“You are too ethnic, you are too national”: Dual identity denial and dual identification

Ethnic minorities tend to develop dual identities and therefore can face identity denials from two groups. We examine in studies the relation between experiences of denial as misgivings or a manifested mistrust one’s group membership both majority minority members. Based on integration threat literature, represents which means that stronger be expected associated with lower (a negative association). In contrast, based enactment expression elicit positive These contrasting hypotheses were examined (Study 1 = 474; Study 2 820) among ethnic Netherlands. The results offer greater support for model illustrate complexities having identity.