Can Narratives of White Identity Reduce Opposition to Immigration and Support for Hard Brexit? A Survey Experiment

Kaufmann, Eric P.

doi:10.1177/0032321717740489

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“…If instead, a politician vents about how the EU interferes with the U.K.'s ability to independently set fiscal policies that it deems beneficial (i.e., a realistic, economic threat to the U.K.), this could activate the concerns of individuals higher in British national identification, increasing their support of Brexit. Our suggestion that the SMIT model can be used to understand Brexit support converges with sociological (Bonikowski, 2017) and political science (Kaufmann, 2019) accounts of how "elite discourse" and media messages can shift Brexit (and related populist) attitudes, depending on a perceiver's sociopolitical predispositions.…”

Section: The Need For Integrative Theories Of Intergroup Relationssupporting

confidence: 54%

Introducing the Sociopolitical Motive × Intergroup Threat Model to Understand How Monoracial Perceivers’ Sociopolitical Motives Influence Their Categorization of Multiracial People

Kteily

Chen

2020

Pers Soc Psychol Rev

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Researchers have used social dominance, system justification, authoritarianism, and social identity theories to understand how monoracial perceivers’ sociopolitical motives influence their categorization of multiracial people. The result has been a growing understanding of how particular sociopolitical motives and contexts affect categorization, without a unifying perspective to integrate these insights. We review evidence supporting each theory’s predictions concerning how monoracial perceivers categorize multiracial people who combine their ingroup with an outgroup, with attention to the moderating role of perceiver group status. We find most studies cannot arbitrate between theories of categorization and reveal additional gaps in the literature. To advance this research area, we introduce the sociopolitical motive × intergroup threat model of racial categorization that (a) clarifies which sociopolitical motives interact with which intergroup threats to predict categorization and (b) highlights the role of perceiver group status. Furthermore, we consider how our model can help understand phenomena beyond multiracial categorization.

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Section: The Need For Integrative Theories Of Intergroup Relationssupporting

confidence: 54%

Introducing the Sociopolitical Motive × Intergroup Threat Model to Understand How Monoracial Perceivers’ Sociopolitical Motives Influence Their Categorization of Multiracial People

Kteily

Chen

2020

Pers Soc Psychol Rev

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“…Indeed, Mutz (2018, E4330) argues strongly that “candidate preferences in 2016 reflected increasing anxiety among high-status groups” rather than complaints among low-status groups based on pocketbook issues. Her analysis finds that “growing domestic racial diversity … contributed to a sense that white Americans are under siege.” Conversely, experiments show that making assimilation more salient, such that the status of whites is not threatened by immigration, reduces support for Hard Brexit in the UK, especially among Brexit and white working-class voters (Kaufmann 2019b).…”

Section: The Demography Of International Migration: New Sources Immimentioning

confidence: 99%

“…True, both are countries with a history of immigration; but so is the United States. What seems important, as Kaufmann (2019a,b) has argued, is the perception of immigration, including exposure to and expectations regarding immigrants. Regions or countries with a low percentage of immigrants, but who fear that immigration will be ill regulated and chaotic, show greater support for populist leaders.…”

Section: The Demography Of International Migration: New Sources Immimentioning

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Demography and the Future of Democracy

Goldstone¹,

Diamond²

2020

Perspect. polit.

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The world is in the midst of a demographic recession. This counters what should be a long-term trend toward greater democracy. Recent research has shown that progress toward stable democracy is strongly associated with progress in the demographic transition. Since most of the world is rapidly dropping in fertility as more countries complete this transition, democracy should be spreading. However, a resurgence of anxiety, nationalism, and support for strong-man governance is associated with sudden waves of immigration from unfamiliar sources. Because certain parts of the world—mainly Central America, sub-Saharan Africa, and the Middle East—still have very young and rapidly growing populations who suffer from poor economic prospects, adverse climate change, and bad governance, those regions are sending waves of migrants seeking asylum to Europe and the United States, raising anxieties that undermine liberal democratic governance. Global democracy is thus being tugged in opposing directions by current demographic trends. Improving governance in poorer countries to cope with the negative impact of climate change and to create better economic prospects, as well as efforts to reduce fertility, are essential to diminish the surges of migrants and restore the impetus toward democracy that should prevail in mature societies.

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“…Moreover, an important group of these supporters can be assuaged by the belief that immigrants and their descendants are becoming part of the majority ‘us’ through intermarriage and assimilation. To illustrate: in the Yougov survey I conducted in August 2016, I asked British respondents about their views on immigration and how much they would be willing to pay to reduce immigration from the European Union (Kaufmann ). Those who favoured a ‘hard Brexit’ position of zero EU immigrants had to pay five per cent of their income, with smaller increments for lesser reductions.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The effects were especially marked on the question of EU immigration, notably among UKIP, Leave and White working‐class respondents. Thus, the proportion of UKIP voters willing to pay five per cent of their income to reduce EU immigration to zero fell from forty‐five per cent among those reading the first or no passage to fifteen per cent for those who saw the second, assimilationist vignette (Kaufmann ). This effect is caused by exposure to a mere paragraph.…”

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Ethno‐traditional nationalism and the challenge of immigration

Kaufmann

2019

Nations and Nationalism

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The rise of the populist right in the West is emerging as the most discussed manifestation of nationalism in the world today. In this paper, I argue that this 'new nationalism' is largely driven by immigration, which affects ethnic majorities within nation-states. This in turn alters the ethnic character of the nation, challenging what I term the ethno-traditions of nationhood. Our inherited concepts of ethnic and civic nationalism were developed in an earlier period when immigration was limited and territorial revisionism animated nationalist movements. Only on the furthest reaches of the extreme right is the worldview one of ethnic nationalism. In our demographically churning yet territorially static western world, we need a new term to describe the cultural nationalism of the anti-immigration right. I characterise this as ethno-traditional nationalism, a variety of nationalism which seeks to protect the traditional preponderance of ethnic majorities through slower immigration and assimilation but which does not seek to close the door entirely to migration or exclude minorities from national membership.The rise of the populist right in the West is emerging as the most discussed manifestation of nationalism in the world today. In this paper, I argue that this 'new nationalism' is largely driven by immigration, which affects ethnic majorities within nation-states. This in turn alters the ethnic character of the nation, challenging what I term the ethno-traditions of nationhooda change which mobilises resistance among both majority and minority cultural conservatives. In other words, the ethnic majority and other established ethnic groups are symbols of the nation alongside other reference points such as language or ideology. This approach represents an extension of Anthony Smith's (1998) theory of ethnosymbolism. Rather than apply it to the origin of nations, I use it to account for the motivation of leaders of, and voters for, populist right political parties. These aim to protect the ethnic majoritya symbol of the nationthrough immigration restriction and ethnic assimilation.Unfortunately, our theories of nationalism were either developed during periods of limited immigration or grew from historical analyses of periods in

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Can Narratives of White Identity Reduce Opposition to Immigration and Support for Hard Brexit? A Survey Experiment

Cited by 31 publications

References 38 publications

Introducing the Sociopolitical Motive × Intergroup Threat Model to Understand How Monoracial Perceivers’ Sociopolitical Motives Influence Their Categorization of Multiracial People

Introducing the Sociopolitical Motive × Intergroup Threat Model to Understand How Monoracial Perceivers’ Sociopolitical Motives Influence Their Categorization of Multiracial People

Demography and the Future of Democracy

Ethno‐traditional nationalism and the challenge of immigration

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