Dimensions of British Identity

Tilley, James; Exley, Sonia; Heath, Anthony

doi:10.4135/9781849208666.n7

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“…As Paul Gilroy puts it: ‘Nobody post‐Lenny, Lennox and Linford, Scarey, Denise and Naomi, could doubt that there is, after all, some kind of black somewhere in or rather underneath the Union Jack.’ (Gilroy 2002: xxiv). This argument is supported by empirical analysis of British national identity beliefs, which show a sharp decline in the importance accorded to whiteness and British ancestry as markers of ‘being British’ (or English, Scottish, Welsh) among those born since mass immigration began (Tilley, Exley and Heath 2004).…”

Section: Racism In Decline?mentioning

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Is racial prejudice declining in Britain?¹

Ford

2008

British Journal of Sociology

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This article employs two previously neglected indicators of racial prejudice from the British Social Attitudes surveys to examine the social distribution of prejudices against black and Asian Britons. Three hypotheses are proposed and tested: that racial prejudice is declining in Britain; that this decline is principally generational in nature; and that greater prejudice is shown towards more culturally distinct Asian minorities than black minorities. Strong evidence is found for the first two hypotheses, with evidence of an overall decline in prejudice and of a sharp decline in prejudices among generations who have grown up since mass black and Asian immigration began in the 1950s. Little evidence is found for the third hypothesis: British reactions towards black and Asian minorities are broadly similar suggesting racial differences may still be the main factor prompting white hostility to British minorities.

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Section: Racism In Decline?mentioning

confidence: 93%

Is racial prejudice declining in Britain?¹

Ford

2008

British Journal of Sociology

118

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“…1 Survey researchers often treat civic or ethnocultural versions of British identity as mutually exclusive stances (e.g. Tilley et al, 2004). In ordinary discursive practice, however, contradictory formulations often co-exist within accounts.…”

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English Identity and Ethnic Diversity in the Context of UK Constitutional Change

2006

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At the time of the devolution settlement in the UK, there was widespread concern that the establishment of the Scottish Parliament and National Assembly for Wales would prompt a rise in English identity at the expense of British identity and, in turn, threaten polyethnic constructions of citizenship. Such presumptions typically rested on reified understandings of the category labels British and English, and conflated the construct of national identity with the constructs of territorial belonging, social inclusion and citizenship. Post-devolution survey data do not currently reveal a decline in British identity in England. Measures of attachment to Englishness vary as a function of ethnic origin of respondent, but also as a function of question wording. A qualitative interview study of young adult Pakistani-origin Muslims in Greater Manchester, north-west England, illustrates how Englishness may be understood to pertain variously to an exclusive cultural or racial category, or to an inclusive territorial entity or community of political interest. Ethnic constructions of English identity need not imply exclusive understandings of citizenship, but their meaning depends crucially on the ways in which nationality and identity are in turn understood in relation to matters of polity and civil society. Conversely, inclusive understandings of national identity do not guarantee the existence of effective ethnic integration or substantive ethnic equality.

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“…Following on from the work of other scholars in this field (Kunovich 2009;Wright 2011a;Wright, Citrin and Wand 2012;Tilley, Exley and Heath 2004;Heath and Tilley 2005), respondents who chose items 3, 4, or 9 might be assumed to emphasize ascriptive identity while respondents who chose items 8 or 10 might be assumed to emphasize civic identity. Because of the forced choice nature of this survey question, investigating whether these items go together empirically is not possible with standard techniques like factor analysis.…”

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Immigration, national identity and political trust in European democracies

McLaren

2016

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

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This paper argues that discrepancies between individual-level conceptualizations of national identity and official government approaches to national identity, as reflected in policies towards migrants, contribute to reduced levels of political trust in Europe. Public opinion data matched with contextual data measuring immigrant incorporation policies are used to investigate this proposition. The findings indicate that individuals who take a more exclusive approach to national identity but live in political systems that are comparatively more welcoming of immigrant incorporation into the national political system tend to be the least trusting of their political systems, and this is closely followed by those individuals who adopt a more inclusive form of identity but live in countries that are relatively less welcoming in their treatment of immigrants. Where individual identity and immigrant incorporation are both inclusive, trust tends to be relatively high.

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Dimensions of British Identity

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Is racial prejudice declining in Britain?¹

Is racial prejudice declining in Britain?¹

English Identity and Ethnic Diversity in the Context of UK Constitutional Change

Immigration, national identity and political trust in European democracies

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