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Front Psychol. 2021 Feb 05;12:612427. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.612427. eCollection 2021.

How Refugees' Stereotypes Toward Host Society Members Predict Acculturation Orientations: The Role of Perceived Discrimination.

Frontiers in psychology

Sebastian Lutterbach, Andreas Beelmann

Affiliations

  1. Department of Research Synthesis, Intervention and Evaluation, Friedrich Schiller University, Jena, Germany.

PMID: 33613392 PMCID: PMC7893138 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.612427

Abstract

Refugee migration leads to increased diversity in host societies and refugees have to face many stereotyped attitudes in the host society. However, there has been little research on minority group stereotypes toward host society members and how these stereotypes relate to the acculturation-relevant attitudes of refugees in their first phase of acculturation. This study surveyed 783 refugees in Germany who had migrated mostly in the so-called "refugee crisis" between 2015 and 2016. At the time of the survey in 2018, they had been in Germany for an average of 27 months (

Copyright © 2021 Lutterbach and Beelmann.

Keywords: acculturation; discrimination; refugees; shared reality; stereotypes

Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.

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