Nationalist narratives and anti-Immigrant attitudes: exceptionalism and collective victimhood in contemporary Israel

Feinstein, Yuval; Bonikowski, Bart

doi:10.1080/1369183x.2019.1620596

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“…Surely a number of variables, including some we control for in our regression models, but also some outside the purview of this article, shape the structure of popular nationalism in countries—including other sorts of legacy effects. Beyond collective memories of victimhood or conflict, nationalist imaginaries may draw on narratives of exceptionalism that flow from a deep “belief in the cultural uniqueness, moral superiority, and predestined (for some, divine) mission of the nation” (Feinstein and Bonikowski 2019:749). This is consistent with the narratives and myths associated with Christian nationalism in the United States, in which America is venerated as a redeemer nation whose superiority and imperial ambitions were ordained by God (Whitehead and Perry 2020).…”

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“…This allows us to account for effects of geopolitical threat that are heterogeneous within and across dimensions. Beyond its effects on pride, we expect higher degrees of national trauma will tighten membership criteria (following Hiers et al 2017; see also Feinstein and Bonikowski 2019). Yet, the meaning of these shifts is difficult to fully understand when analyzing dimensions separately.…”

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How Legacies of Geopolitical Trauma Shape Popular Nationalism Today

Soehl

Karim

2021

Am Sociol Rev

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Geopolitical competition and conflict play a central role in canonical accounts of the emergence of nation-states and national identities. Yet work in this tradition has paid little attention to variation in everyday, popular understandings of nationhood. We propose a macro-historical argument to explain cross-national variation in the types of popular nationalism expressed at the individual level. Our analysis builds on recent advances on the measurement of popular nationalism and a recently introduced geopolitical threat scale (Hiers, Soehl, and Wimmer 2017). With the use of latent class analysis and a series of regression models, we show that a turbulent geopolitical past decreases the prevalence of liberal nationalism (pride in institutions, inclusive boundaries) while increasing the prevalence of restrictive nationalism (less pride in institutions, exclusive boundaries) across 43 countries around the world. Additional analyses suggest the long-term development of institutions is a key mediating variable: states with a less traumatic geopolitical history tend to have more established liberal democratic institutions, which in turn foster liberal forms of popular nationalism.

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How Legacies of Geopolitical Trauma Shape Popular Nationalism Today

Soehl

Karim

2021

Am Sociol Rev

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“…For example, memories of historical events were found to predict attitudes toward asylum policies in Israel (Ariely, 2019). Similarly, narratives of Israel's historical events predicted participants' attitudes toward immigrants and immigration policies (Feinstein & Bonikowski, 2019). In addition, results from a case study illustrated that in some contexts, manipulation of collective memories of historical events could serve as a tool to shape people's attitudes toward the government, maintaining the status quo of the government and preventing the public to seek democracy (Belmonte & Rochlitz, 2017).…”

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Relationship of living historical memories and news source with national identity: A latent class analysis

Lin

Maer

2020

Asian J of Social Psycho

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Previous research has suggested that national identity is associated with one's memory of the nation's past (i.e., historical events) and current information received from mass media. This study tied these two areas of research to examine if narratives of historical memory, the valence of those memories, and preferred media use/news sources (traditional vs. digital) would be associated with national identity, trust in government, and system justification. Data were obtained through the Digital Influence II Survey-Hong Kong region. Participants were asked to recall three historical events that had the greatest impact on their country and to report the valence of their evaluation of those events. Using latent class analysis, a two-class structure (superordinate group focus vs. subgroup focus memory) was identified from participants' historical narratives. For participants in the superordinate group focus, valence on the historical memories was positively associated with trust in government, system justification, and national identity. The use of traditional media (over digital media) predicted higher trust in government and system justification, but not national identity. Implications regarding recent protests in Hong Kong, tightening media control, and social movements on social media are discussed.

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“…The more students are exposed to content that encourages an exclusive form of national identification, the less that education is effective at attenuating hostility towards immigrants. With the growing concern about the prominence of nationalistic narratives in school curricula and textbooks across many countries such as Hungary, Japan, Scotland, and the United States (Goldstein, 2020;Feinstein and Bonikowski, 2019;Grever and Van der Vlies, 2017;Morris, Shimazu and Vickers, 2014), my paper suggests that emphasizing a narrower and more exclusive form of national identification is likely to increase outgroup hostility.…”

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“…My paper makes two important contributions. First, it contributes to the long-standing literature on national identity formation and exclusionary attitudes towards immigrants by highlighting the role that education plays in promoting different types of nationalist narratives (Brubaker, 1992;Hiers, Soehl and Wimmer, 2017;Feinstein and Bonikowski, 2019). The more students are exposed to content that encourages an exclusive form of national identification, the less that education is effective at attenuating hostility towards immigrants.…”

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The Impact of Educational Content on Anti-Immigrant Attitudes

Lee¹

2022

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How does education affect attitudes towards immigrants? Shifting the scholarly focus from levels of education to educational content, I argue that the effect of education depends on the type of national identification that educational content promotes. Content that promotes a narrower form of national belonging fosters more negative attitudes towards immigrants because it emphasizes a more exclusive notion of national membership. To test the implications of my theory, I leverage a textbook reform in Taiwan that introduced a new narrative promoting Taiwanese identity based on a common ancestral and historical background. Using a difference-in-differences design that compares academic and vocational paths affected differently by the reform, I find that the consumption of educational content emphasizing a narrower form of national identification induces exclusionary attitudes towards immigrants. The evidence suggests that higher levels of education do not necessarily increase positive attitudes towards outsiders -- it depends on what is taught.

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Nationalist narratives and anti-Immigrant attitudes: exceptionalism and collective victimhood in contemporary Israel

Cited by 32 publications

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How Legacies of Geopolitical Trauma Shape Popular Nationalism Today

How Legacies of Geopolitical Trauma Shape Popular Nationalism Today

Relationship of living historical memories and news source with national identity: A latent class analysis

The Impact of Educational Content on Anti-Immigrant Attitudes

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