Minority candidates on party lists: evidence from Belgium

Ecevit, Yüksel Alper; Kinsey, Barbara Sgouraki

doi:10.1057/s41269-020-00193-1

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“…Yet, minority voices have been largely absent from national identity discourse in Western Europe until recently. One reason why minority voices are too often still missing in public debates, is the continued under-representation of immigrant-origin minority persons in national institutions and on the political stage (Bloemraad & Schönwälder, 2013;Ecevit & Kinsey, 2022). Consequently, minority groups often lack representatives who publicly embody and thus might collectively redefine the national identity in ways that include cultural diversity.…”

Section: A Minority Perspective On National Identitymentioning

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National Identity Development Among Minority Youth: Longitudinal Relations with National Fit Perceptions and School Belonging

Gharaei,

Fleischmann,

Phalet

2024

J. Youth Adolescence

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Across Western Europe, immigrant-origin minority youth often struggle to belong socially and to develop national self-identification. Yet, almost no research to-date has asked how these youth perceive the cultural contents of the national identity in their residence country—or rather, to what extent they perceive youth like them to (mis)fit the national identity. The present study addressed this research gap by centering schools as developmental contexts of evolving belonging and national self-identification and newly inquiring into minority youth’s perceptions of national (mis)fit as critical levers of their national identity development. Drawing on data from two annual waves of the Leuven-Children of Immigrants Longitudinal Study (Leuven-CILS), a sample of 942 Moroccan- and Turkish-origin youth (Mage-T1 = 14.98, SD = 1.22; 52% female) in 62 Belgian schools was used. Cross-lagged analysis combined repeated measures of school belonging and national self-identification with vignette measures of the perceived national fit of (imagined) culturally different peers. While school belonging and national self-identification were unrelated over time, earlier perceived national fit uniquely enabled more national self-identification one year later, over and above evolving school belonging. These findings suggest that experiencing belonging in school does not suffice for minority youth to develop national self-identification. Schools may, however, promote national identity development through redefining national identities to include cultural diversity—thereby signaling to minority youth that they can fit the national identity.

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Section: A Minority Perspective On National Identitymentioning

confidence: 99%

National Identity Development Among Minority Youth: Longitudinal Relations with National Fit Perceptions and School Belonging

Gharaei,

Fleischmann,

Phalet

2024

J. Youth Adolescence

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“…A large body of research shows that negative attitudes toward immigrants are, among others, fueled by worsening economic conditions that alter competition over scarce resources and heighten perceptions of relative economic loss due to immigration (Dancygier, 2010;Dancygier and Donnelly, 2013;Mayda, 2006). Even though evidence is mixed, we can expect more resistance to tolerance and immigrant inclusion in poor economic conditions with high levels of inequality and unemployment (Ecevit and Kinsey, 2013). Consequently, parties nominate fewer immigrantorigin candidates in voting districts where unemployment is high (H3a) and the perceived backlash is strong.…”

Section: Economic Insecuritymentioning

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Nomination trade-offs: How context affects political parties’ strategies to nominate immigrant-origin candidates

Nadler

2021

Party Politics

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Political parties in Western democracies with large immigrant populations have become increasingly interested in nominating immigrant-origin candidates. This paper investigates how contextual factors explain parties’ effort of immigrant representation. I argue that nominations of immigrant-origin candidates are shaped by parties’ strategic calculations weighing out potential vote gains among immigrant-origin voters compared to a potential native backlash. I contend that alien enfranchisement and liberal naturalization policies provide decisive incentives to nominate immigrant-origin candidates. In contrast, economic insecurity implies potential material threat perceptions generating a native backlash against immigrants, reducing the nomination of immigrant-origin candidates. Using a novel dataset on candidates in Switzerland, the analysis reveals that the political and economic contexts indeed determine the number of immigrant-origin candidates and their ballot position, particularly those of non-Western origin. These findings have significant implications for our understanding of strategic behaviors of political parties and the promotion of immigrant representation.

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Minority candidates on party lists: evidence from Belgium

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National Identity Development Among Minority Youth: Longitudinal Relations with National Fit Perceptions and School Belonging

National Identity Development Among Minority Youth: Longitudinal Relations with National Fit Perceptions and School Belonging

Nomination trade-offs: How context affects political parties’ strategies to nominate immigrant-origin candidates

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