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Visible, Elected, but Effectively Nominal: Visibility as a Barrier Maintaining the Political Underrepresentation of Britain’s Immigrant Origin Communities
- Source :
- Patrick English
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Abstract
- Ethnic minority groups have been and remain underrepresented in the British political system. However, we know little about how white immigrant origin groups—who share outgroup status based on non-native history, but differ to ethnic minority groups in terms of not having minority status—compare. Further, contemporary representational study also must concern itself with the quality, not just presence, of representation provided. This research therefore longitudinally compares the access to parliamentary roles for ethnic minority, white immigrant, and white British MPs. It finds that visibility of non-native status holds back descriptive representation—based on both appearance and non-British sounding names.
- Subjects :
- 021110 strategic, defence & security studies
White (horse)
Sociology and Political Science
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common
05 social sciences
Immigration
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0211 other engineering and technologies
Ethnic group
Gender studies
02 engineering and technology
0506 political science
Representation (politics)
Politics
Political system
Political science
050602 political science & public administration
Outgroup
Law
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White British
Subjects
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- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Patrick English
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....1132c93a7a75892e570c8a83c84bcf01