Anticipated and Achieved Individual Mobility Amongst Portuguese Immigrants in Switzerland: Social Identity Adjustment and Inter-Minority Relations

Abstract: Socially mobile minority members (i.e., those who acquire a higher status membership) adjust their social identities, and eventually show negative attitudes towards minorities, as compared to non-mobile members. We examined whether these changes could be understood as the result of individual mobility achievements, or if they already occur at an earlier stage of the mobility process, when individuals are motivated and thus psychologically anticipate achieving mobility. In two studies, we looked at Portuguese immigrants in Switzerland (Ns = 180 and 241) at three mobility stages, that is, (1) Swiss naturalized Portuguese immigrants (socially mobile), (2) non-naturalized Portuguese who strongly wished to be naturalized (high anticipators), and (3) those who wished it less (low anticipators). First, we hypothesized a progressive assimilation to (distancing from) the Swiss (Portuguese) identity and culture (from the low anticipators to the high anticipators to the mobile). As expected, .... https://spb.psychopen.eu/index.php/spb/article/view/9465

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• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Extent: Online-Ressource
• Language: Englisch

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• Bibliographic citation: Anticipated and Achieved Individual Mobility Amongst Portuguese Immigrants in Switzerland: Social Identity Adjustment and Inter-Minority Relations ; volume:19 ; day:20 ; month:03 ; year:2024 ; Social psychological bulletin ; 19 (20.03.2024)

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• Creator: Chipeaux, Marion ; Kulich, Clara ; Iacoviello, Vincenzo ; Politi, Emanuele ; Lorenzi-Cioldi, Fabio

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• DOI: 10.32872/spb.9465
• URN: urn:nbn:de:101:1-2404270509222.264338520695
• Rights: Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.