Millie Creighton

Biographic Data

ID87624
NAMEMillie Creighton
GIVEN NAMESMillie
FAMILY NAMECreighton
SIGNATURECREIGHTON M
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of British Columbia
ORCID0000-0002-1596-6049
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS65
TOTAL CITATIONS342
AUTHOR COUNT65
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1978
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX10

  • Family support for digital divide among older people: Contact and proximity

    Open AccessXing Jiang, Millie Creighton et al.ARTICLEEducational Gerontology2026

    The digital divide remains a significant barrier to social participation and well-being among older people. This study investigates the impact of family and intergenerational support on the digital divide (internet use and digital skills) in older people during the COVID-19 pandemic. Using the Survey of Health, Aging and Retirement in Europe Wave 8 data (N = 6,374), we employ generalized linear models and multinomial logistic regression to analyz…

  • A paradox of perception: Autonomy, work, and ICT in Europe

    Open AccessEbru Işıklı, Millie Creighton et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of Sociology2026References: 4

    Information and Communication Technology (ICT) enhance flexibility but blurs work–life boundaries—a phenomenon termed the “autonomy paradox.” Using the European Social Survey Round 10, we investigate how communication patterns, job demands, and resources shape employee perceptions of ICT, which we categorise as positive, negative, or paradoxical. We ask whether positive attitudes reflect genuinely supportive working conditions ormask strain. Our …

  • Does social embeddedness shape attitudes toward migrants? Evidence from a survey experiment in the United Kingdom

    Open AccessA Igarashi, Millie CreightonARTICLESocial Forces2025Cited by: 1References: 67

    How does migrants' social embeddedness influence non-migrants' attitudes? Although research on intergroup relations has considered the effects of various dimensions of migrants' lives, often measured by economic and cultural traits, social embeddedness, defined by the composition of interpersonal relationships, has received relatively less attention. We consider two types of social embeddedness and hypothesize that non-migrants will positively vi…

  • Ryokan: Mobilizing Hospitality in Rural Japan

    Open AccessMillie CreightonARTICLESocial Science Japan Journal2024

    Journal Article Ryokan: Mobilizing Hospitality in Rural Japan Get access Ryokan: Mobilizing Hospitality in Rural Japan by Chris McMorranHonolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2022, 220 pp., $80.00 cloth (ISBN 978-0-8248-8897-8) Millie CREIGHTON Millie CREIGHTON University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Science Japan Journal, jyae001…

  • Who is the majority group? Signaling majority group membership with name-based treatments in multilingual contexts: The case of Catalonia

    Open AccessMariña Fernández-Reino, Millie Creighton et al.ARTICLESocial Science Research2024References: 63

  • Educational Mobility and Attitudes Towards Migration from an International Comparative Perspective

    Open AccessMillie Creighton, Daniel Capistrano et al.ARTICLEJournal of International…2023

    This work considers the role of intergenerational educational mobility in shaping attitudes towards immigration. Two substantive questions drive this work. First, does the experience of stagnant or downward educational mobility result in negative attitudes towards immigration? Second, are perceptions of immigration shaped by the relative importance of parental (i.e. origin) and one’s own (i.e. destination) level of education? We deploy six waves …

  • I Guess We are from Very Different Backgrounds: Attitudes Towards Social Justice and Intergenerational Educational Mobility in European Societies

    Open AccessDaniel Capistrano, Millie Creighton et al.ARTICLESocial Indicators Research2023Cited by: 1References: 12

  • Transnational giving between Shikoku, Japan and Burma/ Myanmar: From memorializing One's dead to humanitarianism with peace and war reflections

    Open AccessMillie CreightonARTICLEEthnography2023References: 13

    Bagan, Myanmar (formerly Burma) is famous for its over 2200 Buddhist temples. People contribute to these temples as charitable work, to fulfill social or sacred obligations, or show they are "good Buddhists". In World War II Japan's military government sent Shikoku youth to South East Asia, including Burma, where over 6000 died. Following WWII, Shikoku groups sent funds to Burma to memorialize their dead. Thus began over 70 years of transnational…

  • Immigration, Identity, and Anonymity: Intentionally Masked Intolerance in Ireland

    Open AccessMillie Creighton, Éamonn Fahey et al.ARTICLEInternational Migration Review2022Cited by: 4References: 80

    Newcomers to Ireland confront a context of reception shaped by large-scale historical emigration and more recent immigration defined by an increasingly diverse set of origin contexts, both within and outside the European Union (EU). How has the Irish population responded to these groups, and how openly do Irish residents express their views toward different immigrant groups? We test this response using a survey experiment, which offered responden…

  • Austerity, Short-term Economic Recovery and Public Perception of Immigration in Ireland

    Open AccessMillie Creighton, Egle Gusciute et al.ARTICLESociety2022References: 38

    The economic crisis of 2007/2008 did not affect all members of the European Union (EU) to the same extent. In the Irish case, the economic crisis and subsequent period of austerity paralleled an erosion in public support for immigration. However, little is known about how public perception changed during a period of short-term economic recovery, like that experienced in Ireland from 2014 to 2018. Using repeated cross-sectional survey data unique …

  • An overstated welcome: Brexit and intentionally masked anti-immigrant sentiment in the UK

    Millie Creighton, Mathew J Creighton et al.ARTICLENew Community2022Cited by: 12References: 78

    Research and evidence suggest that the expression of targeted intolerance increasingly manifests in subtle ways. Innovative work on colour-blind racism and unconscious bias underlines the unacknowledged ways that prejudicial attitudes are perpetuated/emerge without being overtly expressed. Building upon this work, we identify an additional dimension of intolerance defined by the intentional masking of anti-immigrant sentiment directed at immigran…

  • Keeping Secrets from Ourselves: Understanding Self-deception Through Theory, Evidence and Application

    Open AccessMillie CreightonARTICLESecrecy and Society2021

    Self-deception is a difficult concept to share with students. Although few students find it implausible that they are capable of keeping secrets from themselves, the social theory, application, and practical demonstration of self-deception is far from straightforward. This work offers a three-step approach to teach a theoretically-grounded, evidence-based, and application-reinforced understanding of self-deception. Rooted in work on identity by M…

  • Creating Connected Identities Among Japanese Company Employees: Learning to be Members of Department Store Work Communities

    Millie CreightonARTICLECulture2021References: 14

    This paper looks at the meanings, values, and idioms associated with work for members of Japanese permanent employment jobs in a sector of society where this has not previously been well explored - large-retailing organizations. It discusses the boundary markers that distinguish members from outsiders and marginals, and explains the ambiguous identities of part-timers and "helper clerks." The initial year in a Japanese permanent employment job is…

  • Party affiliation and support for Muslim newcomers: Masked opposition in the Norwegian context

    Open AccessMillie Creighton, Zan StrabacARTICLEEuropean Societies2020Cited by: 3References: 28

    This work considers how anti-immigrant sentiment is selectively revealed, offering a new perspective on the role stigma plays in defining the political mainstream. By way of a survey experiment in Norway, we measure the gap between what people express and the beliefs they hold anonymously, assessing how supporters of distinct political parties situationally conform to expectations about the expression of intolerance. Using three frames, we contra…

  • The healthy immigrant effect: A Test of Competing Explanations in a Low Income Population

    Russell K Schutt, Manan M Nayak et al.ARTICLEHealth Sociology Review2019References: 71

    Evidence in support of the healthy immigrant effect (HIE) has been mixed and explanations for it divergent. Research on the HIE is reviewed and seven explanatory hypotheses are presented. Support for these hypotheses is evaluated with data collected in a phone survey of patients in a Massachusetts public health program for economically disadvantaged persons. Variation in physical health, depression, and smoking reflect the HIE, but the explanatio…

  • Are Racial and Educational Inequities in Mass Incarceration Perceived to be a Social Problem? Results from an Experiment

    Open AccessMillie Creighton, Kevin H WozniakARTICLESocial Problems2019Cited by: 4References: 50

    The disproportionate incarceration of certain groups, racial minorities, and the less educated constitutes a social problem from the perspective of both policy makers and researchers. One aspect that is poorly understood is whether the public is similarly concerned about inequities in mass incarceration. Using a list experiment embedded in a framing experiment, we test for differences in attitudes towards mass incarceration by exploring three fra…

  • Legacies matter: Reflections on the SAI’s 45th annual conference

    Open AccessMillie Creighton, Mathew J CreightonARTICLEIrish Journal of Sociology2018

  • Sibling position, gender, and family networks in Mexican and Senegalese migration

    Open AccessMao‐mei Liu, Fernando Riosmena et al.ARTICLEPopulation Space and Place2018Cited by: 2References: 26

    This paper examines the gendered roles of sibling position and network‐derived social capital in Mexican and Senegalese international migration. We investigate how men's and women's migration decisions are associated with their position within the nuclear family before and after accounting for nuclear family migrant networks. Crucially, we also estimate how sibling network “effects” are gendered. We analyse 2 comparable household surveys in very …

  • Race, Wealth and the Masking of Opposition to Immigrants in the Netherlands

    Open AccessMillie Creighton, Peter Schmidt et al.ARTICLEInternational Migration2018Cited by: 8References: 23

    This work uses a list experiment to directly test for differences in attitudes towards poor, racially different and racially similar immigrants to the Netherlands in terms of (1) overt support and (2) covert support and (3) the difference between the two (i.e., social desirability bias). Results show that the expression of opposition to immigrants is significantly masked, suggesting that anonymous acts (e.g., voting) could capture greater opposit…

  • Public Opinion and the Shaping of Immigration Policy in the European Council of Ministers

    Open AccessJavier Arregui, Millie Creighton et al.ARTICLEJCMS Journal of Common Market…2018Cited by: 4References: 33

    Do EU citizens’ preferences shape EU immigration policy? Using mixed‐methods and a unique data source on policy‐making in the EU Council of Ministers, we qualitatively and quantitatively assess the link between public sentiment and immigration policy‐making. Accounting for the economic, political and institutional context, we find that domestic public opinion does not play a central role in the policy positions adopted by Member States nor in the…

  • What's left unsaid? In-group solidarity and ethnic and racial differences in opposition to immigration in the United States

    Alessandra Bazo Vienrich, Millie Creighton et al.ARTICLENew Community2018Cited by: 7References: 48

    Do racial and ethnic characteristics of non-immigrants play an important role in shaping attitudes toward immigrants in the U.S.? Using a 2010 survey experiment representative of the U.S. general population, this paper examines differences in opposition to immigration by the race or ethnicity of the respondent. By manipulating the amount of anonymity offered to respondents, the experiment allows explicit opposition to be distinguished from implic…

  • A tree house in Tokyo: Reflections on Nikkei, citizenship, belonging, architecture, and art on the 75th anniversary of Japanese American and Japanese Canadian internment

    Millie CreightonARTICLEContemporary Japan2017References: 3

    This think piece discusses the continuing influence of Japanese American and Japanese Canadian internment, which commenced 75 years ago in 1942 and also affected Nikkei from 13 Latin American countries. Contextualizing the Canadian case, the essay explores the lives of Raymond Moriyama, a Nikkei architect interned despite his Canadian birth and citizenship, and William Allister, a White Canadian Prisoner of War (POW) of Japan, and their mutual at…

  • Ethnic Inequality in Mexican Education

    Millie Creighton, Mathew J Creighton et al.ARTICLESocial Forces2016

    Since the emergence of Mexico’s secretariat for public education following the revolution (1910–1920), reducing indigenous inequality in educational mobility has been a state objective. Recently, findings have been mixed, with some finding that indigeneity no longer limits educational mobility and others showing evidence of persistent in equality net of socioeconomic background. We draw from modernization theory and the theory of Maximally Mainta…

  • Prominence and exclusivity: Identity and opposition to immigration in a multinational context

    Millie Creighton, Mathew J CreightonARTICLENew Community2016Cited by: 2References: 64

    Using a framework derived from Identity Theory, this work focuses on the extent to which attitudes towards immigration are structured by the prominence and exclusivity of national identity. Prominence refers to the value of an identity relative to others. Exclusivity is when the prominence of a single identity negates all other comparable identities. Prominence and exclusivity are relevant for understanding attitudes towards immigration in that t…

  • Prospects for the comparative study of international migration using quasi-longitudinal micro-data

    Open AccessMao‐mei Liu, Mao-Mei Liu et al.ARTICLEDemographic Research2016Cited by: 4References: 76

    BACKGROUND: Longitudinal micro-level data about international migration behavior are notoriously difficult to collect, but data collection efforts have become more frequent in recent years. Comparative research of the patterns and processes of international migration, however, remains quite rare, especially that which compares across regions. OBJECTIVE: We highlight the promises and difficulties of comparative international migration research, by…