A Struggle over Religious Rights? How Muslim Immigrants and Christian Natives View the Accommodation of Religion in Six European Countries

Carol, Sarah; Helbling, Marc; Michalowski, Ines

doi:10.1093/sf/sov054

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“…These findings are in line with other studies showing translation differences in the UK's questionnaire of the Eurislam project (e.g. Carol, Helbling, & Michalowski, 2015). Nevertheless, when the data from the UK was analyzed separately, similar results to those obtained in the current results sections were found.…”

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Immigrants’ behavioral participation and its relation with national identification: Perceived closeness to the prototype as a psychological mechanism

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2019

Self and Identity

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This study investigates the psychological processes by which national language usage predicts immigrants' national identification. We proposed that national language usage, as a key aspect of behavioral participation, signals to immigrants their closeness to fitting the national prototype (operationalized as perceived similarities with receiving country and acceptance as national co-member). This in turn fosters stronger national identification. Additionally, we tested whether perceived language competence strengthens the link between language usage and closeness to the prototype. The hypotheses were tested using a cross-national survey (N = 3794) of Muslim migrants in Belgium, Germany and Switzerland. The results (using structural equation modeling) generally supported the predictions, offering evidence for the psychological mechanisms by which behavioral participation encourages identification with new groups. ARTICLE HISTORY

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Immigrants’ behavioral participation and its relation with national identification: Perceived closeness to the prototype as a psychological mechanism

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2019

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“…On the basis of size, Muslims—constituting <1% of the population by most accounts (Djupe and Green 2007)—should not be terribly important to Americans’ political judgments. However, the 9/11 terrorist attacks and the events that have followed have made Muslims especially salient in Western societies (Carol, Helbling, and Michalowski 2015). The responsibility of Islamic extremists for the attacks, the constant involvement of the U.S. military in the predominantly Muslim Middle East, the presence of “homeland security” policies that, to some extent, allow targeting of Arabs and Muslims, the fact that more recent incidents of domestic terrorism have involved Muslims, and the near-daily revelations of international terrorist activities by Islamic extremists all have contributed to an unrelenting and overwhelmingly negative media spotlight on Islam and Muslims since 2001.…”

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Will Americans Vote for Muslims? Cultural Outgroup Antipathy, Candidate Religion, and U.S. Voting Behavior

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2018

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We assess how likely Americans are to support political candidates who are Muslim, and the extent to which support for Muslim candidates is structured by “cultural outgroup antipathy”—generalized antipathy targeting cultural outgroups. We employ two survey experiments included in the 2007 and 2010 Cooperative Congressional Election Studies that juxtapose a hypothetical state legislative candidate's Muslim faith with Arab ethnicity, African American race, and both Democratic and Republican party affiliation. Identifying a candidate as Muslim significantly reduces voter support and that reduction is largest among people with higher levels of cultural outgroup antipathy. The effect is consistent regardless of whether the candidate is also identified as being Arab or African American or is just presented as a Muslim. We also find that cultural outgroup antipathy diminished electoral support for same-party Muslim candidates among Democrats but not among Republicans.

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“…Multiple studies have shown that policies can affect immigrants' integration (e.g. Goodman/Wright 2015), religiosity (Ersanilli/Koopmans 2011;Carol et al 2015), union formation (Hamel et al 2012;Carol et al 2014), and fertility patterns (Andersson/Scott 2005;Milewski 2007). Moreover, in line with theories on political socialisation through school, work or the media (Almond/Verba 1989) we expect to fi nd that the societal climate (e.g.…”

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Attitudes toward Abortion for Medical and Non-medical Reasons among the Turkish Second Generation in Europe – The Role of the Family and Societal Contexts

Milewski

Carol

2019

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This paper studies attitudes toward abortion among the second generation of Turkish migrants and their native counterparts in six western and northern European countries. We focus on Turkish migrants because they not only constitute one of the largest immigrant groups, but are also hypothesised to be culturally and demographically very distinctive from the native group. We used data from the project on “The Integration of the European Second Generation (TIES 2007-08)” from Austria, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden and Switzerland. The sample consisted of 4,761 respondents aged 18 to 35, 49.5 percent of whom were children of Turkish migrants born in Europe and 51.5 percent belonged to the respective non-migrant comparison groups. Unlike in other surveys, the question regarding attitudes toward abortion in the TIES questionnaire distinguished between “medical” and “non-medical” reasons for abortion, with the possible answers being “never”, “in specific cases” and “always”. We carried out multinomial logistic regression analyses and investigated three research questions: 1) Departing from assimilation theory, we examined whether the attitudes of migrant descendants differed from those of their non-migrant counterparts. Our results show that both groupings under study expressed a range of attitudes, and that abortion for medical reasons was more accepted than abortion for non-medical reasons. However, second-generation Turks were more likely than the natives to say that they would never accept abortion. 2) We investigated the extent to which the societal climate and the integration context of the respondents influenced their attitudes toward abortion, while assuming that we would find cross-country variation in these attitudes. Our results reveal that among natives, levels of acceptance of abortion are lowest in Germany and highest in Sweden and France. We found a similar country pattern for women and men of the second Turkish generation. 3) We explored the degree to which the respondents’ family contexts (childhood backgrounds as well as current socio-demographic variables) influenced their attitudes toward abortion. While these factors partially explained the variation within the Turkish second generation and within the native comparison group, the country differences remained significant. We conclude that attitudes toward abortion in the Turkish second generation are influenced by their family backgrounds, but also by their socialization experiences in European receiving countries. These findings suggest that cultural assimilation processes are occurring, but not to the point where the attitudes of migrant descendants have converged with the attitudes of natives in the respective destination country. * This article belongs to a special issue on migrant fertility.

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A Struggle over Religious Rights? How Muslim Immigrants and Christian Natives View the Accommodation of Religion in Six European Countries

Cited by 59 publications

References 36 publications

Immigrants’ behavioral participation and its relation with national identification: Perceived closeness to the prototype as a psychological mechanism

Immigrants’ behavioral participation and its relation with national identification: Perceived closeness to the prototype as a psychological mechanism

Will Americans Vote for Muslims? Cultural Outgroup Antipathy, Candidate Religion, and U.S. Voting Behavior

Attitudes toward Abortion for Medical and Non-medical Reasons among the Turkish Second Generation in Europe – The Role of the Family and Societal Contexts

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