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When minority youth shape majority friends’ perspective on unfair treatment: maintaining intergroup friendship without distancing oneself from the ingroup

par Kende, Judit;Gagliolo, Matteo ;Delvaux, Ellen;Van Laar, Colette;Phalet, Karen
Référence Belgian Network Research Meeting (5th: 2015-09-30: Namur)
Publication Non publié, 2015-09-30

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Minority and majority youth have many opportunities to forge intergroup friendships in today’s diverse schools. For minority youth though, intergroup friendship comes with possible downsides: positive contact may result in denying unfair treatment in generally unequal intergroup relations, and in distancing themselves from the ingroup (Dixon, Tropp, Durrheim, & Tredoux, 2010; Tropp, Hawi, Van Laar, & Levin, 2012) . However, when minority members maintain friendships with majority members who acknowledge the inequalities, minority members are just as likely to strongly identify with their ingroup and intensely feel about unfair treatment (Becker, Wright, Lubensky, & Zhou, 2013). Against this background, our research proposal focuses on 1265 devalued Turkish and Moroccan minority youth in 70 ethnically diverse secondary schools in Flanders (Belgium). Instead of looking at how friendship affects minority members when their majority friends already acknowledge inequality, we present a proposal that looks at minority youth’s role as active agents shaping their intergroup friends’ perspective on unfair treatment : in study 1 we will use longitudinal network analysis to investigate whether some minority youth influence their majority friends to acknowledge inequalities, while in study 2 we will look at school contexts that facilitate forging friendships where minority youth influence their majority friends.