Dual Identities and Their Recognition: Minority Group Members' Perspectives

作者：Hopkins Nick^*

来源：Political Psychology, 2011, 32(2): 251-270.

DOI：10.1111/j.1467-9221.2010.00804.x

• Dual identities
• British Muslims
• diversity
• recognition

Minorities may define themselves at a superordinate (e.g., national) level and also at a subgroup (minority) level. However, others' recognition of such dual identifications cannot be guaranteed. This paper investigates how members of a minority (Muslims in the UK) constructed their superordinate and subgroup identities in such a way as to assert a commonality with British non-Muslims whilst asserting their religious subgroup's distinctiveness. Reporting qualitative data obtained through interviews (N = 28), the analysis explores how British Muslims negotiated concerns over commonality and distinctiveness through describing themselves as being British in a Muslim way. The implications of these self-definitions for the theorization of dual identities, their recognition, and intergroup relations are discussed.

• 出版日期2011-4