Hostility Towards immigrants’ languages in Britain: a backlash against ‘super-diversity’?
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DOI: 10.1080/01434632.2018.1520859
Abstract: ABSTRACT Sociolinguists have adopted the concept of ‘super-diversity’ from cultural anthropology to analyse multidimensional changes in ethnolinguistic identities resulting from recent mass migration. Sociolinguistic super-diversity is thus understood as a central aspect of shifts in… read more here.
Keywords: diversity; hostility towards; super diversity; immigrants languages ... See more keywords
Different groups, different threats: public attitudes towards immigrants‡
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DOI: 10.1080/1369183x.2016.1202749
Abstract: ABSTRACT Research on attitudes towards immigrants devotes much attention to the relative effects of economic and social-psychological factors for understanding sentiment towards immigrants, conceived in general terms. In this article, we advance this work by… read more here.
Keywords: different threats; attitudes towards; immigrants different; different groups ... See more keywords
Pandemic threat and intergroup relations: how negative emotions associated with the threat of Covid-19 shape attitudes towards immigrants
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DOI: 10.1080/1369183x.2022.2031925
Abstract: Behavioural immune system theory predicts that attitudes towards immigrants become more hostile during times of increased threat from pathogens, as pandemic threat triggers aversive emotional responses, which in turn foster outgroup hostility. We test this… read more here.
Keywords: threat; pandemic threat; covid; towards immigrants ... See more keywords