Team and Nation: Sports, Nationalism, and Attitudes Toward Refugees

Rosenzweig, Leah R.; Zhou, Yang-Yang

doi:10.1177/0010414021997498

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“…The suggested mechanism by which emphasizing a narrower and more exclusive form of national identification exacerbates anti-immigrant attitudes implies that educational content that does not directly engage with anti-immigrant narratives can still have a significant negative impact on attitudes towards immigrants. This is in line with recent evidence showing an indirect influence of national identity on attitudes towards refugees (Rosenzweig and Zhou, 2020).…”

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The Impact of Educational Content on Anti-Immigrant Attitudes

Lee¹

2022

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How does education affect attitudes towards immigrants? Shifting the scholarly focus from levels of education to educational content, I argue that the effect of education depends on the type of national identification that educational content promotes. Content that promotes a narrower form of national belonging fosters more negative attitudes towards immigrants because it emphasizes a more exclusive notion of national membership. To test the implications of my theory, I leverage a textbook reform in Taiwan that introduced a new narrative promoting Taiwanese identity based on a common ancestral and historical background. Using a difference-in-differences design that compares academic and vocational paths affected differently by the reform, I find that the consumption of educational content emphasizing a narrower form of national identification induces exclusionary attitudes towards immigrants. The evidence suggests that higher levels of education do not necessarily increase positive attitudes towards outsiders -- it depends on what is taught.

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Section: Covariatessupporting

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The Impact of Educational Content on Anti-Immigrant Attitudes

Lee¹

2022

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“…For example, in Jordan and Colombia, Alrababa'h et al (2021) and Holland, Peters and Zhou (2021), respectively, find that citizens were more supportive of migrants when they are more vulnerable -women, families with children, widows, and those who are fleeing poverty and violence. Additionally, interventions emphasizing the merits of diversity or a supranational identity such as pan-Africanism (Rosenzweig and Zhou, 2021), and listening to refugees' personal narratives (Audette, Horowitz and Michelitch, 2020) in East Africa can reduce citizens' negative attitudes toward migrants. Yet, in these cases, there is evidence that respondents are instrumental: Jordanians preferred Syrian refugees who shared a similar sect of Islam (Alrababa'h et al, 2021), Colombians preferred Venezuelan migrants who shared a political ideology (Holland, Peters and Zhou, 2021), Tanzanians preferred Burundian refugees who shared their religion and could speak Tanzanian Kiswahili (Zhou, 2018).…”

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Who’s Deserving? How People Experiencing Displacement View Migrant Identity and Asylum Policy

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Zhou²,

Kappos³

2022

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How do people leaving their homes due to crises conceptualize the “refugee” or “migrant” label? Do they identify with other refugees and migrant groups? How would they prioritize certain types of migrants for resettlement in our current system? What do they think of the current system and possible changes to it. While numerous studies have explored host citizens’ attitudes on migration, largely within in the Global North, this study highlights the views of those affected by three major recent forced displacement contexts. We interviewed Syrians (N=1192) and Iraqis (N=235) living in Turkey, Jordan, Syria, and Iraq, as well as Venezuelans (N=1612) living in Colombia. We also conducted six focus groups (N=36) and community leader interviews (N=8) with Syrians living in Istanbul, Turkey. Our study is unique in that we are able to make multiple comparisons: across displacement contexts, and between those who are legally categorized by the international community as “refugees” (Syrians and Iraqis) and those who do not fall under this legal category (Venezuelans). We use conjoint experiments to probe respondents’ views on which refugees are deserving of being granted asylum and/or receive assistance. We find similar results across contexts: our respondents do not strongly identify with the “refugee” label or other migrant groups; they favor their conationals and people who are experiencing similar crises for priority entrance. We find little evidence that they develop solidarities with other migrant groups or engage in perspective-taking.

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“…However, the exodus of Syrian refugees, as in the context of forced migration governance, shifted the attention of scholars to study the attitudes towards refugees (Alrababah et al 2020). There also exist 23 similar studies on host community members and Congolese refugees in Rwanda (Fajth et al 2019), Burmese refugee camp residents' social structures in Thailand (Bochmann 2018), Ivorian refugees in Liberia (Hartman and Morse 2020), and attitudes towards refugees in Sub-Saharan Africa (Rosenzweig and Zhou 2021). Yet, these studies focus either on the host community side or on the refugee side of the subject.…”

Section: Intergroup Encountersmentioning

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Broadening the positionality in migration studies: Assigned insider category

Irgil

2020

Migration Studies

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This article contributes to the debates on positionality in migration studies by introducing assigned insider as a new category. I define it as a position when both the interviewees and the researcher are of the same local origin in which the researcher is considered ‘an insider of the host community’ and the interview questions are about a migrant group. I developed this category based on interviews with host community members during my field study in Bursa, Turkey, where I was born and raised. Previous studies focused on the researcher being an insider from a migrant community or being an outsider conducting research on a migrant community different from his/her own. Assigned insider has two elements that require it to be considered differently: same local origin operates as an overriding feature that goes beyond ethnicity and the interviewees being from the host community involves different ethical aspects than that from a migrant community. I argue that these reflect on the researcher during the interviews through active and passive discontent manifestations of the interviewees. While the former emphasises the direct confrontations of the interviewees that lead them to ‘correct’ the researcher, the latter manifests itself through non-verbal ways, which can result in refraining from answering questions.

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Team and Nation: Sports, Nationalism, and Attitudes Toward Refugees

Cited by 33 publications

References 75 publications

The Impact of Educational Content on Anti-Immigrant Attitudes

The Impact of Educational Content on Anti-Immigrant Attitudes

Who’s Deserving? How People Experiencing Displacement View Migrant Identity and Asylum Policy

Broadening the positionality in migration studies: Assigned insider category

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