Finding Common Ground? Indian Immigrants and Asian American Panethnicity

Schachter, Ariela

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“…They are also over‐represented in the financial and insurance service industries making up 10% of employees in that sector (Department for Work and Pensions, ). In these occupational sectors where Asian employees are well‐represented, we might expect a higher propensity on the part of individual employees to construct and maintain a distinct minority ethnic identity (see Bhatia, ; Schachter, ).…”

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“…Some scholars argue that residential proximity to similar minority groups leads to heightened panethnic identification (Kim & White, ). However, this view is challenged by others who suggest that frequent interactions between similar ethnic groups serves to highlight differences, discouraging panethnic identification (Bhatia, ; Brettell & Reed‐Danahay, ; Joshi, ; Schachter, ).…”

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“…Respondents identified both similarities (Masuoka, ; Portes & Rumbaut, ) and differences (Waters, ) between their Sri Lankan heritage and their Asian identity. Close proximity to other Asians in the ethnically diverse IT and finance sectors may have served to heighten sense of difference (Bhatia, ; Schachter, ), although they also identified commonalities with them. The simultaneous sense of similarity and difference may have led to individuals’ SIM strategies being characterized by movement between superordinate and subordinate levels of ethnic identity (e.g., Asian and Sri Lankan).…”

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Navigating panethnic categorization in the workplace: A study of British Sri Lankan employees

Fernando

Kenny

2018

J Occupat & Organ Psyc

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A wide range of ethnic groups make up labour markets in most advanced economies. However, we lack a nuanced understanding of how specific groups experience minority ethnic identity within the workplace. This article addresses how an under-represented minority ethnic group, British Sri Lankans, experience being assigned a broad Asian panethnic identity in their workplace, which is both positively and negatively stereotyped. Drawing on theories of social identity-based impression management and selfstereotyping, we highlight how individuals responded to panethnic stereotypes imposed on them by both claiming and rejecting a broader Asian identity, and at the same time attempting to carve out a more distinctive British Sri Lankan identity. We advance knowledge of the multi-level nature of ethnic identity, demonstrating ways in which movement between superordinate and subordinate levels of ethnic identity can occur. Counter-intuitively, we suggest that individuals' positive self-stereotyping efforts may, over time, contribute to a more constricted career path that may leave them less prepared for senior management positions. Practitioner pointsTo help facilitate the development of genuinely inclusive organizations and maximize the use of available talent, practitioners need to be vigilant about the prevalence of ethnic group stereotypes in contemporary work settings. Practitioners should not discourage conversations around ethnicity and culture at work, but they should make it clear that the aim is not to encourage the proliferation of group stereotypes. Proliferation of group stereotypes may contribute to unconscious bias.

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Kenny

2018

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“…6 Another example of scholarship that operationalizes intra-group diversity as a cause at the collective level is Okamoto's (2003Okamoto's ( , 2006 focus on the conditions under which panethnic Asian American organizations and other forms of collective action are more or less likely to occur. And yet, as Schachter's (2014a) research on Indian immigrants shows, such identities may not form at the individual level.…”

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“…The meaning and importance of ethnoracial identity is, in part, driven by the different experiences of members in the group. For example, while assimilation generally leads to the development of panethnic identities, Schachter (2014a) found that immigrants from India—who often experience marginalization within the Asian American community—are less likely to identify themselves as Asian or Asian American when they are integrated into communities with large non-Indian, Asian populations.…”

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How Ethnoraciality Matters

2015

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The color line is still a central problem in the United States, as Du Bois declared more than a century ago. But economic, demographic, and social trends have subdivided it in ways that Du Bois could not have foreseen, creating tremendous intra-ethnoracial group diversity. A challenge for twenty-first-century scholarship is to make sense of the implications of growing intra-group diversity for the boundaries and meaning of group identity. Meeting this challenge requires treating intra-group diversity not merely as an outcome of various social processes. Intra-group diversity must also be seen as the origin of processes shaping the boundaries and meanings of group identities, as well as intergroup attitudes and relations. Meeting the challenge also necessitates adopting ethnographic and survey research practices that better capture the dynamism of the multiple color lines defining the American ethnoracial landscape and the implication of this dynamism for identity.

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Racial Revolution: Understanding the Resurgence of Ethnic Minority Identity in Modern China

Francis-Tan

2019

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Finding Common Ground? Indian Immigrants and Asian American Panethnicity

Cited by 21 publications

References 18 publications

Navigating panethnic categorization in the workplace: A study of British Sri Lankan employees

Navigating panethnic categorization in the workplace: A study of British Sri Lankan employees

How Ethnoraciality Matters

Racial Revolution: Understanding the Resurgence of Ethnic Minority Identity in Modern China

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