Immigrant identity conflicts can be framed as nested category structures

Evidence

In the context of individuals who have immigrated to the United States, they are faced with a large superordinate identity (Americans) and also with the subgroup identity that encompasses Americans who share their national heritage (e.g., other individuals who have emigrated from China). Thus, one way of characterizing the immigrant context is in terms of nested categories. Given this view, it is possible to apply an optimal distinctiveness approach to the immigrant context and explore the implications of these hypotheses for predicting the psychological experience of immigrants. — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 743

Categorization

• XREF: Connects the nested-category framing of immigration to the reader’s ingroup/outgroup cognition thread on how Islamophobia and racial identities get structured. — connects to: Static categories only partly explain identity positioning — Mary Bucholtz and Kira Hall, Identity and Interaction: A…, 46
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 743