Ethnic Identity, Psychology of

Liebkind, Karmela; Mähönen, Tuuli Anna; Varjonen, Sirkku; Jasinskaja‐Lahti, Inga

doi:10.1016/b978-0-08-097086-8.24016-6

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“…Instead, Julio described his sense of connection with another culture despite having no ancestral connection. He stated of the culture, “it fits in with who I am… it just really fits in with my identity.” Julio’s narrative reinforces the notion of ethnic identity as a complex interplay of relational, situational, cognitive, and emotional-dialectical components (Katartzi, 2018; Liebkind et al, 2015), instead of simply referring to one’s ancestral heritage.…”

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confidence: 76%

Asian-Canadian trans youth: Identity development in a hetero-cis-normative white world.

Tan¹,

Weisbart²

2022

Psychology of Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity

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Little is known about the lived experiences of youth who belong to both the transgender and Asian communities in Canada. Existing literature on transgender identities tends to discuss identity formation from western perspectives, extrapolating from research with gay or lesbian, White individuals. Similarly, the research literature on developing ethnic minority identities, including Asian identities, tends to assume hetero-cis-normativity; consequently, the narratives and needs of youth with intersecting marginalized gender and ethnic identities tend to be obscured within these dominant and visible perspectives. The present study was an attempt at ameliorating erasure of this population by examining the lived experiences of eight Asian-Canadian transgender youth. Interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA) was utilized from a minority stress theory and intersectionality framework in order to advance understanding of otherwise invisible identities and the oppressive contexts in which marginalization is maintained. Semistructured individual interviews elicited three primary themes: (a) primacy of the experience of gender identity, (b) expression of identity, and (c) dominant scripts and lack thereof. Implications for service providers and future research are discussed, emphasizing the need to look at both "upstream" and "downstream" processes when working with multiply-marginalized populations in order not to privilege any one narrative over another. Public Significance StatementInterviews with eight Asian-Canadian transgender youth highlighted their sense of themselves within a society organized around being heterosexual, cisgender, and White. People designing interventions and research for marginalized individuals should listen carefully to individuals' expressions of their experience, avoiding making decisions based on assumptions or any one identity norm; a focus on how multiple identities intersect allows for services that provide increased safety, respect, and effectiveness.

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Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 76%

Asian-Canadian trans youth: Identity development in a hetero-cis-normative white world.

Tan¹,

Weisbart²

2022

Psychology of Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity

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“…Ethnicity is essentially a hereditary position, unlike most other social groups. A shared cultural legacy, lineage, origin myth, history, country, language or dialect, and symbolic systems tend to determine ethnic group membership (Smelser & Baltes, 2001;Blume, 2013;Liebkind et al, 2015). This index is assumed to be time invariant (change across individual countries while remain constant over time).…”

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confidence: 99%

Ethnic Fractionalization, State Fragility and Economic Growth in Developing Countries: A Case of Sub Saharan Africa (SSA)

Chigeto

2022

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This study was aimed to investigate the link between ethnic fractionalization, state fragility, and economic growth in developing countries. 80 countries (41 from SSA and 39 from HICs) were chosen obtaining panel data spanning the years 2007 to 2020. The relationship between the three variables was estimated using the Seemingly unrelated regression (SUR) approach, with the direct influence of ethnic fractionalization on economic growth assessed first, followed by an estimate of its indirect effect via the transmission channels. The estimated empirical results revealed that ethnic fractionalization had a minimal effect on economic growth in both SSA and high-income countries. In terms of the indirect effects of the two elements on growth, there were mixed results, with some transmission channels putting a negative strain on economic growth and others imposing a positive one. In addition, we fail to confirm the assumption that ethnic fractionalization would have a strong negative impact on growth in countries where state fragility is higher. Thus, we assert that “the conventional wisdom” in the literature about the negative relationship between growth and ethnic variety could not be well-founded and robust, and that further investigation could clear up the impurity in the field.

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“…Nevertheless, like other social identities ethnic identities are always relational and situational (Liebkind, Mähönen, Varjonen and Jasinskaja-Lahti, 2015) and should thus not be regarded as absolute or 'natural' categories (Reicher, 2001).…”

Section: The Construction Of Ethnic Identitymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Social psychological research has shown that individuals can construct for themselves both insider and outsider positions in relation to more than one ethnic group (Liebkind et al, 2015). Individuals may resist ascribed category memberships (Ellemers, Spears and Doosje, 2002) and/or insist on self-recognized self-definitions not accepted by others (e.g.…”

Section: The Construction Of Ethnic Identitymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This belief is, thus, what distinguishes ethnic identity from other social identities, that is, our sense of who we are based on our group memberships such as class or gender (Tajfel, 1978; Tajfel and Turner, 1979). Nevertheless, like other social identities, ethnic identities are always relational and situational (Liebkind et al, 2015) and should thus not be regarded as absolute or ‘natural’ categories (Reicher, 2001).…”

Section: The Construction Of Ethnic Identitymentioning

confidence: 99%

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‘You who are an immigrant – why are you in the Sweden Democrats?’

Pettersson

Liebkind

Sakki

2016

Discourse & Society

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Individuals with immigrant or other ethnic minority background have begun to find their political home in the populist radical right and anti-immigration party the Sweden Democrats. The present study delves into this paradoxical matter by exploring how these politicians discursively account for their ethnic minority belonging in relation to their anti-immigration political affiliation. The critical discursive psychological analysis of blog entries by populist radical right politicians with immigrant or other ethnic minority background shows that their ethnic identity negotiations were highly complex and multifaceted. Typically, an ethnic minority identity was accepted at a superficial, assigned level, whereas a Swedish identity was actively claimed at a level of personal assertion. The paper analyses the discursive resources that the bloggers drew upon in order to construct and negotiate their ethnic identities and motivate their political choices. Finally, it elaborates on the discursive functions of the subject positions that these negotiations accomplished: dividing between 'good' and 'bad' immigrants, denying the existence of structural discrimination, reversing the racist label and attaching it to the political opponents of the Sweden Democrats, and providing 'proof' of the party having rid itself of its racist past.

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Ethnic Identity, Psychology of

Cited by 7 publications

References 19 publications

Asian-Canadian trans youth: Identity development in a hetero-cis-normative white world.

Asian-Canadian trans youth: Identity development in a hetero-cis-normative white world.

Ethnic Fractionalization, State Fragility and Economic Growth in Developing Countries: A Case of Sub Saharan Africa (SSA)

‘You who are an immigrant – why are you in the Sweden Democrats?’

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