A New Typology of Perceived Discrimination and Its Relationship to Immigrants’ Political Trust
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Myongji University, Seoul
Publication date: 2016-06-28
Polish Sociological Review 2016;194(2):209-226
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ABSTRACT
This study investigates the link between perceived discrimination and political trust among immigrants
in European countries. Focusing on perceived discrimination, I emphasize the diversity of mechanisms through
which discrimination is perceived by immigrants; in other words, perceptions of discrimination are multidimensional.
This is in stark contrast to most of the research that uncritically assumes that the perceptions of discrimination
are unidimensional. Employing the European Social Survey, I find that each of the diverse dimensions of
perceived discrimination has different associations with immigrants’ political trust. Furthermore, the association
between diverse dimensions of perceived discrimination and political trust varies depending on the immigrant’s
generational status. For first-generation immigrants, their trust in political institutions is related to seven types of
perception of discrimination, whereas, for the second generation, it is linked only to four types. This indicates that
first-generation immigrants’ political trust is more responsive to the perceptions of discrimination in comparison
to the second generation of immigrants.
FUNDING
This work was supported by the National Research Foundation of Korea Grant funded by the Korean Government (NRF-2013S1A3A2042859).