Effects of refugees’ perceived forcedness, dehumanizing media portrayals, and perceived control on attitudes towards refugee integration in Canada and Germany.

难民感知到的强迫、非人性的媒体描述以及感知到的控制对加拿大和德国难民融入态度的影响。

• 批准号: 426969512
• 负责人: Dr. Judith Knausenberger
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Western University
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Fellowships
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 德国
• 起止时间: 2018-12-31 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/426969512?language=en
• 关键词: Effects; refugees; perceived; forcedness; dehumanizing

In this project, I want to examine the effect of the perceived forcedness of refugees and dehumanizing media portrayals on the attitude towards refugee integration in Canada and German.Both Germany and Canada took in a large number of refugees in the past few years. These countries allow for an interesting comparison in attitudes towards refugee integration because of relevant differences in policies regarding refugees. In Canada, more refugees come to the country via the UNHCR refugee resettlement program and more people act as private sponsors for refugees than in Germany. Both aspects should lead to a higher perception of control over which refugees come to Canada compared to the perception of control in Germany. The perception of how strongly refugees were forced to leave their home country should also influence residents' perception of control over which refugees come to their country and also residents' perception how much control refugees themselves have about their current situation. Also dehumanizing media portrayals of refugees, e.g. by using words like "refugee wave" or "stream of refugees" should have a negative impact on residents' perceived control over the accomodation of refugees.Thus, I want to conduct two studies Canada and Germany in which I want to examine whether the factors "perceived forcedness of refugees" and "dehumanizing media portrayals" affect residents' perceived control differently in these two countries and how this in turn affects the attitude towards refugee integration.In the first study, I want to examine students in the laboratory in order to measure both explicit and implicit attitudes towards refugee integration and helping intentions towards refugees. In a second study, a more representative sample shall be examined online in order to replicate the results regarding the explicit attitudes in a non-student sample.I want to conduct this research at the Western University in London, Ontario in Canada because this gives me the opportunity to cooperate with Prof. Dr. Victoria Esses who is an outstanding expert in social psychological migration research. Victoria Esses is the director of the Western Centre for Research on Migration and Ethnic Relations and has conducted research on attitudes towards immigrants and immigration for over 20 years. Conducting this research in Canada also allows for the measurement of implicit attitudes in a laboratory with a Canadian sample.

在这个项目中，我想研究感知难民的力量和非人性化的媒体描绘对加拿大和德国对难民融合的态度的影响。过去几年，德国和加拿大都接收了大量难民。由于有关难民的政策存在相关差异，这些国家对难民融入社会的态度可以进行有趣的比较。在加拿大，与德国相比，更多的难民通过联合国难民事务高级专员办事处（UNHCR）的难民重新安置计划来到加拿大，更多的人充当难民的私人赞助人。与德国相比，这两个方面都应该导致对来到加拿大的难民的控制感更高。对难民被迫离开本国的强烈程度的看法，也应该影响居民对哪些难民来到自己国家的控制程度的看法，以及居民对难民自己对现状的控制程度的看法。此外，媒体对难民的非人性化描述，例如使用“难民潮”或“难民流”等词语，应该会对居民对难民住宿的感知控制产生负面影响。因此，我想对加拿大和德国进行两项研究，在这两项研究中，我想研究“感知难民的力量”和“非人性化的媒体描绘”因素是否会对这两个国家的居民感知控制产生不同的影响，以及这反过来如何影响对难民融合的态度。在第一个研究中，我想在实验室里检查学生，以衡量对难民融合的显性和隐性态度以及对难民的帮助意图。在第二项研究中，将在线检查更具代表性的样本，以复制非学生样本中关于显性态度的结果。我想在加拿大安大略省伦敦的西部大学进行这项研究，因为这让我有机会与维多利亚博士教授合作，她是社会心理迁移研究方面的杰出专家。维多利亚·塞斯是西方移民和种族关系研究中心的主任，她对移民和移民的态度进行了20多年的研究。在加拿大进行的这项研究也允许在实验室用加拿大样本测量内隐态度。