Shaping, Masking, and Unmasking of a Stigmatized Identity: The Case of Japan-Residing Koreans

Matsunaga, Masaki

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“…Other studies have shown that individuals who experience racial microaggressions are more likely to exhibit negative mental health symptoms,33 suggesting associations between BME students’ experiences of racism, their mental health and their successive performance. Identity masking, as reported in this study, is a well-known psychological phenomenon34–36 but it has not been studied in relation to BME students in medical education.…”

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Student perspectives on barriers to performance for black and minority ethnic graduate-entry medical students: a qualitative study in a West Midlands medical school

2019

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ObjectiveTo explore graduate-entry medical students experiences of undergraduate training in the context of academic underperformance of medical students from ethnic minority backgrounds.DesignQualitative study using semi-structured focus groups.SettingA West Midlands medical school.Participants24 graduate-entry MBChB students were recruited using volunteer and snowball sampling; all students self-identified as being from Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) backgrounds.ResultsBME students reported facing a range of difficulties, throughout their undergraduate medical training, that they felt impeded their learning and performance. Their relationships with staff and clinicians, though also identified as facilitators to learning, were also perceived to have hindered progress, as many students felt that a lack of BME representation and lack of understanding of cultural differences among staff impacted their experience. Students also reported a lack of trust in the institution’s ability to support BME students, with many not seeking support. Students’ narratives indicated that they had to mask their identity to fit in among their peers and to avoid negative stereotyping. Although rare, students faced overt racism from their peers and from patients. Many students reported feelings of isolation, reduced self-confidence and low self-esteem.ConclusionsBME students in this study reported experiencing relationship issues with other students, academic and clinical staff, lack of trust in the institution and some racist events. Although it is not clear from this small study of one institution whether these findings would be replicated in other institutions, they nevertheless highlight important issues to be considered by the institution concerned and other institutions. These findings suggest that all stakeholders of graduate-entry undergraduate medical education should reflect on the current institutional practices intended to improve student–peer and student–staff relationships. Reviewing current proposals intended to diversify student and staff populations as well as evaluating guidance on tackling racism is likely to be beneficial.

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Student perspectives on barriers to performance for black and minority ethnic graduate-entry medical students: a qualitative study in a West Midlands medical school

2019

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“…While early studies on passing assumed that, where possible, individuals would inevitably choose to abandon the stigmatized identity (Goffman, 1963;Renfrow, 2004), current studies suggest a more diverse and complex picture of the multiple ways of passing and not passing, of becoming ethnic and nonethnic, and of switching between the various options (Khanna and Johnson, 2010;Matsunaga, 2007;Portes and Hao, 2002;Portes et al, 2009;Song, 2003Song, , 2010Storrs, 1999;Waters, 1990).…”

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“…Recent notions of passing offer a more complicated and subtler process involving negotiation between actors that includes definition of the situation (Renfrow, 2004). Contrary to this assumption, research has pointed to a preference for sustaining ethnic identities and acting in keeping with what is perceived as stigmatized, inferior, nonprivileged identity (Khanna and Johnson, 2010; Matsunaga, 2007; Portes et al., 2009; Song, 2003; Storrs, 1999; Waters, 1990) which offers a more complex interpretation of ethnic and racial identity, identification, and perceptions.…”

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“…Even so, studies have shown that individuals may “act ethnic” even when having the “right” nonethnic or White phenotype, either to gain rich culture and group membership (Waters, 1990), or to undermine subordinate, stereotypical, and illegitimate perceptions of the ethnic identity (Storrs, 1999; Fanon, 1968; Steele, 1997; Peterson-Lewis and Bratton, 2004). Moreover, these studies highlight the symbolic (and nonessentialist) character of ethnicity, and as such, emphasize the cultural artifact that is ethnicity, and hence, the process of choosing when and how to “act ethnic” (Matsunaga, 2007).…”

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“…Here, though, I argue that acting according to the ethnic identity characterizes not only Whites seeking their ethnic ancestries and a sense of belonging (Waters, 1990), and not only mixed-race individuals who adopt various ethnic and nonethnic identities (Matsunaga, 2007; Song, 2003), but rather, a process whereby ethnic performance is exaggerated, and individuals, who can pass as nonethnic, accept and internalize another ethnic identity, different from theirs.…”

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This paper examines the process of ''acting ethnic'', and demonstrates that, in certain circumstances, people act in keeping with an ethnic identity. Based on a study of two infantry brigades in the Israeli army (the IDF), the paper shows how organizational ethnic culture forms the basis of the process of ''acting ethnic''. This paper highlights the tendency in certain situations to suspend nonethnic privileges by adopting an ethnic identity and in addition, to exaggerate ethnic performance. Moreover, it is argued that ''acting ethnic'' is a collective performance, aimed not only at belonging to the group, but also as a means of maintaining and reproducing ethnic identity and asserting a legitimate alternative to the hegemonic identity.

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Shaping, Masking, and Unmasking of a Stigmatized Identity: The Case of Japan-Residing Koreans

Cited by 9 publications

References 16 publications

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