Influences of Discriminatory Incidents on Immigrants’ Attitudes Toward German Society

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  • Jan Döring

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https://doi.org/10.4119/ijcv-2756

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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.

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Published

2007-01-18

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Döring, J. (2007). Influences of Discriminatory Incidents on Immigrants’ Attitudes Toward German Society. International Journal of Conflict and Violence (IJCV), 1(1), 19–31. https://doi.org/10.4119/ijcv-2756

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