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Revisiting group threat theory using insights from stigma research
Umeå University, Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Sociology.ORCID iD: 0000-0001-8335-9235
Umeå University, Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Sociology.ORCID iD: 0000-0001-9023-7316
Umeå University, Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Sociology.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-8749-6939
Umeå University, Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Sociology.ORCID iD: 0000-0001-5525-468X
2024 (English)In: Migration stigma: understanding prejudice, discrimination, and exclusion / [ed] Lawrence H. Yang; Maureen A. Eger; Bruce G. Link, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2024, p. 45-57Chapter in book (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

This chapter focuses on group threat theory (Blumer 1958), one of the main sociological approaches used to explain prejudice toward minority groups. It examines the utility of the theory when applied to prejudice in the context of migration-generated diversity and analyzes how its original formulation by Blumer compares with the conceptualization of stigma by Link and Phelan (2001). Similarities and diff erences are drawn between Blumer's "four feelings" in prejudice and Link and Phelan's "four components" constitutive of stigma. Despite overlapping, complementary, and at time divergent arguments, using these two approaches in tandem may overcome the limitations of group threat theory and, in the process, advance research into anti-immigrant sentiment. In turn, it is posited that scholarship on stigma may gain from incorporating the concept of threat into its framework.

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Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2024. p. 45-57
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Strüngmann Forum Reports ; 32
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stigma, migrant, immigrant, immigration, international migration
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International Migration and Ethnic Relations
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URN: urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-215679DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/15529.003.0006ISBN: 9780262548120 (print)ISBN: 9780262378833 (electronic)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:umu-215679DiVA, id: diva2:1807108
Available from: 2023-10-24 Created: 2023-10-24 Last updated: 2024-07-02Bibliographically approved

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Bohman, AndreaEger, Maureen A.Gabrielsson, DanielVelásquez, Paolo

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