Victoria Tan

In short: Chinese Canadians moved away from the Conservatives, which I argue is in response to the party's exclusionary image. However, ESEAs did not, despite shared racialization as Asian. Hence, group-specific racist rhetoric can weaken potential for panethnic linked fate & thus solidarity.

How Xenophobia Shapes Political Party Support: Evidence from COVID-19 in Canada - Race and Social Problems Racialized or ethnically marginalized groups typically have strong loyalties to particular political parties, but can these group loyalties be undermined? In this paper, I investigate whether racist b...

⭐️ Super excited to share that my first PhD paper is out now in Race and Social Problems (open access)!
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I examine whether COVID-19 related anti-Asian racism affected political party support among Chinese, East/Southeast Asian (ESEA), and South Asian Canadians: