National identity development among recent immigrants: The role of perceived incompatibility

IF 1.8 Q3 PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL

Journal of Social and Political Psychology Pub Date : 2023-07-26 DOI:10.5964/jspp.6105

I. Suchowitz, F. Fleischmann

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Abstract

This study longitudinally investigates the development of host-national identification among recently arrived immigrants and how it relates to origin-national and religious identification. We examine how implicit and explicit measures of identity incompatibility are related by including a measure of perceived value incompatibility into cross-lagged panel models of identification. We exploit three waves of panel data from the New Immigrant Survey Netherlands, targeting recent arrivals from Bulgaria (N = 151), Poland (N = 358), Spain (N = 298), and Turkey (N = 221). We found immigrants’ host-national identification to be relatively stable over time, whereas origin-national and religious identification underwent more changes, in group-specific ways. This suggests immigrants’ strategies to (re-)define their origin and religious identification may differ from strategies driving identification with their host country. Immigrants who perceive their identities to be incompatible do not necessarily reject the host-national identity, but might turn to the higher-status group to sustain a positive and distinct social identity.

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新移民的民族认同发展：感知不相容的作用

本研究纵向调查了新移民中东道国认同的发展，以及它与原籍国认同和宗教认同的关系。我们通过将感知价值不相容的测量纳入识别的交叉滞后面板模型来研究身份不相容的隐式和显式测量是如何相关的。我们利用了来自荷兰新移民调查的三波面板数据，目标是来自保加利亚(N = 151)、波兰(N = 358)、西班牙(N = 298)和土耳其(N = 221)的新移民。我们发现，随着时间的推移，移民的东道国认同相对稳定，而原籍国和宗教认同则以群体特定的方式经历了更多的变化。这表明移民(重新)定义其起源和宗教认同的策略可能不同于推动对东道国认同的策略。认为自己的身份不相容的移民不一定会拒绝东道国的身份，但可能会转向地位较高的群体，以维持积极和独特的社会身份。

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Journal of Social and Political Psychology Social Sciences-Sociology and Political Science

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2.70

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4.80%

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40 weeks

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