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      The Role of Identity Transformations in Comparative Victim Beliefs? Evidence From South Sudanese Diaspora

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      Journal of Social and Political Psychology
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      social identity transformation, comparative victim beliefs, collective victimhood, intergroup conflict, diaspora, South Sudanese

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          There has been a growing interest in the study on collective victimhood and this research has increased our knowledge on how victim groups construe their victimization relative to other groups. However, most of this research has assumed that the groups involved in these construals were pre-existing prior to the conflict and remained fixed during and after the conflict. This study aimed to examine how conflict facilitates the transformation of social identities (i.e., how ingroups and outgroups are construed) and how these transformed social identities are used by group members in their construals of comparative victim beliefs. Eighteen South Sudanese immigrants were interviewed about their experiences during the Sudan civil wars. Thematic analysis revealed two broader themes: “1) “who is ‘us’ versus ‘them’?” (i.e., identity transformation in light of collective victimization and privilege; 2) “what happened to us?” (i.e., construal of ingroup victimization relative to other groups). These findings demonstrate the complexity in how immigrant groups construe social identities constructed in the context of intergroup conflicts, and how these transformed identities are then used in their construals of collective victimhood.

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              An organizing framework for collective identity: articulation and significance of multidimensionality.

              The authors offer a framework for conceptualizing collective identity that aims to clarify and make distinctions among dimensions of identification that have not always been clearly articulated. Elements of collective identification included in this framework are self-categorization, evaluation, importance, attachment and sense of interdependence, social embeddedness, behavioral involvement, and content and meaning. For each element, the authors take note of different labels that have been used to identify what appear to be conceptually equivalent constructs, provide examples of studies that illustrate the concept, and suggest measurement approaches. Further, they discuss the potential links between elements and outcomes and how context moderates these relationships. The authors illustrate the utility of the multidimensional organizing framework by analyzing the different configuration of elements in 4 major theories of identification.
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                Journal
                JSPP
                J Soc Polit Psych
                Journal of Social and Political Psychology
                J. Soc. Polit. Psych.
                PsychOpen
                2195-3325
                18 December 2019
                2019
                : 7
                : 2
                : 1021-1043
                Affiliations
                [a ]Department of Psychology, Clark University , Worcester, MA, USA
                [2]University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
                Author notes
                [* ]Department of Psychology, Clark University, 950 Main Street, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA. MTwali@ 123456clarku.edu
                Article
                jspp.v7i2.865
                10.5964/jspp.v7i2.865
                0b1c387e-80dd-42f9-9f07-29d6c3cbe362
                Copyright @ 2019

                This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) 4.0 License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

                History
                : 01 October 2017
                : 12 July 2019
                Categories
                Special Thematic Section on "Multiple Perspectives in Conflict Settings: From Diversity to Pluralism"

                Psychology
                diaspora,intergroup conflict,collective victimhood,South Sudanese,comparative victim beliefs,social identity transformation

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