Social markers of acceptance are socially constructed indicators of adaptation (e.g., language skills or adherence to social norms) that recipient nationals use in deciding whether to view an immigrant as a host community member. This study had two objectives: (a) to distill the markers considered important by Japanese undergraduates to accept immigrants in Japanese society and (b) to test the premises of integrated threat and social identity theories by ascertaining the effects on marker endorsement of perceived immigrant threat, contribution, relative social status, and intergroup permeability. Native‐born Japanese (the term “native‐born Japanese” is used throughout this article to refer to people born as Japanese citizens—differentiating them from immigrants who are Japanese citizens naturalized after birth) from 12 Japanese universities (N = 428) completed an online survey. Marker importance ratings were factor‐analyzed, and three latent dimensions were found representing sociolinguistic, ethnic, and socioeconomic markers. Multiple hierarchical regressions discerned the main effects of immigrants’ perceived threat and contribution on social markers as well as their interactions with intergroup permeability and immigrant relative status. The results underscored perceived threat’s consistent role in increasing marker importance and suggested divergent paths to acceptance: Immigrants perceived as “low‐status” were expected to conform to sociolinguistic and ethnic markers, whereas socioeconomic markers were stressed more for “high‐status” immigrants when perceived immigrant threat increased and intergroup boundaries were considered less permeable.

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构建谁可以成为日本人：日本接受度的社会标志研究

接受的社会标志是社会建构的适应性指标（例如，语言技能或遵守社会规范），接受国国民在决定是否将移民视为接纳社区成员时使用。这项研究有两个目标：（a）提取日本大学生认为重要的标记来接受日本社会的移民；（b）通过确定对感知到的移民威胁的标记认可的影响，来测试综合威胁和社会身份理论的前提，贡献，相对社会地位和群体间通透性。在日本的12所大学中，以母语为母语的日语（“母语为日语”一词在本文中始终指的是作为日本公民出生的人，与出生后归化的日本公民的移民有所区别）。N  = 428）完成了在线调查。对标记重要性等级进行了因子分析，发现了三个潜在维度，分别代表社会语言，种族和社会经济标记。多元层次回归分析可以看出移民感知到的威胁和贡献对社会标志物的主要影响，以及他们与群体间通透性和移民相对地位的相互作用。结果强调了感知威胁在提高标记重要性方面的一贯作用，并提出了不同的接受途径：被认为“低状态”移民符合社会语言和种族标记，而“高状态”移民则更强调社会经济标记人们意识到移民威胁的增加，而群体间的边界则被认为渗透性较低。