- Oxford Library of Psychology
- Oxford Library of Psychology
- Dedication
- About the Editor
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Social Psychology and Social Justice: Critical Principles and Perspectives for the Twenty-First Century
- Social Justice Theory and Practice: Fostering Inclusion in Exclusionary Contexts
- Reconsidering Citizenship Models and the Case for Cultural Citizenship: Implications for a Social Psychology of Social Justice
- Narrative Approaches within a Social Psychology of Social Justice: The Potential Utility of Narrative Evidence
- Extending the Social Psychology of Racism: A Framework for Critical Analysis
- The Ongoing Psychological Colonization of North American Indigenous People: Using Social Psychological Theories to Promote Social Justice
- Disjunctive: Social Injustice, Black Identity, and the Normality of Black People
- Culture, Psychology, and Social Justice: Toward a More Critical Psychology of Asians and Asian Americans
- Intersectional Understandings of Inequality
- “Who is Tossing Whom into the Current”?: A Social Justice Perspective on Gender and Well-Being
- Transnational Feminism in Psychology: Women’s Human Rights, Liberation, and Social Justice
- Benevolent Heterosexism and the “Less-than-Queer” Citizen Subject
- Of “Takers” and “Makers”: A Social Psychological Analysis of Class and Classism
- Social Class Oppression as Social Exclusion: A Relational Perspective
- Colonization, Decolonization, and Power: Ruptures and Critical Junctures Out of Dominance
- Social Psychology and Social Justice: Citizenship and Migrant Identity in the Post 9/11 Era
- Social Justice in Multicultural Europe: A Social Psychological Perspective
- Positioning Theory and Social Justice
- “In the Minds of Men . . .”: Social Representations of War and Military Intervention
- Intergroup Contact in Settings of Protracted Ethnopolitical Conflict
- Intergroup Contact and the Struggle for Social Justice
- Intergroup Dialogue: Education for Social Justice
- Setting the Record “Straight”: Communicating Findings from Social Science Research on Sexual Orientation to the Courts
- Bear Left: The Critical Psychology Project in Revolting Times
- Social Psychology and Social Justice: Dilemmas, Dynamics, and Destinies
- Index
Abstract and Keywords
Informed by Social Representations and Social Identity theories, this chapter argues that investigation of justice issues in multicultural Europe requires focusing on the ideological context in which justice is pursued or obstructed. Following Touraine (2005), it argues that two social representations of societal organization coexist in Europe with different implications for status, values, and justice attribution: one that organizes society and builds hierarchies in terms of merit; and another that organizes society according to cultural differences and to group membership. The use of each representation implies different criteria for distributive and procedural justice and emphasizes conflicts based on different memberships. A representation of society following a cultural order might hide the class membership of migrants and obstruct their individual mobility. Unable to fight in terms of class, migrants’ sole opportunity for seeking justice and equal treatment is to fight collectively by adopting an ethno-cultural or religious identity.
Keywords: multiculturalism, migration, distributive and procedural justice, European nation-states, representations of social order, individual mobility, identity
Xenia Chryssochoou Department of Psychology Panteion University of Social and Political Science Athens, Greece
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- Oxford Library of Psychology
- Oxford Library of Psychology
- Dedication
- About the Editor
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Social Psychology and Social Justice: Critical Principles and Perspectives for the Twenty-First Century
- Social Justice Theory and Practice: Fostering Inclusion in Exclusionary Contexts
- Reconsidering Citizenship Models and the Case for Cultural Citizenship: Implications for a Social Psychology of Social Justice
- Narrative Approaches within a Social Psychology of Social Justice: The Potential Utility of Narrative Evidence
- Extending the Social Psychology of Racism: A Framework for Critical Analysis
- The Ongoing Psychological Colonization of North American Indigenous People: Using Social Psychological Theories to Promote Social Justice
- Disjunctive: Social Injustice, Black Identity, and the Normality of Black People
- Culture, Psychology, and Social Justice: Toward a More Critical Psychology of Asians and Asian Americans
- Intersectional Understandings of Inequality
- “Who is Tossing Whom into the Current”?: A Social Justice Perspective on Gender and Well-Being
- Transnational Feminism in Psychology: Women’s Human Rights, Liberation, and Social Justice
- Benevolent Heterosexism and the “Less-than-Queer” Citizen Subject
- Of “Takers” and “Makers”: A Social Psychological Analysis of Class and Classism
- Social Class Oppression as Social Exclusion: A Relational Perspective
- Colonization, Decolonization, and Power: Ruptures and Critical Junctures Out of Dominance
- Social Psychology and Social Justice: Citizenship and Migrant Identity in the Post 9/11 Era
- Social Justice in Multicultural Europe: A Social Psychological Perspective
- Positioning Theory and Social Justice
- “In the Minds of Men . . .”: Social Representations of War and Military Intervention
- Intergroup Contact in Settings of Protracted Ethnopolitical Conflict
- Intergroup Contact and the Struggle for Social Justice
- Intergroup Dialogue: Education for Social Justice
- Setting the Record “Straight”: Communicating Findings from Social Science Research on Sexual Orientation to the Courts
- Bear Left: The Critical Psychology Project in Revolting Times
- Social Psychology and Social Justice: Dilemmas, Dynamics, and Destinies
- Index
