Experience of discrimination in egalitarian societies: the Sámi and majority populations in Sweden and Norway

Yasar, Rusen; Bergmann, Fabian; Lloyd-Smith, Anika; Schmid, Sven-Patrick; Holzinger, Katharina; Kupisch, Tanja

doi:10.1080/01419870.2023.2243313

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“…The finding of distinctly conflicting group preferences regarding territorial rights, which has the most direct link to material matters, is especially noteworthy, since previous research finds no difference in material status between the Sámi and majority groups (Yasar et al 2023). Material issues thus also matter in the absence of economic inequality.…”

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confidence: 86%

“…6 The survey was conducted by an interdisciplinary research team of political scientists and linguists. For a more general description of the Nordic Peoples Survey and the overall dataset, see Yasar et al (2023). 7 Appendix A provides the exact wording of the vignettes.…”

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“…Moreover, like many other Indigenous peoples, the Sámi suffered injustices such as losses of their traditional lands, culture and languages for centuries (Lantto 2010;Minde 2003a;Trosterud 2008). Yet, unlike many other Indigenous peoples, the Sámi in Norway and Sweden today live in affluent welfare states with high material standards of living that do not differ substantially between the majority and Indigenous population (Yasar et al 2023). This, in turn, creates a leastlikely scenario of finding group differences in policy preferences based on material disparities.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…This, in turn, creates a leastlikely scenario of finding group differences in policy preferences based on material disparities. Finally, findings that the Sámi are, in comparison to the majority population, more likely to experience discrimination (Hansen et al 2016;Yasar et al 2023) suggest that other inequalities still exist and remain to be rectified.…”

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Divided Attitudes Toward Rectifying Injustice: How Preferences for Indigenous Policies Differ Between the Indigenous and Majority Populations of Norway and Sweden

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2024

J. Race Ethnicity Politics

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Most states acknowledge the significance of Indigenous rights to rectify past injustices. Yet, on the domestic level, the realization of these rights depends on national policies. For democratic societies, questions about public opinion toward Indigenous policies are thus of great interest but remain largely unstudied. To what extent does the ethnic majority support policies conducive to Indigenous rights realization? And how different are the Indigenous population’s policy preferences? I use original experimental data from a vignette study to investigate these questions in the case of the Sámi people in Norway and Sweden. I hypothesize that groups’ attitudes are shaped by policies’ potential to alter the social status hierarchy between the majority and Indigenous populations. The results provide a nuanced picture. The ethnic majority shows significantly less support for policies facilitating Sámi linguistic, self-governance, and territorial rights. While the Sámi have, in general, more positive attitudes toward such policies, their support seems to be less pronounced than the majority’s resistance. Moreover, as attitudes are surprisingly similar when compared between Norway and Sweden, a country’s existing policy context does not appear to be crucial in the formation of these preferences.

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confidence: 99%