Disentangling the Causal Relations of Perceived Group Threat and Outgroup Derogation: Cross-national Evidence from German and Russian Panel Surveys

Schlueter, Elmar; Schmidt, Péter; Wagner, Ulrich

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“…Finally, the third model postulated causal effects only from German identification to German language proficiency (Model 3 -the national identity model). We ran each model without and with control variables to test the robustness of our findings (Schlüter et al, 2008). The results with respect to our hypotheses were essentially the same (see Appendix 2 for summary of results with controls).…”

Section: German Proficiency and German Identification To Influence Eamentioning

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“…The advantage of starting with this model is that the two alternative models tested are restricted versions of this model and are thus nested within it (Schlüter et al, 2008). As demonstrated in Table 1, the reciprocal model fit the data well.…”

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“…5 As is often the case, even though the German society is constantly concerned with the stagnation in the cultural integration of immigrants, studies suggest that it has improved over years and generations (Diehl and Schnell, 2006;Kristen and Dollmann, 2010) German Socioeconomic Panel (SOEP; Wagner, Frick and Schupp, 2007) and an autoregressive cross-lagged (ARCL) structural equation model (Finkel, 1995;Schlüter, Schmidt and Wagner, 2008). In the next section we present the theoretical framework of this study.…”

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“…Their arrival can be divided into six waves (Münz and Ulrich, 1997 from East Germany and the former communist bloc, arriving in Germany during the late 1980s and the early 1990s (Münz and Ulrich, 2003). 4 While the legal status of immigrants in the united Germany was revised and regulated by the end of the 1990s, their integration remains a central issue, both on the political and public agenda as well as in the social sciences (Davidov and Weick, 2011;Luther, 2013;Raijman, Semyonov and Schmidt, 2003;Schlüter, Schmidt and Wagner, 2008). In recent years, the topic has regained dominance in both the public and academic spheres, as it became clear that inequality between native Germans and immigrants of the first generation persists into the second immigrant generation (Biedinger, Becker and Rohling, 2008;Constant and Massey, 2005;Diehl and Koenig, 2009;Kalter and Granato, 2001;Kristen and Dollmann, 2010).…”

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Relations between Second-Language Proficiency and National Identification: The Case of Immigrants in Germany

Hochman

Davidov

2014

European Sociological Review

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This paper discusses and empirically tests the relations between language proficiency and national identification with Germany among first generation immigrants in Germany. It presents three theoretical arguments: (1) language proficiency positively affects national identification; and contrastingly (2) national identification positively influences language proficiency; and (3) there is a reciprocal relationship between both constructs. To test these potentially contradictory claims empirically, we utilize data on first generation immigrants in Germany measured in four waves (1997, 1999, 2001 and 2003) from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) study. Language proficiency is operationalized with the variable proficiency in German language. Hypotheses are tested using autoregressive cross-lagged structural equation models. Findings demonstrate an effect of language proficiency on national identification among immigrants in Germany. However, data provide no support for an effect in the other direction.

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Relations between Second-Language Proficiency and National Identification: The Case of Immigrants in Germany

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Davidov

2014

European Sociological Review

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“…Such crosssectional survey research cannot exclude reverse causality. Experimental research, in turn, addresses these critiques by manipulating threat perceptions in various ways (see also Schlueter, Schmidt, & Wagner, 2008, for longitudinal evidence). Many studies use fictitious newspaper articles, editorials, research findings or policy framings to manipulate threat perceptions, thereby simulating dissemination of threat-based arguments in the media and the public sphere (e.g., Esses et al, 1998;Falomir-Pichastor et al, 2004;Pratto & Lemieux, 2001).…”

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Migration and Multiculturalism

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Staerklé²

2013

Oxford Handbooks Online

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"Multiculturalism has utterly failed", German Chancellor Angela Merkel declared inOctober 2010, "immigrants need to do more to integrate in German society". A few months later, in February 2011, British Prime Minister David Cameron also condemned his country's long-standing policy of multiculturalism as a failure, claiming that many young British Muslims were drawn to violent ideology because they found no strong collective identity in Britain. These two quotes from leading European politicians exemplify how migration and multiculturalism have become key issues in contemporary societies. Virtually all countries in the world need to deal with the steady flow of people crossing international borders that have made societies in our globalized world more and more diverse. Despite its contested nature as a normative model for organizing diversity in receiving societies, multiculturalism has become an inescapable reality to which countries need to adapt.This chapter is concerned with two major questions concerning migration and multiculturalism. First, it looks at the social and psychological processes at work in the migrant experience. Second, it deals with how members of receiving societies react to the increased and diversified immigrant presence in their societies. 1 Our review draws mainly upon research and theory in political and social psychology. Reflecting the diversity of classic and recent empirical work on migration and multiculturalism, we present research covering a Migration and multiculturalism 2 wide range of methodological approaches, including survey, experimental and qualitative studies. The chapter emphasizes how historical and political contexts affect the nature of intergroup relations between migrant groups and receiving societies. It furthermore highlights the role of widely shared social representations in processes of migration and multiculturalism, expressed in ideological belief systems, political discourse and everyday cultural repertoires. We argue that a political psychology perspective to migration and multiculturalism will gain from taking a interdisciplinary approach in which different levels of analysis-including individual, group and societal factors-are combined and articulated (Castles & Miller, 2009;Chryssochoou, 2004;Deaux, 2006;Verkuyten, 2005a).The chapter is organized in four parts. The first part outlines some historical benchmarks of modern migration and briefly presents two key notions of a psychological approach to migration-assimilation and multiculturalism-in their historical context. In a second part, we summarize empirical research that focuses on the psychological dynamics involved in the migrant experience, in particular the interactionist and complex nature of migrant identities, acculturation and adaptation in receiving societies, and intergroup approaches to acculturation and multiculturalism. The third part analyses the role of threat regarding immigrants and immigration in the reactions, attitudes and beliefs of majority populations in receiving societies. The...

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Combined Effects of Intergroup Contact and Multiple Categorization

Schmid

Hewstone

2010

The Psychology of Social and Cultural Diversity

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As societies are growing ever more ethnically, racially and religiously diverse, recurrent questions are being asked as to whether such increased diversity fosters or hinders positive intergroup relations. One long-established social-scientific perspective on ethnic, racial or religious diversity argues that it poses a threat, particularly (but not exclusively) to the majority group, and thus inevitably leads to heightened intergroup tensions and prejudice (e.g., Blalock, 1967; see more recently, Putnam, 2007). A more recent, and somewhat more optimistic view on the consequences of such diversity can, however, be found in social psychological thinking. In this chapter, we draw upon two key social psychological approaches to improving intergroup relations and reducing prejudice: intergroup contact and self-categorization, in particular, multiple categorization. We do so with particular reference to ethnic, racial or religious diversity, by discussing specifically how both these approaches, in isolation or in combination, are centrally important to understanding how exposure to diversity at the macro-level, such as in residential or educational settings, may positively affect intergroup attitudes.This chapter is organized into four main sections. In part one, we describe the theoretical background to intergroup contact approaches, The Psychology of Social and Cultural DiversityEdited by Richard J. Crisp

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Disentangling the Causal Relations of Perceived Group Threat and Outgroup Derogation: Cross-national Evidence from German and Russian Panel Surveys

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Relations between Second-Language Proficiency and National Identification: The Case of Immigrants in Germany

Relations between Second-Language Proficiency and National Identification: The Case of Immigrants in Germany

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