Is there assimilation in minority groups' national, ethnic and religious identity?

Platt, Lucinda

doi:10.1080/01419870.2013.808756

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“…First, for analysing minority group acculturation, we utilise comparable scaled measures of both national and ethnic identity that are collected independently and tap into affective but individualised dimensions of identity (Phinney 1992). We are thus able to develop previous literature exploring binary measures of national identity that may be associated with legal citizenship (Manning and Roy 2010;Platt 2014), and capture a more affective component (Reeskens and Wright 2014). We also are able to focus on identity rather than related concepts such as belonging (Burton, Nandi and Platt 2010), as used, for example by Georgiadis and Manning (2013) and Maxwell (2006), or connection to a particular country (Fisher-Neuman 2014).…”

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“…A nascent literature on generational change in identity in the UK suggests that across minority groups the tendency is for national identity to increase with time and generation, while minority identity declines (Georgiadis and Manning 2013;Guveli and Platt 2011;Platt 2014;Karlsen and Nazroo 2013;Manning and Roy 2010).…”

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“…We argue that when people have other secure sources of identification, such as those offered through higher education or occupational status, they may feel less invested in national identities (Nandi and Platt 2012). We also evaluate how far age, sex, immigrant generation (for minorities), and within-UK country of birth (for the majority) influence the extent to which national and ethnic identities are experienced as salient (Bechhofer and McCrone 2012;Georgiadis and Manning 2013;Jaspal and Cinnirella 2013;Maxwell 2006;Platt 2014). We additionally test for the contributory role of experience of harassment among minorities, since feelings of acceptance have been shown to correlate with feelings of belonging (Georgiadis and Manning 2013;Maxwell 2006;Fischer-Neuman 2013; Crul and Schneider 2010); and we address the role of political engagement in contributing to identity expression (Heath et al 2013;Verkuyten and Reijerse 2008).…”

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Patterns of minority and majority identification in a multicultural society

Nandi¹,

Platt²

2015

Ethnic and Racial Studies

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Original citation:Nandi, Alita and Platt, Lucinda (2015) Patterns of minority and majority identification in a multicultural society. Ethnic and Racial Studies, 38 (15 This document is the author's final accepted version of the journal article. There may be differences between this version and the published version. You are advised to consult the publisher's version if you wish to cite from it. 1 Patterns of minority and majority identification in a multicultural societyAlita Nandi and Lucinda Platt * Abstract There has been increasing investigation of the national and ethnic identification of minority populations in Western societies and how far they raise questions about the success or failure of multicultural societies. Much of the political and academic discussion has, however, been premised on two assumptions. First that ethnic minority and national identification are mutually exclusive, and secondly that national identification represents an overarching majority identity, which represents consensus values. In this paper, using a large-scale nationally representative UK survey with a varied set of identity questions, and drawing on an extension of Berry's acculturation framework, we empirically test these two assumptions. We find that, among minorities, strong British national and minority identities often coincide and are not on an opposing axis. We also find that adherence to a British national identity shows cleavages within the White majority population. We further identify variation in these patterns by generation and political orientation.

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Patterns of minority and majority identification in a multicultural society

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2015

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“…For a long time, there was a lack of sociological, theory-driven, and quantitatively based research on this topic. This has started to change during the last decade with a number of quantitative studies on immigrants' social ties, religiosity and identities (Kanas and Van Tubergen, 2009;Kanas et al, 2012;Maliepaard et al, 2010;Maliepaard and Phalet, 2012;Platt 2013;McAndrew and Voas, 2014;Diehl and Koenig, 2013;Leszczensky, 2013). However, cross-nationally comparative research on these issues is still at an early stage, mostly due to a lack of data.…”

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Starting out: New migrants’ socio-cultural integration trajectories in four European destinations

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Migration trends are highly dynamic and the recent period has seen a transformation of migration to Europe. Studies of existing migrant stocks provide only limited information on these new migration flows and their implications for receiving societies. In the Norfacefunded SCIP project ('Socio-cultural integration processes among New Immigrants in Europe'), about 8000 recent migrants to four European destinations were surveyed soon after their arrival with many re-interviewed about 1.5 years later. The goal of the project was to obtain a more complete picture of integration processes in Europe and of the role of individual traits, group characteristics and reception contexts.SCIP data shed light on a dynamic phase in migrants' integration that has important implications for what happens later in the adaptation process. Furthermore, these data reveal the extent to which differences in integration patterns are apparent from the very beginning of migrants' stay or evolve over time. The SCIP project is comparative on the group and country level and thus helps to clarify whether differences in country-specific integration patterns reflect characteristics of host country institutions and ethnic boundaries -or can be attributed to the particularities of the immigrants these countries attract.This special issue demonstrates the potential of the data by bringing together six articles that tackle migrants' early adaptation, for example their language acquisition, the role of religiosity in finding a job, group differences in identification and acculturation, and experiences of discrimination across contexts. It also gives an insight into some limitations of the data set, describes the methodological challenges and possibilities in using it, and aims to inspire further research based on this unique data source.

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“…On the other hand, in recent years, a debate has emerged surrounding the construction of transnational practices by the descendants of migrants, shedding light on issues such as the type of relations these second generations maintain with their ancestors' country of origin (Levitt, 2009;Levitt and Waters 2002) or the way they construct their identities in the transnational space (MasGiralt, 2011;Telles and Ortiz, 2011;Platt, 2014). Furthermore, scientific production on gender, family and transnationalism has developed considerably over the last decade, although this literature has focussed mainly on the study of the reproductive dynamics of transnational families, with special attention being placed on caregiving issues (children left behind, etc.…”

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