Influences of Discriminatory Incidents on Immigrants’ Attitudes Toward German Society

Abstract: This article presents findings from a quantitative survey (N = 301) to evaluate the impact discriminatory incidents have on the attitudes of immigrants towards the majority society in Germany.The findings show that there is a strong relationship between experiences of discrimination and a hostile or alienated attitude towards German society. As an attempt to explain this generalization from single incidents to the macro relation between immigrants and autochthonous Germans in general a theory of framing, taken from developments in the field of rational choice theory, is applied. The reasoning is that a generalizing and rather hostile framing in terms of the attitude towards Germans can minimize psychic, emotional and social costs resulting from acts of discrimination. https://www.ijcv.org/index.php/ijcv/article/view/2756

Object Details

• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Extent: Online-Ressource
• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Influences of Discriminatory Incidents on Immigrants’ Attitudes Toward German Society ; volume:1 ; number:1 ; day:18 ; month:01 ; year:2007 ; International journal of conflict and violence ; 1, Heft 1 (18.01.2007)

Contributors, Places and Time

• Creator: Jan Döring

Further information

• DOI: 10.4119/ijcv-2756
• URN: urn:nbn:de:101:1-2020062210292907100832
• Rights: Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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