Cardiac vagal control among migrants: Associations with mainstream acculturation and perceived ethnic discrimination.

This article adds an intergenerational perspective to the study of perceived ethnic discrimination. It proposes the conjecture that perceived discrimination tends to increase with parental education, particularly among those children of immigrants who have attained only mediocre levels of education themselves. I discuss that this conjecture may be developed as an argument that comes in two versions: a narrow version about explicit downward (intergenerational) mobility and a wide version about unfulfilled mobility aspirations more generally. Analyses based on the six-country comparative EURISLAM survey sup-port the argument: parental education positively predicts perceived discrimination in general, but among the less educated this relation is most pronounced whereas it is absent among those with tertiary education. A replication and falsification test based on the German IAB-SOEP Migration Sample reconfirms the main finding and provides further original pieces of evidence. The analyses suggest processes associated with unfulfilled mobility aspirations as the more plausible underlying reason.

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When psychological contract is violated: Revisiting the Rejection-Disidentification Model of immigrant integration

Journal of Social and Political Psychology ◽

10.5964/jspp.v6i2.890 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 6 (2) ◽

pp. 484-510 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Inga Jasinskaja-Lahti ◽

Göksu Celikkol ◽

Tuuli Anna Renvik ◽

Viivi Eskelinen ◽

Raivo Vetik ◽

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Keyword(s):

Psychological Contract ◽

Minority Group ◽

Ethnic Discrimination ◽

Immigrant Integration ◽

Russian Speakers ◽

Majority Group ◽

The Social ◽

Comparative Survey ◽

Majority Groups ◽

Perceived Ethnic Discrimination

In this study, we investigated how perceived ethnic discrimination is related to attitudes towards the national majority group and willingness to confront injustice to promote the social standing of a minority group. We examined this relationship via two mediating factors; national (dis)identification from and out-group (dis)trust of the national majority group. The Rejection-Disidentification Model (RDIM) was refined, first, to account for willingness to confront injustice as a consequence of perceived rejection, and second, intergroup (dis)trust was examined as an additional mediating mechanism that can explain attitudinal and behavioural reactions to perceived rejection simultaneously with national disidentification. The model was tested in a comparative survey data of Russian-speaking minority in Estonia (N = 482), Finland (N = 254), and Norway (N = 219). In all three countries, the more Russian-speakers identified as Russians and the more they perceived ethnic discrimination, the more negative were their attitudes toward the national majority groups and the more willing they were to engage in action to confront group-based injustice. Whereas disidentification from and distrust of national majority group accounted for the discrimination-attitude link to a large extent, both factors had demobilizing effects on willingness to confront injustice, making Russian-speaking immigrants more passive but hostile. The findings are discussed in relation to the risks involved in politicization of immigrants struggling with perceived inequalities.

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