nigeria. We broaden this literature by underscoring the diasporic dimension of this secessionist conflict. Drawing on the literature on diaspora nationalism with a focus on the case of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB)—a transnational separatist movement—we reveal evidence showing how the Igbo diaspora instigate and exacerbate separatist tensions in the homeland by reviving collective memories of the macabre Nigeria-Biafra war (1967–1970) and reimagining alternative political futures for ethnic Igbos devoid of the state’s grand narratives of nationhood. We contend that the diasporic dimension is profoundly critical to comprehending separatist agitations in southeastern Nigeria with implications for wider postcolonial African contexts.
      Citation: Ethnicities
      PubDate: 2023-10-18T11:28:54Z
      DOI: 10.1177/14687968231208307
       
  • Religious nationalism and religious governance: Overlaps and divergences.
           The case of Croatia

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      Authors: Zoran Grozdanov, Nebojša Zelič
      Abstract: Ethnicities, Ahead of Print.
      In this article, we argue that the religious governance in Croatia was shaped by the specific position that was given to the Catholic Church in Croatia as the historical and moral guardian of the Croatian people. We describe how the fusion of religious and national identity occurred and how it was connected to the relationship between the Catholic Church and the political party that governed Croatia in the 1990s, as well as the relationship between the state and minority religious communities. The article also deals with the issue of whether religious nationalism, which is very strong at the levels of society and national self-consciousness, played any role in the governance of religious diversity and how it has influenced social movements that have reconfigured mutual recognition of different religious communities in Croatia.
      Citation: Ethnicities
      PubDate: 2023-10-18T10:48:59Z
      DOI: 10.1177/14687968231208267
       
  • Consociational politics as a mediating effect in strengthening ethnic
           unity among youth in Malaysian public universities

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      Authors: WN Wan Husin, NI Samsudin, WK Mujani, SJ Zainurin
      Abstract: Ethnicities, Ahead of Print.
      This study analyses the role of consociational politics as a mediating effect in enhancing ethnic unity among youth in Malaysia, with reference to the university students, through educational policy, economic system and religious practice. The research focuses on ethnicity due to its persistent influence on election outcomes over the previous two decades. Besides, a significant number of voters choose to base their political choices on the party that resonate with their ethnic interests. For this study, it involved a survey of 373 students from two Malaysian public universities, namely University of Malaya and the National Defence University of Malaysia. The obtained data are subjected to descriptive analysis as well as structural equation modelling (SEM) analysis. The results indicate that all three domains are significant in strengthening ethnic unity among youth, and this finding has national significance since it demonstrates the efficacy of this strategy in safeguarding Malaysia's diverse population The study's findings demonstrate that the grand coalition, as a fundamental component of consociational politics, possesses the capacity to cultivate a political alliance comprising many ethnic groupings, ultimately earning the confidence of the broader populace, particularly the younger generation. This facilitates the ascendance of a politically diverse party with individuals from various ethnic backgrounds to take over governance of the nation. Hence, the successful promotion of racial peace among the youth in Malaysia can be attributed to the implementation of a consociational strategy within the country.
      Citation: Ethnicities
      PubDate: 2023-09-30T04:28:31Z
      DOI: 10.1177/14687968231204667
       
  • Ethnoracist exclusion and anti-immigrant sentiment in Europe: A hybrid
           model analysis using the European Social Survey, 2002–2016

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      Authors: Aaron Ponce
      Abstract: Ethnicities, Ahead of Print.
      The literature on anti-immigrant sentiment analyzes generalized threat—rooted in a mix of cultural and economic anxieties—but relies on a theoretical foundation based on the study of race. This is puzzling since research on immigration attitudes has developed theoretical and empirical blind spots regarding the relevance of race-ethnicity. This study engages with race theories to show that racialization and symbolic racism constitute a primary axis along which a substantial subset of the European public views immigrants. Using five waves of the European Social Survey (2002–2016) and matched country-level data, the study finds that excluding immigrants based on race-ethnicity distinguishes a sizeable minority in most countries, and is also not isolated to any one region. Further, results provide evidence for the racialization of certain immigrant groups through greater associations between these groups’ presence and anti-immigrant sentiment. Strong and consistent reactions to the Muslim foreign-born population stand out. Finally, ethnoracist exclusionists are the primary agents of such racialization as they exhibit the strongest reactions to racialized groups, having the highest anti-immigrant sentiment. Findings are discussed within the context of assumptions underlying classical threat theories, the cultural, religious, and racialized aspects of anti-Muslim sentiment, and the global and local manifestations of race.
      Citation: Ethnicities
      PubDate: 2023-09-29T11:02:14Z
      DOI: 10.1177/14687968231204038
       
  • Independence or a federation' Perceived discrimination as an antecedent of
           Anglophone Cameroonians’ attitude towards the form of state

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      Authors: Elvis Nshom, Immaculate Mkong, Kwoh Elonge, Isidore Agha
      Abstract: Ethnicities, Ahead of Print.
      Since 2016, the Central African country of Cameroon has been experiencing the worst conflict and humanitarian crisis in its history over the systematic marginalization and discrimination of Anglophones and a change in the form of state. This study sets out to explore Anglophone’s perception of discrimination, their attitudes towards the form of state (federation and independence), and the extent to which the perception of discrimination predicts attitudes towards the form of state. In a sample of 314 Anglophones, results showed that attitudes towards the form of state were mixed as there was no significant difference between support for independence and support for a federation. In addition, results indicated that the perception of discrimination among Anglophones was significantly high. Lastly, while controlling for the effect of age, level of education, and economic status, the results showed that the perception of discrimination was significantly related to support for independence but not support for a federation. Implications and avenues for further research are discussed as well.
      Citation: Ethnicities
      PubDate: 2023-09-25T01:51:00Z
      DOI: 10.1177/14687968231203407
       
  • Immigration, ethnic diversity and public goods provisioning: Evidence from
           rural communities in Uganda

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      Authors: Godfreyb Ssekajja
      Abstract: Ethnicities, Ahead of Print.
      A considerable body of literature suggests that immigration undermines voluntary contributions to public goods because it leads to ethnic diversity, which erodes social trust. This article posits that the effect of immigration outweighs that of ethnic diversity, so that immigration may explain why ethnic diversity is negatively associated with social trust and public goods provisioning. I also highlight a need to emphasize the moderating influence of transaction costs when analyzing provisioning problems associated with immigration and ethnic diversity. To examine my hypotheses, I use a mixed-method research design to study public goods management in randomly selected communities in rural Uganda whose rates of immigration and levels of ethnic diversity vary. I analyze community-level attempts at collective action that involve substantially different costs; that is, contributing to toilet construction and participating in litter pickup programs. The findings suggest that socio-political barriers to collective action for public goods provisioning may have less to do with the stock of demographic diversity than the flow rate of demographic change. The same findings suggest a more micro-level explanation that transcends the erosive effects (of immigration and ethnic diversity) on social trust to emphasize the moderating influence of transaction costs.
      Citation: Ethnicities
      PubDate: 2023-08-18T01:49:44Z
      DOI: 10.1177/14687968231193549
       
  • (De)Securitising national minorities: The case of Singapore

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      Authors: Julius CS Mok
      Abstract: Ethnicities, Ahead of Print.
      Singapore presents a unique case study for multiculturalists in that the state leans heavily in its promotion of racial demarcations whilst simultaneously propagating a narrative of the state “regardless of race, language or religion”. This paper argues that this apparent contradiction is a deliberate calculation to use multiculturalism to desecuritise an otherwise disparate multiracial society. Extending He’s (2018) sequencing of multicultural progress as an a priori development to desecuritisation, this paper moves past traditionally democratic assumptions to demonstrate how the Singaporean state has in effect desecuritised national minorities through semi-to-autocratic management of multiculturalism. Referring to ‘securitised multiculturalism’ that has become increasingly evident since the 2000s, the paper progresses to consider how terrorism has affected Singapore’s multicultural formulation and examines the state’s top-down responses to desecuritise the security element in ‘securitised multiculturalism’ to the extent that such is possible.
      Citation: Ethnicities
      PubDate: 2023-08-17T12:47:39Z
      DOI: 10.1177/14687968231196657
       
  • A post-colonial reading of Alexis de Tocqueville’s writings on
           slavery and its aftermaths

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      Authors: Marcel Maussen
      Abstract: Ethnicities, Ahead of Print.
      This article develops a postcolonial and comparative reading of Tocqueville’s writings on slavery. It argues, first, that Tocqueville analyzed the ending of slavery as a revolutionary social transformation involving changes in laws, social relations and mores, and second, that he employed the same analytical framework consistently to discuss processes of abolition in the United States and in the French Caribbean Islands. In the United States the process of abolition of slavery was deepening rather than ending racist prejudices, racial segregation and hatred between the black and the white populations. This would, so Tocqueville predicted, undermine democracy in America. In the plantation colonies he believed the French could draw lessons from the English experiences when organizing the abolition process. Only when legal changes and changes in mores developed in tandem there could be economic and political stability in the aftermath of slavery. This would allow the French to end slavery peacefully, which he deemed necessary if they intended to continue exploiting the colonies. The article argues that Tocqueville demonstrated a deep and critical understanding of the reprehensible, long-lasting role of anti-black racism and slavery in barring the emergence of democratic cultures based on equal standing and integration across racial difference. Yet, he combined this critical perspective on racist slavery with an accepted defense of European supremacy and with a sense of pessimism about the possibilities for Africans to ever become capable of self-government.
      Citation: Ethnicities
      PubDate: 2023-08-16T08:04:18Z
      DOI: 10.1177/14687968231192036
       
  • Returning empty-handed or going somewhere' Tales from social division
           networks of re-migrants in the polarized post-COVID-19 era: A
           phenomenological study

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      Authors: Hanvedes Daovisan, Sayamol Charoenratana, Motoki Akitsu
      Abstract: Ethnicities, Ahead of Print.
      This study poses the following questions: What are the reasons for cross-border re-migration' How are social division networks formed' We conducted a phenomenological study of social division networks for Laotian re-migrants in polarized post-COVID-19 Thailand. Chain referral sampling was used to recruit participants in 20 online semi-structured interviews, which were conducted from December 2021 to April 2022. Thematic saturation (codebook development, codebook refinement, code saturation, emerging themes, and confirming theory) was used to analyze the interview transcripts. Three themes emerged from the participants’ responses: the reasons for re-migration, the role of network capital, and social divisions of re-migrants in polarized post-COVID-19 Thailand. Our findings provide useful insights into the importance of group connections with strong supply network ties to promote transnational mobility; this facilitates the movement of cross-border re-migrants between home-sending and host-receiving countries.
      Citation: Ethnicities
      PubDate: 2023-08-12T09:51:25Z
      DOI: 10.1177/14687968231193826
       
  • ‘It feels made up’: Post racialism and colorblind ideology within
           individual constructions of self identity

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      Authors: Caroline Adolfsson
      Abstract: Ethnicities, Ahead of Print.
      This article aims to explore the interrelation between post racialism, colorblind ideology, and the perception of Swedishness. Through 40 interviews and surveys conducted in Malmö, Sweden, participants were asked to reflect on race, ethnicity, and Swedishness. Multiple meanings were present in the participants’ responses, half of whom were white and half non-white. For white participants, boundaries around the in-group construction of ‘Swedishness’ were based in whiteness, yet these participants held overwhelmingly negative attitudes towards the use of words race or racialization. On the other hand, non-white participants viewed race and racialization with less negative connotations, yet they also endorsed the need to be white in order to be perceived as being Swedish. The results support the notion that abandonment of the word race does not always equate to an abandonment of whiteness. This article builds upon and expands previous findings in the U.S. context while contributing to an emerging body of literature on race and racialization in Sweden. Additionally, it seeks to challenge dominant narratives and assumptions of 'Swedishness' and its connection to whiteness.
      Citation: Ethnicities
      PubDate: 2023-08-10T07:17:40Z
      DOI: 10.1177/14687968231191751
       
  • Between redemption and affirmation: German identity in affective
           narratives of the ‘refugee crisis’

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      Authors: Heidi Armbruster
      Abstract: Ethnicities, Ahead of Print.
      The German ‘refugee crisis’ produced formidable levels of civil society assistance, involving citizens and locations with no previous experience in refugee support. Grounded in research with citizen volunteers in a rural region in southern Germany conducted at a time when rightwing populism gained strength, this article explores how volunteers reflect on their relations with refugees while negotiating distinctly German identities. Scholarship on volunteering in refugee settings has looked at the emotional aspect of this work largely for its political import. This article expands attention to emotions in volunteering from a form of political practice on the ground to a practice of narrative reasoning. In a close reading of interview-derived narratives as affective practices the relevance of locality, identity and history for refugee reception comes to the fore. Deploying the notions of ‘redemptive’ and ‘affirmative’ Germanness the article shows how volunteers draw on specific historical trajectories to produce moral arguments about the support and incorporation of strangers. This article argues that volunteers’ affective involvement with history and locality needs unpacking if their relations of solidarity are to be understood.
      Citation: Ethnicities
      PubDate: 2023-08-04T06:28:41Z
      DOI: 10.1177/14687968231193827
       
  • Revisiting the cruel optimism of racial justice – A response to
           Fadil, Favell and St Louis

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      Authors: Nasar Meer
      Abstract: Ethnicities, Ahead of Print.
      The Cruel Optimism of Racial Justice (2022) adopts neither an unswerving belief in the teleology of justice nor the pessimism that approaches to justice are necessarily incapable of grasping racism. It maintains instead that the accumulated struggle for racial justice invites us to recognise certain starting points, including our organising categories, before tracing seeming success and failure empirically through case studies. In their rigorous and wide-ranging appraisals, Fadil, Favell and St Louis identify a number of possible weaknesses as well as strengths in this approach, and I take the opportunity of this reply to respond to the former.
      Citation: Ethnicities
      PubDate: 2023-06-26T10:30:08Z
      DOI: 10.1177/14687968231183976
       
  • The representation of Jews in the Finnish press before the second world
           war

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      Authors: Sanna Ryynänen
      Abstract: Ethnicities, Ahead of Print.
      This article focuses on the representation of Jews in the Finnish general press before the Second World War. The data comprise of 313 texts gathered from newspapers and magazines that were targeted at general audiences and that appeared between the years 1821–1936. The texts were examined on three levels: First, the upfront topics pertaining to Jews were identified and grouped under 12 themes. Second, the tone of the mentions was evaluated as positive, neutral, or negative. Third, underlying assumptions, opinions and attitudes expressed aside the upfront topics were identified from the texts. Until recent decades, the idea in Finland has been that there was hardly any antisemitism in the country before or during the Second World War. As new research has emerged, this view has repeatedly been challenged. However, research on the general media’s representation of Jews has remained scarce. This article aims at filling this gap. In doing so, it offers a view on how Jews were seen and discussed in the Finnish society at large. So far, the studies on pre-WWII media have concluded that antisemitism was limited to far-right or ultranationalist papers. This article ends up with the opposite conclusion.
      Citation: Ethnicities
      PubDate: 2023-06-24T06:16:36Z
      DOI: 10.1177/14687968231184632
       
  • Symbolic capital and the inclusion of ethnic minority artists in Dublin
           and Warsaw

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      Authors: Waleed Serhan
      Abstract: Ethnicities, Ahead of Print.
      The dominant literature delineates that European museums tend to ‘resist’ the inclusion of immigrant and ethnic minority artists due to a Eurocentric evaluation of the art within a postcolonial setting. This study builds on this premise, but also emphasizes the significance of ‘symbolic capital’, as conceptualized by Pierre Bourdieu, in processes of inclusion and exclusion. While the evaluation of the art is of vast importance, inclusion and exclusion are also influenced by the relation between the symbolic capital of the museum professionals and the cultural and social capital of ethnic minority artists. Moreover, museum professionals in Dublin and Warsaw find creative ways of both safeguarding their symbolic capital and including ethnic minority artists. The research is based on semi-structured interviews with key museum professionals in several main modern art museums and galleries, and with ethnic minority artists, in the relatively new immigration cities of Dublin and Warsaw, as well as a review of past exhibitions.
      Citation: Ethnicities
      PubDate: 2023-06-05T07:13:29Z
      DOI: 10.1177/14687968231181132
       
  • Afghan immigrants in Western Australia: Divisions within the community and
           integration within the society

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      Authors: Omid Rezaei, Vicki Banham, Hossein Adibi
      Abstract: Ethnicities, Ahead of Print.
      The integration process for immigrants is a multi-dimensional concept, influenced by a wide range of structural and individual factors, including social connections that immigrants make in the host society. An important part of this social connection can be developed with other co-nation immigrants within the immigrant community. However, this sometimes can be challenging due to the divisions that might exist within communities. Drawing on data with a mixed-method design, this study focuses on the Afghan community in Western Australia to understand, firstly, the relationship between Afghan immigrants’ social connections within their community and successful integration within Australian society, and secondly the causes of divisions and challenges within the community. To do this, the Immigration Policy Lab (IPL) Integration Index was used to measure the level of integration among 115 Afghan participants in the quantitative phase, with 18 interviews and two focus groups conducted in the qualitative phase, to understand Afghan experiences of divisions within their community. Findings show that there is a correlation between Afghans’ social connections within their community and the four dimensions of economic, social, linguistic, and navigational integration. Qualitative findings also showed the details of the challenges that Afghans face within their community due to ethnic/regional divisions as well as the challenges women face in the community.
      Citation: Ethnicities
      PubDate: 2023-05-31T05:50:11Z
      DOI: 10.1177/14687968231181421
       
  • The will for racial justice

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      Authors: Nadia Fadil
      Abstract: Ethnicities, Ahead of Print.

      Citation: Ethnicities
      PubDate: 2023-05-11T04:21:33Z
      DOI: 10.1177/14687968231176073
       
  • Negotiating between gender, national and professional identities: The
           work-experience of israeli-palestinian women journalists

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      Authors: Einat Lachover
      Abstract: Ethnicities, Ahead of Print.
      This paper analyzes the work experience of Israeli-Palestinian women journalists who reside and work in Israel for local news organizations or non-Israeli news agencies. It focuses on their experiences related to the intersected axes of their gender, ethnic, and national identities. Through thematic analysis of narrative interviews with 24 Palestinian women journalists, the study reveals that their work experiences vary between exclusion and inclusion among different news organizations. Israeli-Palestinian women journalists face barriers getting jobs at mainstream news agencies because of their accent; and when they apply to local Arab news organizations, they confront recruiting procedures based on a clan system that discriminates against women. However, a few of them report an advantage when trying to enter mainstream news organizations based on their image as an “authentic Arab woman.” Additionally, the study finds that the professional identity of all interviewees is closely connected to their ideological perceptions and political aims.
      Citation: Ethnicities
      PubDate: 2023-05-05T01:17:59Z
      DOI: 10.1177/14687968231173759
       
  • Greening self-government' incorporation of environmental justifications
           into sub-state nationalist claim making in Spain

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      Authors: Stephanie Kerr
      Abstract: Ethnicities, Ahead of Print.
      Regional nationalism in Spain – particularly those movements in Catalonia and the Basque Country – have been characterized at the parliamentary level by political parties from both the traditional left and right of the political spectrum. While calls for greater autonomy and even secession are made from both ends of that spectrum, the framings of their calls for self-government vary in content and scope. Since the turn into the 21st century, sub-state nationalist parties of the left - those more typically associated with a prioritization of environmental concerns - in both regions have taken an increased share of the seats in their respective parliaments. Over the same period, climate change has increasingly moved to the front of the list of the concerns of European citizens. This paper investigates the degree to which key regional nationalists of the left have moved to incorporate environmental and climate change concerns into their claim making, narrative, and framings, highlighting both regional, and governance level comparative dynamics.
      Citation: Ethnicities
      PubDate: 2023-05-04T12:03:13Z
      DOI: 10.1177/14687968231171168
       
  • Optimism and the wreckage of racial injustice

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      Authors: Adrian Favell
      Abstract: Ethnicities, Ahead of Print.

      Citation: Ethnicities
      PubDate: 2023-05-04T09:27:57Z
      DOI: 10.1177/14687968231173238
       
  • Race as injustice and the im/possibility of racial justice

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      Authors: Brett St Louis
      Abstract: Ethnicities, Ahead of Print.
      This review essay presents exposition and analysis of Nasar Meer’s, The Cruel Optimism of Racial Justice. I outline Meer’s argument detailing the historical emergence and ongoing social reproduction of racial injustice in relation to nation formation, endemic racism, health inequalities, restrictions on refugees and asylum, and White supremacism as pervasive throughout western societies. I suggest that Meer’s intervention usefully highlights racial injustice as normalised instead of exceptional and also raises the importance of white people divesting their racial privilege. Analytically, I argue that Meer’s book productively opens up a space to reflect on the efficacy of race as a normative category, both intrinsically and in relation to anti/racism. Furthermore, by demonstrating the inherent inequality of race, the book invites the reader to reflect on the coherence of a racialised ideal of justice.
      Citation: Ethnicities
      PubDate: 2023-04-21T08:01:01Z
      DOI: 10.1177/14687968231172390
       
  • Critical Tiriti Analysis: A prospective policy making tool from Aotearoa
           New Zealand

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      Authors: Heather Came, Dominic O’Sullivan, Jacquie Kidd, Tim McCreanor
      Abstract: Ethnicities, Ahead of Print.
      Restrictions on Indigenous peoples’ contributions to policymaking pervade post-settler societies like Australia, Canada and Aotearoa. Such effects are observed in spite of agreements like Te Tiriti o Waitangi in Aotearoa and the United Nations’ Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. Te Tiriti, negotiated between the British Crown and Māori (Indigenous peoples of Aotearoa), may have been entered into honourably by both parties, but the Crown has consistently resisted its implementation. Contemporary colonialism is characterised by the entrenched and on-going displacement of Indigenous people’s authority by settler states, rationalised by race as a determinant of human worth. Impacts include land alienation, unsustainable resource exploitation and marginalising Indigenous voices from opportunities to make policy consistent with Indigenous values and preferred ways of living. Colonialism normalises institutional racism so that public policy outcomes are persistently unjust. This article describes Critical Tiriti Analysis (CTA), an original contribution to transforming colonial policy, which retrospectively evaluates whether any specific policy document is consistent with Te Tiriti. Substantial interest in CTA from policymakers, practitioners, and scholars led to the development of the tool as a prospective guide to making policy that is consistent with authoritative interpretations of Te Tiriti, and therefore, more likely effective in producing public policies which eliminate inequities. CTA was initially focused on health policy and built on a series of questions that arise from our interpretations of the text of Te Tiriti, contemporary Tiriti scholarship and jurisprudence, and our observations of the ways in which the method is being used by ourselves and others. Although deeply grounded in Aotearoa, we argue that CTA may be transferable to other colonial contexts, such as the Australian where treaties between First Nations and the state are being contemplated, and Canada which has passed legislation to implement the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
      Citation: Ethnicities
      PubDate: 2023-04-18T10:53:57Z
      DOI: 10.1177/14687968231171651
       
  • The everyday dimensions of stigma. Morofobia in everyday life of daughters
           of Maghrebi-Spanish couples in Granada and Barcelona (Spain)

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      Authors: Cristina Rodríguez-Reche, Francesco Cerchiaro
      Abstract: Ethnicities, Ahead of Print.
      Negative attitudes towards Muslim minorities are an increasingly common phenomenon in many European countries. This stigma is often associated with religious discrimination; on others, it has a more marked racial connotation. Based on biographical interviews with 19 daughters of mixed Maghrebi-Spanish families in Granada and Barcelona (Spain), this article disentangles the notion of stigma, showing how the experiences of these young women are characterized by a stratified mix of racial, ethnic, and religious discriminations that, together, exemplify how Morofobia takes place in Spain. Our findings highlight how these women are not only passively affected by this stigma, but have learned to cope with it, showing a high degree of reflexivity and acquired social skills that inform their agency. The article encourages the adoption of a cultural sociological perspective to study the meaning of stigma from an emic perspective. In so doing, it sheds light on the everyday consequences of the social transformation of national identities in a historical period dominated by the resurgence of nationalism and ‘bordering regimes.’
      Citation: Ethnicities
      PubDate: 2023-04-15T07:01:33Z
      DOI: 10.1177/14687968231169269
       
  • Exploring mediated representations of migrant domestic workers in the
           Chinese-language media in Hong Kong

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      Authors: Janet Ho, Andrew Sewell
      Abstract: Ethnicities, Ahead of Print.
      Since the 1970s, local residents in Hong Kong have been employing migrant domestic workers (MDWs) for caregiving, cooking, and housekeeping. The vast majority of MDWs are women from the Philippines and Indonesia. Despite their long-standing and numerically significant presence in Hong Kong, many MDWs are still experiencing prejudice or being mistreated. This study focuses on Chinese media coverage of MDW mistreatment cases in Hong Kong and contributes to a growing body of research on the media representation of MDWs. Critical discourse analysis was conducted on 398 articles published between 2010 and 2019 in three popular Chinese-language newspapers, and the discursive representations of perpetrators and victims in the reports were examined. Adopting the conceptual tools of social control and structural inequality, and tracing their connection with the discursive representations, the study highlights the three significant phenomena of perpetrator exoneration and victim blaming, narrativization, and sensationalism. Findings reveal that MDW mistreatment becomes a secondary concern as the articles often highlight the academic achievements and emotional suffering of the perpetrators, relying on entertainment values and neglecting the deeper roots of the issue. The article then examines the ways in which media discourse arises from and shapes prevailing perceptions of MDW issues, showing how the potential for gender-based violence towards MDWs arises from the intersections of inequality across dimensions such as gender, ethnicity and class.
      Citation: Ethnicities
      PubDate: 2023-03-24T01:21:41Z
      DOI: 10.1177/14687968231164721
       
  • Evoking the resemblance: Descriptive representation of ethnic minorities

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      Authors: Jelena Lončar
      Abstract: Ethnicities, Ahead of Print.
      The constructivist approach to political representation has shown that descriptive representation cannot be reduced to passive presence. Descriptive representatives rather actively contribute to the construction of constituencies’ identities. Nevertheless, the existing empirical literature still dominantly operationalizes descriptive representation as mere presence of group members in the representative institutions. This article adds to the previous efforts of rethinking descriptive representation in the more constructivist terms by defining it as consisting of two necessary elements: 1) construction of a representative through activation of claim-maker’s ethnicity, and 2) portrayals of ethnic constituency. The article argues that descriptive representation is performed through the use of diverse boundary mechanisms. In the process of positioning themselves and portraying their constituency, representatives work with and around ethnic boundaries. Using the case of ethnic minority representation in Serbia, the article demonstrates how resemblance or group membership is not necessarily transparent and self-evident. Instead, representatives first need to activate and deploy ethnic boundaries to be perceived as group’s descriptive representatives. In doing so, they also tell stories about ethnic groups, which are consequential upon the ways group members perceive themselves and relations within and across the boundaries.
      Citation: Ethnicities
      PubDate: 2023-03-22T05:48:23Z
      DOI: 10.1177/14687968231166514
       
  • Governing diversity in the multilevel European public space

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      Authors: John Erik Fossum, Riva Kastoryano, Tariq Modood, Ricard Zapata-Barrero
      Abstract: Ethnicities, Ahead of Print.
      The issue of working out a viable relationship between accepting and/or living with diversity on the one hand and fostering integration on the other has occupied public debates, political agendas, and social sciences for decades. Our point of departure is that the contemporary European context provides distinct challenges. We need to understand how postmigrant integration is shaped and conditioned by the European public space understood as a geographical space; a composite of legally and institutionally constituted entities; covering nations, regions, and cities mainly within but also beyond the EU; and a site of interaction, and public expression of contestation and cooperation. In so doing, we have to contend with the fact that such important perspectives for handling diversity as multiculturalism, interculturalism, transnationalism and cosmopolitanism occupy distinct roles within the European public space whose governance is multi-levelled yet not reducible to a single tiered system. The European public space is more encompassing than the EU even while that level of governance has some important regulative functions upon member states and to some extent even on non-EU states such as Norway and the UK, especially in what we refer to as the outer circle. While the national level is the most powerful normatively and by most other measures on the inclusion of difference (our inner circle), municipalities also contribute to the constitution of this space. We explore the logics of our four ‘isms’ and of the tiers of governance and their interaction with each other, both the isms in tensions and syntheses with each other and differentially in relation to the levels of governance. This is an exercise that has not been done before. Our purpose is to suggest a new normativity that might feasibly achieve a broader degree of support and success than any of the isms have achieved alone.
      Citation: Ethnicities
      PubDate: 2023-03-15T07:47:44Z
      DOI: 10.1177/14687968231158381
       
  • ‘Guru Rinpoche is Śivajī’: Ethnicity and ethnic boundary drift in
           Nepal’s ethnic art

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      Authors: Jingwei Li
      Abstract: Ethnicities, Ahead of Print.
      This paper argues that ethnic paintings connotate situational ethnicity, adjusted by social change and ethnic boundaries. Based on anthropological fieldwork focusing on painter and mercantile communities, social-political connotations of ethnic art are discussed by applying an analysis of social semiotics in three discourses, employing the case of post-1990 Nepal. In particular: 1) Modern visual expressions of ethnicity are adopted into anti-hierarchical representations, as people engage in ethnic politics and cultural activities. 2) The two genres of ethnic painting, paubhā, and thangka, which were developed by traditional creators and informed by ethnicity, have experienced and developed a cross-boundary mode of operating in industries in response to social change. 3) In the market and mass media, the narrative of value construction regarding the tradition of ethnic art reveals a sign arena that identifies a drift toward the nation, the state, and civilization, prepensely attempting to mobilize semiotic resources through the lens of politics, the market, and global values.
      Citation: Ethnicities
      PubDate: 2023-03-15T02:53:06Z
      DOI: 10.1177/14687968231161455
       
  • Migratory success in the experience of poles from Berlin and London

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      Authors: Agnieszka Szczepaniak-Kroll, Anna Szymoszyn
      Abstract: Ethnicities, Ahead of Print.
      This article investigates the issue of migration success achieved by Poles settling in Berlin and London between the 1980s and 2018. We focus on the migration wave that took place after Poland’s accession to the European Union in 2004. We show different ways in which migrants understand their new situation in the light of their integration, daily life, and well-being or satisfaction in the context of migration success. We analyse the similarities and differences of approaches to the new life in London and Berlin explicated by Polish migrants. In doing so, we pay attention to several important characteristics and processes related to the integration of Polish migrants into the metropolitan environments of Western Europe.
      Citation: Ethnicities
      PubDate: 2023-03-15T02:28:22Z
      DOI: 10.1177/14687968231164372
       
  • Economy of marginality and familiarity: Making sense of South Asian
           migrant breakout business in Hong Kong

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      Authors: Kim Kwok, Michael Parzer
      Abstract: Ethnicities, Ahead of Print.
      This article examines an emerging phenomenon within the South Asian economy in Hong Kong: Disadvantaged entrepreneurs, mainly from Pakistan, Nepal and India, have adopted breakout strategies to target other disadvantaged migrants, particularly Indonesian and Filipino foreign domestic workers. This challenges the widely shared assumption that breakout strategies of migrant entrepreneurs address primarily the mainstream population. By applying Erving Goffman’s notion of frame, we focus on how these entrepreneurs understand and interpret their (change of) market orientation in the context of a specific entrepreneurial environment, where power asymmetries exist in the economic and political constellation between the ethnic majority and various groups of migrants. Regarding methodology, semi-structured interviews were conducted, and analyses were done based on 15 business units with 19 migrant entrepreneurs targeting other marginalised migrant groups with whom they share stigmatisation by the ethnic majority. The findings reveal that four frames around “marginality” and “familiarity” play a crucial role in shaping South Asian migrant entrepreneurs’ market orientation and strategies: a) shared experiences of discrimination, b) unwanted locality as resources, c) common culture, and d) race-based affinity and sympathy. These results contribute to the debates by adding a rather neglected form of market orientation to the diversification of migrant entrepreneurial strategies in existing literature, supplementing the economic and social explanations by applying a cultural sociological perspective of social inequality, and critically reviewing the assumption that breakout automatically generates economic success and social mobility.
      Citation: Ethnicities
      PubDate: 2023-03-08T02:27:17Z
      DOI: 10.1177/14687968231162362
       
  • Palestinian and jewish public representatives' attitudes toward violence
           in the Palestinian community in Israel: Conspiracy and cultural violence
           perspectives

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      Authors: Nohad ‘Ali
      Abstract: Ethnicities, Ahead of Print.
      In the last decade, the spread of the violence became one of the most worrying phenomena in the Palestinian Arab community in Israel. This article focuses on the violence where victims and offenders come from Palestinian Arab community in Israel. Its purpose is to review the attitudes of the public figures in the Jewish and the Palestinian Arab communities of the country regarding the violence in the latter community through the lens of the conspiracy and the cultural violence theories. The review shows that some leaders of the Palestinian Arab community tend to refer to the persistence of violence and crime in their community in a cospirative way. Their key claim is that the state authorities intentionally neglect this phenomenon and possibly have some sinister goal behind this way of conduction. In contrast, public representatives of the Jewish community tend to refer to the persistence of violence and crime in Palestinian Arab community in cultural terms. Their key claim is that violence in Palestinian Arab community is deeply rooted in the culture of this community. The review suggests that the attitudes reflect the discourse around the “blaming the victim” concept, whereas representatives of the hegemonic Jewish majority use this tactic in their cultural violence rhetoric, and representatives of the dispossessed Palestinian Arab minority complain against it using the conspiracy beliefs. The review is concluded with broad implications for the Israeli society.
      Citation: Ethnicities
      PubDate: 2023-02-27T05:38:36Z
      DOI: 10.1177/14687968231159103
       
  • Experiences of culture and cultural negotiations among Russian-speaking
           migrants: National habitus and cultural continuity dilemmas in
           child-rearing

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      Authors: Raisa Akifeva, Farida Fozdar, Loretta Baldassar
      Abstract: Ethnicities, Ahead of Print.
      How migrants negotiate and adjust to new cultural settings and how they transmit culture to their children are key questions for migration researchers. This paper explores how culture is experienced and negotiated among Russian-speaking migrants, drawing on interviews and observation data collected in Perth, Australia, and Madrid, Spain, together with online forum data and documents. Analysis reveals that long-term socio-historical processes taking place within the post-Soviet space generate certain similarities among its inhabitants. These shared features, which Norbert Elias (1996) called ‘national habitus’, include internalised dispositions and behavioural patterns evident and reproduced in everyday life, such as hygiene and healthcare practices, norms of conduct in public places, and practices and beliefs related to the control of children’s behaviour and discipline. Many migrants come to realise that they are bearers of these similarities only in the process of the migration experience. This process of recognition of their habitus, including realising the cultural nature of certain standards of behaviour perceived as ‘civilised’ and ‘rational’ in the past, and the making of decisions about what is important to keep and what is not, we refer to as ‘cultural continuity dilemmas’. Participants resolve these dilemmas in three main ways: reinforcing their cultural classification systems through condemnation or attempts to correct; adopting the new standards; or adjusting perceptions to find a compromise. In these processes, certain practices and norms may come to be recognised as Soviet in both positive and negative senses, as being acceptable, or outdated remnants of a totalitarian system. Solving such dilemmas creates a unique combination of practices, forming a common cultural hybridity and generating new awareness of cultural and national identities.
      Citation: Ethnicities
      PubDate: 2023-01-11T11:56:05Z
      DOI: 10.1177/14687968221149167
       
  • A stranger at home' A multilevel analysis of anti-Muslim sentiment in
           Western European societies

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      Authors: Ana Maria Torres Chedraui, Pui-Hang Wong
      Abstract: Ethnicities, Ahead of Print.
      The capability of accommodation policies to create inclusive and cohesive societies for social integration has recently been called into question. Some people worry that accommodation may upset those who disagree about the policy and create a backlash effect. This study examines these issues using the theory of cognitive dissonance and empirically tests whether individuals’ policy preference influences the impact of accommodation of Islam policies on anti-Muslim sentiments. Using survey data from 15 Western European countries, we find that accommodation of Islam policies produce socialising effects on those whose opinions resonate with the policies. However, we do not find statistical evidence of backlash on those whose opinions dissonate with the policies. The findings suggest that accommodation of Islam policies do not radicalise dissonant opinions and are likely to reduce anti-Muslim sentiments among those whose opinions resonate with the policies.
      Citation: Ethnicities
      PubDate: 2023-01-09T01:33:54Z
      DOI: 10.1177/14687968221149030
       
  • Adapting the socio-cultural adaptation scale (SCAS-R) to Arabic: A study
           on the Syrian migrants living in Gaziantep province of Türkiye

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      Authors: Ahmet Keser, Önder Yalçin, Yunus Gökmen
      Abstract: Ethnicities, Ahead of Print.
      This study aims to investigate the validity, reliability, and Arabic language equivalence of the Socio-cultural Adaptation Scale (SCAS-R) created by Colleen Ward and Antony Kennedy (1999) and revised by Jessie Wilson (2013). A sample group of 424 Syrian Migrants (18 years and older) living in Gaziantep province of Türkiye from different neighborhoods, economic status, and socio-demographic backgrounds are included in the research, and the scale is examined via commonly used validity and reliability analysis methods. It is obtained that the Cronbach’s Alpha of the items is higher than 0.7 and the corrected item-total correlations are above the threshold value (0.2) in item analysis, nearly 69% of the total variance is explained by 5 factors in Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA), and the Goodness of Fit Indexes (χ2/sd = 1.521, CFI = 0.958, and SRMR = 0.048) are within the good/acceptable range in Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA). It has been understood that the SCAS-R is a valid and reliable scale for Arabic culture. The results of this study may provide a valuable tool for policymakers, researchers, and humanitarian workers studying migration issues.
      Citation: Ethnicities
      PubDate: 2023-01-03T05:15:32Z
      DOI: 10.1177/14687968221149589
       
  • Harsh punisher or loving mother' A critical discursive psychological
           analysis of Marine Le Pen’s presidential Twitter campaign

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      Authors: Katarina Pettersson, Sofia Payotte, Inari Sakki
      Abstract: Ethnicities, Ahead of Print.
      Marine Le Pen managed to mobilise a substantial share of the votes in the French 2022 presidential elections, ending up second after the winner Emmanuel Macron. This study aims to increase our understanding of the political appeal and mobilisation of women in far-right movements by exploring the identity management strategies Marine Le Pen deployed in her presidential Twitter campaign to construct her position as a female, right-wing populist political leader and rightful president of the nation. A corpus of 701 tweets (published between 4 July 2021 and 10 April 2022) from Le Pen’s official Twitter account were analysed through a critical discursive psychological approach. Through our analyses, we identified five subject positions that Le Pen constructed for herself in her discourse: the Protector, the Punisher, the Women’s Candidate, the Mother, and the Voice of Justice. Our findings show that through careful discursive negotiation between femininity and masculinity, Le Pen managed to engage in a dynamic positioning between a harsh candidate who punishes ‘the Other’ and a compassionate and loving mother candidate who takes care of the nation’s children. This flexible way in which Marine Le Pen claimed different positions for herself may have been a central factor that enabled her to appeal to millions of voters in the 2022 French presidential elections. The study contributes to the literature on identity politics and the discursive mobilisation of gender by female far right political leaders.
      Citation: Ethnicities
      PubDate: 2023-01-02T04:51:57Z
      DOI: 10.1177/14687968221148574
       
 
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