National identity cards: The impact on the relationship between the police and ethnic minority groups

1998 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 401-424 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adrian Beck ◽  
Kate Broadhurst
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Ethnic Minority ◽  
Minority Groups ◽  
Ethnic Minority Groups ◽  
Identity Cards ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

Why ethnic minority groups’ online-startups are booming in China’s tight cultural ecosystem?

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lifu Li ◽  
Kyeong Kang
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Minority ◽  
Influencing Factors ◽  
Minority Groups ◽  
Cultural Theory ◽  
Cultural Control ◽  
Live Streaming ◽  
Research Model ◽  
Ethnic Minority Groups ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Relationship

Purpose Although most Chinese ethnic minority groups (EMGs) hold conservative thinking to online-startups, the new entrepreneurial model is booming on live streaming platforms. In China’s tight cultural ecosystem, the tight cultural control would lead EMG entrepreneurs to keep conservative thinking and avoid challenging careers. Still, it would be helpful for Chinese Governments to issue systematical entrepreneurial policies and improve online-startup environment for EMGs. To discover the relationships among influencing factors and EMGs’ online-startup motivation, this paper aims to draw on the tight and loose cultural theory and the capability-opportunity-motivation-behaviour (COM-B) behaviour changing theory and establishes the research model based on China’s tight cultural ecosystem. Design/methodology/approach Through analysing 617 questionnaires from 37 EMGs based on the partial least squares path modelling and variance-based structural equation modelling method, the study proves that environmental opportunity factors and personal capability factors have positive impacts on EMGs’ online-startup motivation and EMGs’ conservative thinking negatively moderates the relationship between their online-startup motivation and entrepreneurial development behaviour. In addition to testing the hypotheses, the paper also measures the importance-performance map analysis to explore additional findings of influencing factors and provide suitable suggestions for EMG entrepreneurs and related departments. Findings Regarding the environmental opportunity unit, both policy support and platform support significantly impact Chinese EMGs’ motivation to promote online-startups. For the personal capability unit, a platform using skills positively influences Chinese EMGs to develop online-startups. Meanwhile, EMG cultural knowledge is also necessary for EMG entrepreneurs because abundant cultural resources can be applied to live content and attract online consumers’ watching interests. Furthermore, influenced by the tight cultural control, Chinese EMGs tend to hold conservative thinking to new careers and it negatively moderates the relationship between Chinese EMGs’ online-startup motivation and their final entrepreneurial behaviours. Finally, Chinese EMGs’ online-startup motivation positively affects them to develop online-startups on live streaming platforms. Originality/value This study uses the tight and loose cultural theory to analyse the Chinese entrepreneurial environment and discover influencing factors based on the tight cultural ecosystem. Meanwhile, based on the COM-B behaviour changing theory, this paper divides influencing factors into three different units, including the environmental opportunity unit, the personal capability unit and the Tight cultural control unit. Considering the inter-relationships among these units, the research model is established based on the tight cultural ecosystem to discover Chinese EMGs’ online-startup motivation.

Persistence or Change? Conflicting Interpretations of Peripheral Minorities

1986 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-70 ◽  
Author(s):  
D Sibley
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Ethnic Minority ◽  
Minority Groups ◽  
Ethnic Minority Groups ◽  
The Relationship

In studies of the relationship between peripheral ethnic minority groups and the larger society in industrialised societies, it is commonly assumed that the minority is in the process of assimilation or is becoming economically dependent, A number of theoretical arguments on the nature of change are reviewed. The case of Gypsy communities in Europe and North America is used to demonstrate the inappropriateness of theories that predict a transformation of the minority group's culture—a picture of continuity and persistence appears more reasonable in the light of historical and fieldwork evidence.

FC20-04 -’Who is on my side?’ - qualitative analysis of ethnic minorities experiences of mental health related stigma and discrimination

2011 ◽  
Vol 26 (S2) ◽  
pp. 1924-1924
Author(s):  
G. Shefer ◽  
C. Henderson ◽  
D. Rose ◽  
S. Evans-Lacko
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Illness ◽  
Ethnic Minority ◽  
Minority Groups ◽  
List Type ◽  
Service Users ◽  
Ethnic Minority Groups ◽  
Minority Communities ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The Impact

IntroductionThe Time to Change (TTC) anti-stigma campaign, launched in January 2009 in England, intends to make fundamental improvements across England in: public knowledge, attitudes and discriminatory behaviour in relation to people with mental illness. To be effective and valid the campaign must reach a wide range of diverse audiences. This study explores attitudes of people from ethnic minority communities in relation to mental health.ObjectivesThe study investigates:1)General attitudes and perceptions about mental illness in ethnic minority communities2)How we might increase awareness about mental wellbeing and decrease stigma in ethnic minority communities.MethodsTen focus groups with members of ethnic minority groups were conducted. Five groups consisted of service users and five were composed of non-service users. Two groups comprised participants from an Indian origin, two Somali origin, two Afro-Caribbean origin and the other groups were mixed.ResultsWe will present findings regarding the ways in which traditional perceptions of mental health and personal experiences of ethnic minority service users affect their perceptions of sources of support such as family, friends, medical staff and religion and how this feedback could inform ant-stigma interventions.ConclusionThe study suggests that in order to maximise the impact of anti-stigma campaigns, attention should be given to sources of discrimination and traditional perceptions of mental illness which are emphasised by ethnic minority groups. When planning anti-stigma campaigns it is important to incorporate experiences and perceptions from a wide range of audiences.

scholarly journals Understanding the excess psychosis risk in ethnic minorities: the impact of structure and identity

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hannah E. Jongsma ◽  
Saffron Karlsen ◽  
James B. Kirkbride ◽  
Peter B. Jones
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Minority ◽  
Ethnic Minorities ◽  
Psychotic Disorders ◽  
Minority Groups ◽  
Empirical Literature ◽  
Ethnic Minority Groups ◽  
The Social ◽  
Psychosis Risk ◽  
Identity Based ◽  
The Impact

Abstract Purpose Psychotic disorders, which are associated with substantially increased morbidity and mortality, are up to five times more common in some ethnic minority groups compared with the white majority in Western countries. This long-standing and well-replicated public mental health disparity has hitherto largely eluded adequate explanation. We argue that this might have arisen in part due to the lack of attention given to theoretical work characterising the complex and multidimensional social nature of ethnicity by those epidemiological investigations that have dominated the literature. Methods To bridge this gap, we draw on theoretical and empirical literature from across the social sciences considering the ontological significance of ethnicity (as biology, migration, racialised structures and identity) and its relationships with psychotic disorders to illuminate probable drivers of excess psychosis risk. Results The largest gains in our theoretical understanding of excess psychosis risk among ethnic minority groups are to be made by considering ethnicity in relation to disempowerment resulting from structural and identity-based exclusion. The former is readily studied through the social gradient in health: socioeconomic disadvantage clusters in some ethnic minorities and increases the risk of poor health outcomes, including psychosis. Furthermore, limitations on identity acquisition and expression imposed by the ethnic majority can further contribute to alienate ethnic minorities and increase psychosocial disempowerment (a lack of control over one’s life). Conclusion We theorise that structural and identity-based exclusion act as the primary drivers shaping variation in rates of psychotic disorder by ethnic minority status.

Comparative Nation Building across the Borderland Area

2019 ◽  
pp. 118-136
Author(s):  
Enze Han
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Ethnic Minority ◽  
Ethnic Minorities ◽  
Minority Groups ◽  
Nation Building ◽  
Ethnic Minority Groups ◽  
Nationalist Movements ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
Better Than

Chapter 7 analyzes how the different nationalist ideologies in these three countries have affected the politics of national identity among various ethnic minority groups living along the borders. It examines nation-building ideologies and policies in China, Myanmar, and Thailand, then examines how close ethnic linkages between the Shan and Thai manifest in Thailand’s interest in supporting Shan nationalist movements as part of its pan-Tai sentiment. The chapter then compares the implications of different nationalist ideologies and practices on common cross-border ethnic minorities between China and Myanmar. For many ethnic minority groups across the border, China is often perceived as a place where ethnic minorities are treated better than in Myanmar. Relative depravation in Myanmar explains this perception very well.

Ethnic and Transnational Dimensions of Recent Protestant Conversion among the Hmong in Northern Vietnam

2010 ◽  
Vol 57 (3) ◽  
pp. 332-344 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thị Thanh Tâm Ngô
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Minority ◽  
Minority Groups ◽  
Ethnic Minority Groups ◽  
World Religions ◽  
Northern Vietnam ◽  
The Impact

The author argues that ethnic and transnational dimensions are crucial to an understanding of the conversion of the Hmong to Protestantism in Northern Vietnam. Although a number of scholars have proposed that the study of religion be incorporated into the study of transnationalism, the “transnationalization” of religion is still rather understudied, and there have been few scholarly efforts to analyze the transnational aspects of the conversions to world religions of marginalized ethnic minority groups in countries with high levels of emigration. The author examines the transnationalization of religion via the case of the Hmong conversion to show that the impact of missionization is twofold, as not only does the habitus of the Hmong in Vietnam change through massive conversion but so also does the subjectivity of the Hmong missionaries. She proposes to conceptualize the evangelical mission of the Hmong diasporas in Vietnam in particular and in Asia in general as a form of “remittance of faith and modernity”.

scholarly journals Racism, psychosis and common mental disorder among ethnic minority groups in England

2005 ◽  
Vol 35 (12) ◽  
pp. 1795-1803 ◽  
Author(s):  
SAFFRON KARLSEN ◽  
JAMES Y. NAZROO ◽  
KWAME McKENZIE ◽  
KAMALDEEP BHUI ◽  
SCOTT WEICH
Keyword(s):  
Mental Disorder ◽  
Ethnic Minority ◽  
Minority Groups ◽  
Common Mental Disorder ◽  
Economic Status ◽  
Community Sample ◽  
Ethnic Minority Groups ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Gender Groups ◽  
The Relationship

Background. The aim of this study was to explore the relationship between risk of psychosis, common mental disorder (CMD) and indicators of racism among ethnic minority groups in England and how this relationship may vary by particular ethnic groups.Method. A multivariate analysis was carried out of quantitative, cross-sectional data from a nationally representative community sample of people aged between 16 and 74 years from the largest ethnic minority groups in England: those of Caribbean, Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi and Irish origin.Results. Experience of interpersonal racism and perceiving racism in the wider society each have independent effects on the risk of CMD and psychosis, after controlling for the effects of gender, age and socio-economic status. There was some variation in the findings when they were conducted for separate ethnic and gender groups.Conclusions. An understanding of the relationship between racism and mental health may go some way towards explaining the ethnic variations found in both CMD and, particularly, psychosis.

scholarly journals Regional and Ethnic Minorities

2020 ◽  
pp. 210-227
Author(s):  
Didier Ruedin
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Minority ◽  
Ethnic Minorities ◽  
Minority Groups ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Ethnic Minority Groups ◽  
Substantive Representation ◽  
Guiding Principle ◽  
The Relationship

While members of regional and ethnic minorities can reach the highest echelons of power, in most contexts they remain politically marginalized and under-represented in formal politics. The heterogeneity of regional and ethnic minority groups creates a challenge for the study of representation if one wants to avoid the traps of essentialism and unrealistic assumptions. The inclusion of regional and ethnic minorities in legislatures and government can increase trust, alleviate conflict, and provide substantive representation. Much evidence shows that, on average, representatives of regional and ethnic minorities work in the name of their respective groups, especially in ‘low-cost’ activities like asking parliamentary questions. Such substantive representation should be the guiding principle, but the relationship between descriptive and substantive representation seems moderated by the context in which legislators operate.

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