Serbian adolescents’ Romaphobia and their acculturation orientations towards the Roma minority

Ljujic, Vanja; Vedder, Paul; Dekker, Henk; Geel, Mitch van

doi:10.1016/j.ijintrel.2010.11.015

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“…These conceptions are termed acculturation expectations in this study. Research indicates that members of majority populations in multicultural societies ideally prefer ethnic minorities to choose integration as an acculturation strategy, while others desire assimilation for them (see, for instance, Barrette, Bourhis, Personnaz, & Personnaz, 2004;Bourhis, Barrette, El-Geledi, & Schmidt, 2009;Jasinskaja-Lahti, Liebkind, Horenczyk, & Schmitz, 2003;Ljujic, Vedder, Dekker, & van Geel, 2010). For devalued minority group members, majority members, however, seem to be more inclined to prefer separation or assimilation than for valued minority groups (Bourhis & Dayan, 2004;Montreuil & Bourhis, 2001;Safdar, Dupuis, Lewis, El-Geledi, & Bourhis, 2008).…”

Section: Societal Acculturation Expectationsmentioning

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Relationship between perceived acculturation expectations and Muslim minority youth's acculturation and adaptation

Kunst

Sam

2013

International Journal of Intercultural Relations

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a b s t r a c tAcculturation strategies have frequently been used to describe how members of ethnic minorities reconcile their heritage culture with the culture of their society of residence. Recently, studies have started to pay increased attention to the fact that the choice of acculturation strategy does not take place in a social vacuum. In the present study, we test whether the perception of assimilation expectations held by the societal majority (PSAE) as well as separation expectations held by ethnic peers (PESE) may be related to individuals' own acculturation strategy. Furthermore, we investigate whether these perceived expectations are directly related to stress and indirectly to adaptation, mediated by acculturation strategies. All relationships were investigated using multi-group structural equation modeling with members from three Muslim minority groups: 301 German-Turks, 302 French-Maghrebis and 262 British-Pakistanis. Across the samples, PSAE was associated with higher degrees of stress. PESE was negatively related to integration, while it was positively related to separation. In addition, PESE was indirectly and negatively related with self-esteem and/or socio-cultural adaptation in all samples. The impact of societal assimilation expectation appears to be limited in this regard. In all, the present study suggests that perceived acculturation expectations may influence ethnic minorities' acculturation strategy. The results also suggest that perceived expectations that contrast with individuals' personal acculturation preference could result in higher levels of stress and lower levels of psychological and socio-cultural adaptation, mediated by acculturation strategies.

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Section: Societal Acculturation Expectationsmentioning

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Relationship between perceived acculturation expectations and Muslim minority youth's acculturation and adaptation

Kunst

Sam

2013

International Journal of Intercultural Relations

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“…The fact that islamophobia was unrelated to segregationism was somewhat unexpected given comparable studies showing such a relationship, albeit not with Muslims as an out‐group (Barrette et al, ; Bourhis & Dayan, ; Ljujic et al, ). Indeed, while showing good psychometric properties, the variable was orthogonal to all other study variables.…”

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“…Last, segregationism involves the cultural isolation of ethnic minorities, allowing them to keep their heritage culture but expecting them to stay separated from the national society. Ceteris paribus, majority members mostly endorse an integrationist orientation towards minorities (e.g., Bourhis, Barrette, El-Geledi, & Schmidt, 2009;Ljujic, Vedder, Dekker, & van Geel, 2010;Rohmann, Florack, & Piontkowski, 2006). However, they tend to expect more segregationism and assimilationism from devalued minorities than from valued minorities (Bourhis & Dayan, 2004;Montreuil & Bourhis, 2001;Safdar, Dupuis, Lewis, El-Geledi, & Bourhis, 2008) and especially from minority members who were born in the dominant national society (Kunst & Sam, 2013b).…”

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The vicious circle of religious prejudice: Islamophobia makes the acculturation attitudes of majority and minority members clash

Kunst

Sadeghi

Tahir

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Euro J Social Psych

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Public discourse often portrays Islam as the main obstacle for Muslim minorities' integration, paying little attention to the contextual factors hindering this process. Here, we focus on islamophobia as one destructive factor that hinders the mutual integration between Muslim minority and Western majority members, affecting both groups. In Study 1, the more islamophobic majority members were, the more they expected Muslims to give up their heritage culture and the less they wanted them to integrate. In Study 2, only when Muslims experienced substantial religious discrimination did religious identity negatively relate to national engagement and particularly positively relate to ethnic engagement. Together, the studies suggest that religious prejudice in the form of islamophobia is a major obstacle to Muslims' integration because it increases the incongruity between majority and minority members' acculturation attitudes.

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“…Conversely, low academic performance may confirm and reinforce ethnicity-based negative stereotypes and stigma. Recent research suggests that these general findings apply to Roma ethnics in European countries, as well as in Romania (Ljujic et al, 2012;Rostaș, 2012).…”

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Situated Learning in Young Romanian Roma Successful Learning Biographies

Nistor¹,

Stanciu

Vanea³

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European Educational Research Journal

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European Roma are often associated with social problems and conflicts due to poverty and low formal education. Nevertheless, Roma communities traditionally develop expertise in ethnically specific domains, probably by alternative, informal ways, such as situated learning in communities of practice. Although predictable, empirical evidence of Romani situated learning practice and its socio-cognitive effects is scarce. This qualitative study with quantitative components outlines knowledge domains, social contexts, and the initiation and evolution of situated learning, along with their occurring frequencies, in eighteen biographies of young Romanian Roma students, from which four cases are presented in detail. The study suggests that situated learning is omnipresent in successful Roma learning biographies, and has positive, cognitive and social effects, such as expertise and social skills, which may prevent social exclusion and stigma. The conclusions are relevant for educational research, and for educators and policy makers involved in social work with Roma ethnics.

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Serbian adolescents’ Romaphobia and their acculturation orientations towards the Roma minority

Cited by 25 publications

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Relationship between perceived acculturation expectations and Muslim minority youth's acculturation and adaptation

Relationship between perceived acculturation expectations and Muslim minority youth's acculturation and adaptation

The vicious circle of religious prejudice: Islamophobia makes the acculturation attitudes of majority and minority members clash

Situated Learning in Young Romanian Roma Successful Learning Biographies

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