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- Title
Immigration and Receiving Communities: The Utility of Threats and Emotions in Predicting Action Tendencies toward Refugees, Asylum‐Seekers and Economic Migrants.
- Authors
Abeywickrama, R.S.; Laham, S.M.; Crone, D.L.
- Abstract
Traditional accounts of intergroup bias often fail to consider the complexity of intergroup phenomena by insufficiently distinguishing between (a) attitudes, emotions and action tendencies, (b) classes of threat that promote intergroup bias and (c) subtle category distinctions amongst social groups. We develop a nuanced account of antimigrant bias by distinguishing between (a) manifestations of bias in emotions and action tendencies, (b) kinds of threat that drive antimigrant bias, and (c) kinds of migrant groups (economic migrants, refugees, and asylum‐seekers). By employing within‐subjects designs in two prominent migrant‐receiving countries (NAustralia = 239, NUS = 200), we find that two distinct classes of threat emerge: in‐group morality threat and conflict‐related threat. These threats predict specific emotion and action tendency profiles. Our findings carry important implications for the conceptualization of antimigrant bias. We also discuss implications of our findings for facilitating positive relations between receiving communities and migrants via in‐group morality threat.
- Subjects
SOCIAL conditions of refugees; SOCIAL prediction; THREATS; INTERGROUP relations; EMOTIONS -- Social aspects; POLITICAL refugees -- Social conditions; PREJUDICES; SOCIAL conditions of immigrants
- Publication
Journal of Social Issues, 2018, Vol 74, Issue 4, p756
- ISSN
0022-4537
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/josi.12297