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Doing style for Saraswati Puja: Girlhood, Class, and Community Identity among Muslim girls in Assam Ethnicities (IF 1.555) Pub Date : 2024-01-25 Nirmali Goswami, Navarupa Bhuyan
Saraswati Puja, a celebration of the Hindu goddess of learning, is organised by youth clubs and educational institutions in eastern India. We draw on debates on girlhood, codes of respectable femininity in a neoliberal world, and how these play out for Muslim girls in the school context. These ideas frame our analysis of the dressing up practice among Muslim girls in a government school. We argue that
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Negotiating between gender, national and professional identities: The work-experience of israeli-palestinian women journalists Ethnicities (IF 1.555) Pub Date : 2023-05-05 Einat Lachover
This paper analyzes the work experience of Israeli-Palestinian women journalists who reside and work in Israel for local news organizations or non-Israeli news agencies. It focuses on their experie...
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Greening self-government? incorporation of environmental justifications into sub-state nationalist claim making in Spain Ethnicities (IF 1.555) Pub Date : 2023-05-03 Stephanie Kerr
Regional nationalism in Spain – particularly those movements in Catalonia and the Basque Country – have been characterized at the parliamentary level by political parties from both the traditional ...
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Race as injustice and the im/possibility of racial justice Ethnicities (IF 1.555) Pub Date : 2023-04-21 Brett St Louis
This review essay presents exposition and analysis of Nasar Meer’s, The Cruel Optimism of Racial Justice. I outline Meer’s argument detailing the historical emergence and ongoing social reproductio...
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Critical Tiriti Analysis: A prospective policy making tool from Aotearoa New Zealand Ethnicities (IF 1.555) Pub Date : 2023-04-18 Heather Came, Dominic O’Sullivan, Jacquie Kidd, Tim McCreanor
Restrictions on Indigenous peoples’ contributions to policymaking pervade post-settler societies like Australia, Canada and Aotearoa. Such effects are observed in spite of agreements like Te Tiriti...
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The everyday dimensions of stigma. Morofobia in everyday life of daughters of Maghrebi-Spanish couples in Granada and Barcelona (Spain) Ethnicities (IF 1.555) Pub Date : 2023-04-15 Cristina Rodríguez-Reche, Francesco Cerchiaro
Negative attitudes towards Muslim minorities are an increasingly common phenomenon in many European countries. This stigma is often associated with religious discrimination; on others, it has a mor...
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Evoking the resemblance: Descriptive representation of ethnic minorities Ethnicities (IF 1.555) Pub Date : 2023-03-22 Jelena Lončar
The constructivist approach to political representation has shown that descriptive representation cannot be reduced to passive presence. Descriptive representatives rather actively contribute to th...
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Cultural diversity and an ethics of provenance Ethnicities (IF 1.555) Pub Date : 2023-03-20 Patrick Savidan
This paper intends first to try and interpret the evolution of attitudes towards solidarity in France in the light of Kymlicka’s analysis of membership-based deservingness judgment. It suggests tha...
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Migratory success in the experience of poles from Berlin and London Ethnicities (IF 1.555) Pub Date : 2023-03-15 Agnieszka Szczepaniak-Kroll, Anna Szymoszyn
This article investigates the issue of migration success achieved by Poles settling in Berlin and London between the 1980s and 2018. We focus on the migration wave that took place after Poland’s ac...
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Governing diversity in the multilevel European public space Ethnicities (IF 1.555) Pub Date : 2023-03-15 John Erik Fossum, Riva Kastoryano, Tariq Modood, Ricard Zapata-Barrero
The issue of working out a viable relationship between accepting and/or living with diversity on the one hand and fostering integration on the other has occupied public debates, political agendas, ...
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‘Guru Rinpoche is Śivajī’: Ethnicity and ethnic boundary drift in Nepal’s ethnic art Ethnicities (IF 1.555) Pub Date : 2023-03-14 Jingwei Li
This paper argues that ethnic paintings connotate situational ethnicity, adjusted by social change and ethnic boundaries. Based on anthropological fieldwork focusing on painter and mercantile commu...
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Palestinian and jewish public representatives' attitudes toward violence in the Palestinian community in Israel: Conspiracy and cultural violence perspectives Ethnicities (IF 1.555) Pub Date : 2023-02-26 Nohad ‘Ali
In the last decade, the spread of the violence became one of the most worrying phenomena in the Palestinian Arab community in Israel. This article focuses on the violence where victims and offender...
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Rethinking liberal multiculturalism: Foundations, practices and methodologies Ethnicities (IF 1.555) Pub Date : 2023-01-16 François Boucher, Sophie Guérard de Latour, Esma Baycan-Herzog
The article introduces a special issue on “Rethinking Liberal Multiculturalism: Foundations, Practices and Methodologies.” The contributions presented in this special issue were discussed during th...
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Two grounds of multiculturalism Ethnicities (IF 1.555) Pub Date : 2023-01-13 Helder De Schutter
Will Kymlicka has grounded group-differentiated rights for nationalcultural groups in the values of freedom and autonomy. An alternative moral foundation for such rights is dignity. In this contrib...
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Experiences of culture and cultural negotiations among Russian-speaking migrants: National habitus and cultural continuity dilemmas in child-rearing Ethnicities (IF 1.555) Pub Date : 2023-01-11 Raisa Akifeva, Farida Fozdar, Loretta Baldassar
How migrants negotiate and adjust to new cultural settings and how they transmit culture to their children are key questions for migration researchers. This paper explores how culture is experience...
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For a political conception of multicultural citizenship Ethnicities (IF 1.555) Pub Date : 2023-01-10 Matteo Gianni
Multicultural citizenship has provided a terrific liberal philosophical framework to justify respect for cultural minorities and their fair accommodation in contexts marked by cultural disadvantage...
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A stranger at home? A multilevel analysis of anti-Muslim sentiment in Western European societies Ethnicities (IF 1.555) Pub Date : 2023-01-09 Ana Maria Torres Chedraui, Pui-Hang Wong
The capability of accommodation policies to create inclusive and cohesive societies for social integration has recently been called into question. Some people worry that accommodation may upset tho...
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Pandemic nationalisms Ethnicities (IF 1.555) Pub Date : 2023-01-07 Anna Triandafyllidou
This paper examines how the pandemic emergency as a global challenge – the first of its kind since WWII – has activated what I call a ‘pandemic nationalism’ that was simultaneously both inclusionar...
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A targeted approach to multiculturalism: The case of the roma minority in europe Ethnicities (IF 1.555) Pub Date : 2023-01-04 Sophie Guérard de Latour
The article assesses Will Kymlicka’s targeted approach to cultural rights by focusing on the case of the Roma minority in Europe. In Multicultural Odysseys, Kymlicka praises the European management...
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Towards a theory of reparative multiculturalism Ethnicities (IF 1.555) Pub Date : 2023-01-03 Felix Lambrecht
Contemporary liberal states must provide an answer to the “question of cultural diversity”, requiring a principled way to determine which minority cultural practices a state must accommodate and su...
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Adapting the socio-cultural adaptation scale (SCAS-R) to Arabic: A study on the Syrian migrants living in Gaziantep province of Türkiye Ethnicities (IF 1.555) Pub Date : 2023-01-03 Ahmet Keser, Önder Yalçin, Yunus Gökmen
This study aims to investigate the validity, reliability, and Arabic language equivalence of the Socio-cultural Adaptation Scale (SCAS-R) created by Colleen Ward and Antony Kennedy (1999) and revis...
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Harsh punisher or loving mother? A critical discursive psychological analysis of Marine Le Pen’s presidential Twitter campaign Ethnicities (IF 1.555) Pub Date : 2023-01-02 Katarina Pettersson, Sofia Payotte, Inari Sakki
Marine Le Pen managed to mobilise a substantial share of the votes in the French 2022 presidential elections, ending up second after the winner Emmanuel Macron. This study aims to increase our unde...
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Future citizens between interest and ability: A systematic literature review of the naturalization and crimmigration scholarship Ethnicities (IF 1.555) Pub Date : 2022-12-03 Hannah Bliersbach
The determinants of whether or not an immigrant seeks to become a citizen are still largely invisible to scholars; as are the decisions made during the naturalization process by street-level bureau...
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Health inspector ratings of Asian restaurants during the early COVID-19 pandemic Ethnicities (IF 1.555) Pub Date : 2022-11-29 Hua-Yu Sebastian Cherng, Martha Moreno, Jia-Lin Liu
The COVID-19 pandemic has devastated the restaurant industry, with Asian restaurants having perhaps suffered the most, as many reported business losses well before shelter-in-place orders were anno...
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Ethnic prejudices and public support for anti-discrimination policies on the housing market Ethnicities (IF 1.555) Pub Date : 2022-11-29 Pieter-Paul Verhaeghe, Billie Martiniello, Dounia Bourabain
Notwithstanding persistent levels of ethnic discrimination on the rental housing market, we have witnessed in many West-European countries a shift from targeted multicultural to colour-blind polici...
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Indian intervention in ethnic movement of Nepal: Did Madheshi loose or gain? Ethnicities (IF 1.555) Pub Date : 2022-11-16 Hari Har Jnawali
This paper examines the impact of Indian intervention on the Madheshi parties’ claim to self-determination in Nepal. In 2007, the Madheshi parties launched mass protests, demanding the recognition ...
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Everyday nationhood, diversity and talking about Canada Ethnicities (IF 1.555) Pub Date : 2022-11-02 Yesim Bayar
This article explores ordinary individuals’ understandings of nationhood. In so doing, it focuses on the case of Armenian migrants from Turkey to Canada and their conceptualizations of the host cou...
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“Complexities of belonging: Compounded foreignness and racial cover among undocumented Central American youth” Ethnicities (IF 1.555) Pub Date : 2022-10-15 Arely Zimmerman, Joanna Perez, Leisy J Abrego
Legally excluded from the state through their status, undocumented Central Americans must also navigate belonging in social movement spaces that do not center their cultural experiences. Drawing on...
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A stigmatized minority identity and a paralyzed majority identity: Young people negotiating group boundaries within a super-diverse context Ethnicities (IF 1.555) Pub Date : 2022-10-11 Ariadne Driezen, Noel Clycq, Gert Verschraegen
In this paper, we aim to study how young people navigate a super-diverse majority-minority context, and how they negotiate bright religious and ethnic symbolic boundaries. Our study is based on 40 ...
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“Were you treated differently because you wore the hijab?”: Everyday Islamophobia, racialization and young Turks in Britain Ethnicities (IF 1.555) Pub Date : 2022-09-30 Muhammed Babacan
Numerous studies suggest that British society is becoming more Islamophobic, and Muslims, especially youth, in Britain have been its victims. But while there is growing evidence of how they have be...
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Avoiding backlash: Narratives and strategies for anti-racist activism in Mexico Ethnicities (IF 1.555) Pub Date : 2022-09-19 René Alejandro Rejón Piña
Structural race-based inequalities in Mexico cannot be denied. Anthropologists and social scientists have thoroughly documented racism at both personal and systemic levels. Following I.M. Young’s f...
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Nascent narratives of Armenian remembrance: The Armenian genocide reflected in the Armenian-American press Ethnicities (IF 1.555) Pub Date : 2022-08-15 Karina Diłanian-Pinkowicz
This article explores the cultural memory of the Armenian genocide archived, to a major extent, in non-digitized form. In the initial decades following the genocide, the memory of the crimes commit...
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Emerging discourses on education and motherhood with Roma women Ethnicities (IF 1.555) Pub Date : 2022-08-10 Alicia Ferrández-Ferrer, María-José Sanchís-Ramón, Daniel La Parra-Casado
Previous research has highlighted different factors that limit educational success and continuity in Roma children and young adults, outlining both those linked to cultural identity and those deriv...
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Immortality of the soul in classical western thought and in Igbo-African ontology: A discourse in existential metaphysics Ethnicities (IF 1.555) Pub Date : 2022-08-08 Nelson U Ukwamedua
In Orphism, through Pythagoras to Plato, the soul survives the death of the body. But for Aristotle it is the form of the body, and this makes its immortality unlikely, since form cannot exist with...
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Moral economy and deservingness in immigration policies. The case of regularisations in Italy Ethnicities (IF 1.555) Pub Date : 2022-08-03 Maurizio Ambrosini
This paper has two purposes. The first is theoretical: to revise use of the concept of moral economy in migration studies, and the related concept of deservingness. I will identify different versio...
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Religion, secularity, culture? Investigating Christian privilege in Western Europe Ethnicities (IF 1.555) Pub Date : 2022-06-06 A Sophie Lauwers
Scholarship on religious inequality in Europe has focused mainly on the position of religious minorities, primarily Jews and Muslims. Investigations into Islamophobia, antisemitism, and other forms...
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The episteme(s) around Roma historiography: Genealogical fantasy reexamined Ethnicities (IF 1.555) Pub Date : 2022-05-20 Avishek Ray
Since the 18th century, scholars have been claiming that Romani people originated from India. Folkloristists, ethnographers, linguists and demographers alike have sought to identify, classify and c...
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Memory and trauma in the Kurdistan genocide Ethnicities (IF 1.555) Pub Date : 2022-05-18 Kurdistan Omar Muhammad, Hawre Hasan Hama, Hersh Abdallah Hama Karim
Memory and trauma are often considered to be interconnected social phenomena. Collective memory exists in every society, but when a particularly catastrophic event occurs, it leaves an impact on be...
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Debunking mainstream anti-racism in the Spanish context: “Anti-rumour” strategies as a case of psychology-based anti-racism Ethnicities (IF 1.555) Pub Date : 2022-05-17 Luca Sebastiani
Racism is hardly discussed in Spanish public debates: however, when approached through policy, it is generally understood either as violent acts committed by extremists, or as a matter of stereotyp...
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Symbolic identity building, ethnic nationalism and the linguistic reconfiguration of the urban spaces of the capital of Pristina, Kosovo Ethnicities (IF 1.555) Pub Date : 2022-05-12 Uranela Demaj
This paper presents a historical study of the linguistic landscape (LL) of Pristina’s city center as an important site of contestation and competing symbolic identity constructions throughout Kosovo’s turbulent interethnic past. By means of historical linguistic evidence of the LL configuration of landmark establishments in the central promenade of the city, the paper illustrates the role of language
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The influence of education, economy and religion domains in enhancing ethnic unity among Malaysian youths Ethnicities (IF 1.555) Pub Date : 2022-05-10 Wan Norhasniah Wan Husin, Nur Kamilia Izzati Samsudin, Noor Azmi Zainol, Nani Noor Hidayah Nordin, Wan Kamal Mujani
The objectives of this study are to quantitatively analyse the influence of education, economy and religious domains on enhancing ethnic unity among youth in Malaysia with reference to university students. It involved a survey of 373 students from two Malaysian public universities, namely Universiti Malaya and the National Defence University of Malaysia. The obtained data are subjected to descriptive
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‘Land’ as a site of contestation: Empire, identity, and belonging in the Darjeeling Himalayas Ethnicities (IF 1.555) Pub Date : 2022-05-13 Sangay Tamang, Ngamjahao Kipgen
As the dominant narratives of ethnicity have been centered on the issues of ethnic identity and nationalism as a form of pre-given category, the invocation of ‘land’ remains marginal to ethnic poli...
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On the disappearance and presence of the Slovene-speaking minority in Carinthia (Austria): Insights into the use of language and ethnic affiliation in leisure time from a practice-theoretical perspective Ethnicities (IF 1.555) Pub Date : 2022-05-04 Jonas Kolb
For many decades, the question of setting up bilingual place-name signs accompanied the ethnic conflict between the German-speaking majority and the autochthonous Slovene-speaking minority in Carinthia (Austria). On the 10th anniversary of the 2011 compromise concerning the dispute about place-name signs, this article takes a closer look at the characterization of ethnic relations in Carinthia in the
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Confronting Islamophobia and its consequences in East London in a context of increased surveillance and stigmatisation Ethnicities (IF 1.555) Pub Date : 2022-05-03 Hélène Balazard, Timothy Peace
Islamophobia is an issue faced by Muslims across Europe. In the UK, there is a growing acceptance that the government’s counter-terrorism policy, Prevent, has led to increased discrimination. Current research is split on whether discrimination among Muslims is leading to disengagement and a retreat from public life or whether this has inspired a feeling of responsibility to participate more actively
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The centre for the study of ethnicity and citizenship: Multiculturalism, racialisation, religion and national identity twenty years on Ethnicities (IF 1.555) Pub Date : 2022-04-29 Tariq Modood, Varun Uberoi, Simon Thompson
In November 2019, a conference was held at the University of Bristol to mark the twentieth anniversary of the Centre for the Study of Ethnicity and Citizenship. This special issue of Ethnicities brings together a set of articles by a number of the keynote speakers at that conference. By doing so, it celebrates the Centre’s achievements over these two decades, reveals how the field has changed over
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Black lives matter, police violence, and the Kenosha murders: Materializing race in “Law-and-Order” assemblages Ethnicities (IF 1.555) Pub Date : 2022-04-24 Edward Avery-Natale, Pablo Vila
We use the 2020 incident of the police shooting of Jacob Blake followed by Black Lives Matter protests and the subsequent murder of several activists by Kyle Rittenhouse as a case study to update the Althusserian theory of interpellation using Deleuzian concepts and the idea of “identitarian articulations.” Specifically, we aim to think more about the capacity to accept or reject an interpellation
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“The knife needs the intention of the heart” The construction of ethnic and moral boundaries in Israeli slaughterhouses Ethnicities (IF 1.555) Pub Date : 2022-04-22 Anat Ben-Yonatan
This study examines aspects of ethnic, religious, and moral boundary work among Jewish-Israeli kosher slaughterers based, on 35 in-depth interviews, four ethnographic observations, informal conversations, and other secondary sources such as video footage of the slaughter sites gathered between 2014 and 2019. In Israel, the self-proclaimed sovereign homeland of the Jewish people, being Jewish means
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The role of religious diversity in social progress Ethnicities (IF 1.555) Pub Date : 2022-04-21 Grace Davie
This article brings together the notions of religious diversity and social progress and argues, against the sceptics, that the former can – and indeed must – contribute positively to the latter. To do this, it builds on to a major initiative in which the author had co-responsibility for the material on religion. This was the International Panel on Social Progress (IPSP) which assessed state-of-the-art
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Conditional citizenship in the UK: Polish migrants’ experiences of diversity Ethnicities (IF 1.555) Pub Date : 2022-04-14 Magda Mogilnicka
This paper explores Polish experiences of lived diversities in the UK through the lens of their precarious socio-economic status and ambivalent racial identity. Using the concept of conditional citizenship, the article explores how being only tentatively accepted in British society affects Polish migrants’ understandings of British diversity. Drawing on qualitative data from a study of Polish migrants’
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The political inclusion of British Muslims: From multiculturalism to muscular liberalism Ethnicities (IF 1.555) Pub Date : 2022-04-06 O'Toole Therese
The UK’s counter-radicalisation Prevent policy has been in place for almost two decades. It has changed substantially over that time – from a relatively devolved and non-statutory ‘hearts and minds’ community engagement programme in the late 2000s, to a more centralised approach from 2010, to one that, since 2015, places a statutory duty on employees in public sector institutions to ‘have due regard
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Contextualising Nationalism Ethnicities (IF 1.555) Pub Date : 2022-04-04 Anna Triandafyllidou
This paper seeks to relate the scholarly analysis of nationalism – and of the ways in which nation-states relate to minorities and migrants – with the actual socio-political context within which such analysis takes place. Looking back into the theories of nationalism as they have developed since World War II, the focus of nationalism theorists has shifted from the effort to explain why nations emerged
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Cultural majority rights: Has multiculturalism been turned upside down? Ethnicities (IF 1.555) Pub Date : 2022-04-03 Rainer Bauböck
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How tracking gets under the skin: German education system and social consciousness of Turkish descent students in basic secondary school tracks Ethnicities (IF 1.555) Pub Date : 2022-04-01 Çetin Çelik
Students of Turkish heritage are overrepresented in basic secondary vocational schools and underrepresented in university-track academic secondary schools in Germany. Macro-level studies analyzing this achievement gap generally focus on the effects of family resources, institutional practices, and discrimination. Yet, the impact of macro-level factors, such as the effects of institutional mechanisms
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Multidimensional attitudes: Homonationalist and selective tolerance toward homosexuality and Muslim migration across 21 Countries Ethnicities (IF 1.555) Pub Date : 2022-03-25 Ronald Kwon, William J Scarborough, Caroline Taylor
Attitudinal studies illustrate high levels of support toward homosexuality across European countries. Although these patterns suggest that European societies are becoming more progressive and tolerant, they do not extend to Muslim migration. As Western conceptions of liberalism are increasingly defined in terms of tolerance of sexual minorities as a marker of societal progress, persistent anti-Muslim
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Oti axamiyagiri: Assamese nationalistic masculine identity, United Liberation Front of Asom and cyberspace Ethnicities (IF 1.555) Pub Date : 2022-03-05 Parikshit Sarmah, Debarshi Prasad Nath
This paper argues that the emergence of social media as a new public sphere has shaped masculine identity in the cyber platform. Such masculinity in Assamese society (the Assamese-speaking community), based on the images of the ideal Assamese man is linked with a form of Assamese nationalistic masculinity that gathered momentum during the Assam Movement (1979–1985). Politics of identity in Assam is
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Gender-based violence in a complex humanitarian context: Unpacking the human sufferings among stateless Rohingya women Ethnicities (IF 1.555) Pub Date : 2022-03-03 Grace Priddy, Zoe Doman, Emily Berry, Saleh Ahmed
Rohingya is one of the ethnic minority groups that has faced profound ethnic violence against them in their home country, Myanmar. Almost a million Rohingya have fled to Bangladesh and are currently living in extremely precarious conditions near the Myanmar–Bangladesh border. Despite the sufferings and oppressions of all Rohingya, women, in particular, have been victims of sexual violence. Using various
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Building stamina, fighting fragility: The account of a white settler ‘recovering racist’ Ethnicities (IF 1.555) Pub Date : 2022-02-17 Avril Bell
White fragility, a common response of white people to calls to engage in conversations about racism and address their complicity with it, has received considerable scholarly attention. Much less attention has been given to the antidote: white stamina. This paper explores the development of stamina in the journey of ‘recovery’ from racism of one white settler individual who has become a public figure
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Becoming whānau: Māori and Pākehā working together on the Indigenous-led campaign, #ProtectIhumātao Ethnicities (IF 1.555) Pub Date : 2022-02-02 Frances Hancock, Pania Newton
This paper explores how the Indigenous-led, community-supported campaign #ProtectIhumātao became a site for decolonisation work that nourished productive bicultural relations. For six years, we worked together, alongside others, to stop a transnational corporation building houses on culturally significant, but contested, whenua (land) at Ihumātao, Auckland. Pania draws strength from her Indigenous
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‘So people wake up, what are we gonna do?': From paralysis to action in decolonizing activism Ethnicities (IF 1.555) Pub Date : 2022-02-01 Carisa R Showden, Karen Nairn, Kyle R Matthews
In Aotearoa New Zealand, social and ethical responsibilities to work towards decolonization are shaped by the principles set out in legislation aimed at honouring Te Tiriti o Waitangi (The Treaty of Waitangi). Our study with young settler activists in Aotearoa working on a range of social issues aimed to find out how these activists thought about and worked toward enacting these responsibilities. We
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Generational cohorts versus national origin: Explaining the educational attainment among children of Latin American immigrants in Spain Ethnicities (IF 1.555) Pub Date : 2022-01-27 Jaime Fierro, Sònia Parella, Berta Güell, Alisa Petroff
Over the last 25 years, Spain has experienced a significant increase of Latin American immigrants, which has raised questions about their children’s adaptation process. Yet, there is little evidence on the factors that explain school success or failure among this group. This paper aims to fill this gap by using data from the Longitudinal Study of the Second Generation in Spain (ILSEG is its Spanish