Profiling racial prejudice during COVID-19 : Who exhibits anti-Asian sentiment in Australia and the United States?

© 2021 Australian Social Policy Association..

Following the COVID-19 outbreak, anti-Asian racism increased around the world, as exhibited through greater instances of abuse and hate crimes. To better understand the scale of anti-Asian racism and the characteristics of people who may be expressing racial prejudice, we sampled respondents in Australia and the United States over 31 August-9 September 2020 (1375 Australians and 1060 Americans aged 18 or above; source YouGov). To address potential social desirability bias, we use both direct and indirect (list experiment) questions to measure anti-Asian sentiment and link these variables to key socioeconomic factors. We find that, instead of being universal among general populations, anti-Asian sentiment is patterned differently across both country contexts and socioeconomic groups. In the United States, the most significant predictor of anti-Asian bias is political affiliation. By contrast, in Australia, anti-Asian bias is closely linked to a wide range of socioeconomic factors including political affiliation, age, gender, employment status and income.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2021

Erschienen:

2021

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:56

Enthalten in:

The Australian journal of social issues - 56(2021), 4 vom: 31. Dez., Seite 464-484

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Tan, Xiao [VerfasserIn]
Lee, Rennie [VerfasserIn]
Ruppanner, Leah [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Anti‐Asian
Anti‐Chinese
COVID‐19
Journal Article
List experiment
Racism

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Date Revised 04.04.2024

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

doi:

10.1002/ajs4.176

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM334352223