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CANADIAN JOURNAL OF POLITICAL SCIENCE-REVUE CANADIENNE DE SCIENCE POLITIQUE
Volume 55, Issue 3, Pages 537-560Publisher
CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1017/S0008423922000403
Keywords
nationalism; immigrants; national minorities; membership; political claims-making
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- Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR)
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This article examines whether certain groups are seen as less entitled to engage in political claims-making. The study finds that immigrants, French-speaking Quebeckers, and Indigenous peoples are judged more harshly and are perceived as not committed members of the larger political community.
Previous research has shown that the public tends to see some groups as less deserving of social rights. Our focus in this article is whether they are also seen as less entitled to engage in political claims-making. Recent theorists of inclusive nationalism argue that whether minorities are seen as having the right to codetermine the future may depend on whether the majority believes minorities are morally committed to the nation. Drawing on a unique survey experiment, we test this intuition by analyzing how majority perceptions of a minority's commitment to the larger society influence support for claims-making by immigrants and national minorities. We show that immigrants, French-speaking Quebeckers, and Indigenous peoples are judged more harshly about their right to make claims and that this is in part explained by the majority's views that these groups are not, in fact, committed members of the larger political community.
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