Understanding transnational political involvement among Senegalese migrants: The role of acculturation preferences and perceived discrimination |
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| Institution: | 1. Section of Urology, Department of Surgery, Medical College of Georgia-Augusta University, Augusta, GA;2. Division of Urology, Department of Surgery, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, ON;3. Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, GA;4. Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, Miami, Fl;5. Georgia Cancer Center, Augusta, GA;6. Department of Urology, State University of New York Upstate, Syracuse, NY;7. Department of Urology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN;1. Division of Pharmacology and Pharmacotherapy, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Helsinki, P.O. Box 56, 00014 Helsinki, Finland;2. Department of Health, National Institute for Health and Welfare, P.O. Box 30, 00271 Helsinki, Finland;3. RTI International, P.O. Box 12194 Research Triangle Park, NC, USA |
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| Abstract: | In political debates, migrants’ political involvement in their countries of origin and successful adaptation to receiving countries are often portrayed as incompatible. We address this concern by examining the links between acculturation preferences, perceived discrimination, and migrants’ transnational political involvement in their country of origin. In line with collective action research, a cross-sectional questionnaire study (N = 84) among Senegalese migrants in Paris (France) and Geneva (Switzerland) examined three pathways to transnational political involvement (motivations and actual behaviour). Perceived discrimination, the grievances pathway, was positively related to both transnational motivations (but only when desire to adopt the receiving culture was low) and political behaviour in Senegal. Desire to adopt the culture of the receiving society as an acculturation preference, the embeddedness pathway, was also positively linked to transnational motivations and political behaviour. Finally, desire to maintain the culture of origin as an acculturation preference—the collective identification pathway—was unrelated to transnational political involvement. These findings underscore the compatibility of transnational political involvement in countries of origin and adaptation to receiving societies. We discuss the pivotal role of political psychology in bringing together acculturation psychology and transnationalism studies. |
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| Keywords: | Transnational political involvement Acculturation strategies Perceived discrimination Collective action Senegal |
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