The influence of immigration terminology on attribution and empathy

Hoops, Joshua F.; Braitman, Keli A.

doi:10.1080/17405904.2018.1535989

Cited by 9 publications

(4 citation statements)

References 46 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…A number of studies from developed countries suggest that negatively framed political and social narratives on migration adversely affect citizen attitudes toward international migrants, refugees, and victims of disaster (Gale 2004;Andrighetto et al 2014;Seate and Mastro 2016;Blinder and Allen 2018;Utych 2018;Dempsey and McDowell 2019;Hoops and Braitman 2019;Czymara, 2020). In particular, arguments about host-country duties toward migrants often revolve around characterizations of migration as voluntary or involuntary (Ottonelli and Torresi 2013), with greater presumed host-country duties toward migrants who are seen as less to blame for their own situation.…”

Section: Narratives Beliefs and Attitudes Toward Migrantsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…For affected countries and communities, such large-scale displacements would create not just technical and economic challenges in accommodating the displaced but also social and political challenges in avoiding social tension and conflicts that may arise between displaced persons and their host communities (Hsiang, Burke, and Miguel 2013; Burke, Hsiang, and Miguel 2015). It is, therefore, crucial to understand how receiving-community (hereafter, host-community) attitudes toward internal climate migrants form and evolve and how such attitudes can be influenced to ease resettlement processes and avert tension, an aspect that has received limited attention in climate research so far (Boas et al 2019; Lujala et al 2020).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

See 1 more Smart Citation

Does Changing the Narrative Improve Host Community Attitudes Toward Climate Migrants? Experimental Evidence from Bangladesh

Kolstad

Bezu

Lujala

et al. 2022

International Migration Review

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

A number of studies suggest that prevailing narratives about the situation of the poor and vulnerable affect how they are viewed and treated. Theoretically, a potentially powerful way to make host communities more welcoming of climate migrants is to shift the blame for their situation away from the migrants themselves and onto other forces or agents. We present results from a randomized field experiment conducted among long-term residents of host communities in the Satkhira district of Bangladesh that exposed three treatment groups to narratives that shift responsibility for climate migration toward natural forces, Western countries, and local authorities, respectively. Despite statistical power to detect reasonably small effects, we find no positive effects of these narratives on host-community attitudes toward climate migrants. On the contrary, the local authorities treatment had a borderline negative effect on host-community attitudes. Our results suggest caution in attempting to influence attitudes toward migrants through attribution of blame to outside forces or third parties. Such narrative interventions may shift responsibility away from not just migrants but also the treated host-community residents and increase social identification between host-community members relative to outsiders.

show abstract

Section: Narratives Beliefs and Attitudes Toward Migrantsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Does Changing the Narrative Improve Host Community Attitudes Toward Climate Migrants? Experimental Evidence from Bangladesh

Kolstad

Bezu

Lujala

et al. 2022

International Migration Review

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…Other similar labels include illegal mainland immigrants, illegal Chinese immigrants, and illegal mainland workers. Although expressions such as "illegal immigrants" can be found in today's public discourse (Hoops and Braitman, 2019), it is not commonplace that the word illegal was used to directly modify demonyms, i.e., words identifying people from a particular place, as in the phrase illegal mainlanders. In fact, many have argued that the term illegal immigrants is inappropriate as no human being is illegal, only their actions are (Gabrielatos and Baker, 2008;Hoops and Braitman, 2019).…”

Section: Mainlanders As a Threatmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Although expressions such as "illegal immigrants" can be found in today's public discourse (Hoops and Braitman, 2019), it is not commonplace that the word illegal was used to directly modify demonyms, i.e., words identifying people from a particular place, as in the phrase illegal mainlanders. In fact, many have argued that the term illegal immigrants is inappropriate as no human being is illegal, only their actions are (Gabrielatos and Baker, 2008;Hoops and Braitman, 2019). In this sense, the label illegal mainlanders seems also inappropriate, as it delegitimizes not only those involved in illegal activities, but the whole group of people, i.e., the mainlanders.…”

Section: Mainlanders As a Threatmentioning

confidence: 99%

‘Same, same but different’: representations of Chinese mainland and Hong Kong people in the press in post-1997 Hong Kong

Lin

Chen

Flowerdew

2021

Critical Discourse Studies

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

Rehumanizing the migrant: the translated past as a resource for refashioning the contemporary discourse of the (radical) left

Baker

2020

Palgrave Commun

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

This study examines conceptions of outsiders to the polity, focusing on the lexical items migrant(s), refugee(s), and exile(s) in both internet-and print-based sources. Drawing primarily on a subsection of the Genealogies Internet Corpus consisting of left-wing sources, I argue that left-wing politics is currently caught up in the rhetoric of the right and of mainstream institutions in society, largely reproducing the same discursive patterns even as it sets out to challenge them. Dominant patterns in left-wing Internet sources reveal, for example, that the economic migrant vs. political refugee distinction enforced by mainstream institutions remains largely intact, that the assumption of a "refugee crisis" unfolding in Europe is accepted at face value, and that the left is entangled in the same politics of labeling imposed by the right, reproducing designations such as "undocumented migrants" uncritically. Refugees and migrants, moreover, are represented as victims with no agency, are discussed in legal terms that serve to dehumanize them, and are repeatedly "quantified" as a homogenous and potentially problematic category. Acknowledging the contagious nature of dominant discourses and the difficulty of finding an alternative language with which to argue against established institutional rhetoric, the study further explores historical models that appear more consistent with the values espoused by left-wing politics today. It examines a subcorpus of modern English translations of ancient Greek texts such as Thucydides' The Peloponnesian War and Herodotus's Histories to demonstrate the viability of adopting a different conceptualization of refugees and other outsiders to the polity that may be drawn from classical antiquity-and/or from nineteenth-and early twentieth-century receptions of texts originating in classical antiquity-and the possibility of developing an alternative discourse with which to speak about migrants in the present.

show abstract

The influence of immigration terminology on attribution and empathy

Cited by 9 publications

References 46 publications

Does Changing the Narrative Improve Host Community Attitudes Toward Climate Migrants? Experimental Evidence from Bangladesh

Does Changing the Narrative Improve Host Community Attitudes Toward Climate Migrants? Experimental Evidence from Bangladesh

‘Same, same but different’: representations of Chinese mainland and Hong Kong people in the press in post-1997 Hong Kong

Rehumanizing the migrant: the translated past as a resource for refashioning the contemporary discourse of the (radical) left

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About