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

在这个项目中，我想要检查难民被认为是强迫的和非人性化的媒体描述对加拿大和德国难民融合的态度的影响。在过去的几年里，德国和加拿大都接收了大量难民。由于有关难民的政策不同，这些国家对难民融入社会的态度进行了有趣的比较。在加拿大，更多的难民通过联合国难民事务高级专员公署的难民重新安置计划进入该国，更多的人担任难民的私人赞助人，而不是在德国。与德国的控制相比，这两个方面都应该导致对哪些难民进入加拿大有更高的控制感。对难民被迫离开本国的程度的看法也应该影响居民对哪些难民进入他们的国家的控制的看法，以及居民对难民本身对他们目前情况的控制程度的看法。此外，媒体对难民的非人性化描述，例如使用像“难民潮”或“难民流”这样的词语，应该会对居民对难民收容的感知控制产生负面影响。因此，我想进行加拿大和德国的两项研究，在这两个国家，我想要考察在这两个国家，“难民感知的强迫”和“非人性化的媒体描述”因素是否对这两个国家的居民的感知控制产生不同的影响，以及这如何反过来影响对难民融入的态度。在第一项研究中，我想在实验室对学生进行测试，以测量他们对难民融入和帮助难民的显性和隐性态度。在第二项研究中，一个更具代表性的样本将在网上进行检查，以复制关于非学生样本中显性态度的结果。我想在加拿大安大略省伦敦市的西方大学进行这项研究，因为这让我有机会与社会心理迁移研究方面的杰出专家维多利亚·埃塞斯教授合作。维多利亚·埃塞斯是西方移民和族裔关系研究中心的主任，20多年来一直在研究对移民和移民的态度。在加拿大进行的这项研究也允许在实验室里用加拿大的样本来测量内隐态度。

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.