Migrants, Minorities, Belongings and Citizenship. Glocalization and ...

On the other hand, “participation in essentialized spaces versus glocal spaces” is also
associated negatively with the dependent variable. This means that increased
“participation in essentialized spaces” is associated with decreased “mobility of mind”,
whereas increased “participation in glocal spaces” is associated with an increased
mobility of mind. Therefore, the higher the degree of participation in glocal spaces, the
higher the degree of mobility of mind.
2.2.9. Alignments and misalignments in the public spaces
Alignment/misalignment was measured along two major dimensions. The first dimension
relates to how each channel or public space represents, articulates and voices
respondents’ preferences about general policy issues – such as taxes, salaries,
unemployment, human rights, welfare policies, security, relations with other countries,
etc (a battery comprising 26 items). The second dimension is about how belonging issues
are dealt with in different public spaces – issues such as freedom of belonging to a
group, freedom of expressing different belongings, visibility of different belongings, etc (a
battery comprising 22 items). The respondents were asked to rank the different public
arenas with respect to how they experience these issues are dealt with in each public
space. The two batteries were repeated for each of the four types of public spaces
(numeric, corporate-plural, essentialized, and glocal).
In the following analysis, the intermediate levels of analysis where we summarized these
data are not reported. If it should be mentioned briefly, the summarizing analyses
involved qualitative interpretation, quantification, and factorization. Analyzing and
interpreting each respondents’ responses to the respective questionnaire items, together
with their statements during the in-depth interviews, we ranked
alignments/misalignments between each respondent’s preferences and their perceptions
of the structural/institutional capability of each public channel/space along a 5-point
Likert scale. This resulted in eight summary variables – four measuring (mis)alignment
concerning general policy issues and four measuring (mis)alignment concerning
belonging policy issues. Table 12 illustrates the results from a CATPCA-procedure applied
to these eight variables.
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