Economic and Social Attitudes of College Students toward the Integration of Immigrants and Refugees: A Comparative Study from the Czech Republic and the U.S

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Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Economic and Social Attitudes of College Students toward the Integration of Immigrants and Refugees: A Comparative Study from the Czech Republic and the U.S

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

The goal of this paper is to identify the attitudes of college students from economics-related courses in the Czech Republic and the USA concerning the integration of immigrants, including refugees. Issues of immigration currently resonate more in the Czech Republic where a higher percentage of respondents have a very distinct view of it. Czech respondents perceive migrants as a foreign element in society whose values and views they are unable to identify with, and so that make demands for strong assimilation of immigrants, which they simplistically see as one of the possible ways out of the current situation. In contrast, The American respondents’ broader experience with immigration in the United States leads to a much more conciliatory and realistic attitude toward immigrants, which isn’t always entirely positive but which, at the same time, displays a much lesser degree of various unfounded economic and social clichés often associated with migration. The very negative attitudes toward refugees in the Czech Republic, in comparison to the United States, are influenced by the relatively short historical experience with immigration and, at the present time, also by the very negative media image of an uncontrolled refugee crisis in Europe and also by insufficient awareness about the problem of migration and asylum in general, where, for the most part, these themes have not been a component of education in Czech high schools or even at college.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Economic and Social Attitudes of College Students toward the Integration of Immigrants and Refugees: A Comparative Study from the Czech Republic and the U.S

Popis výsledku anglicky

The goal of this paper is to identify the attitudes of college students from economics-related courses in the Czech Republic and the USA concerning the integration of immigrants, including refugees. Issues of immigration currently resonate more in the Czech Republic where a higher percentage of respondents have a very distinct view of it. Czech respondents perceive migrants as a foreign element in society whose values and views they are unable to identify with, and so that make demands for strong assimilation of immigrants, which they simplistically see as one of the possible ways out of the current situation. In contrast, The American respondents’ broader experience with immigration in the United States leads to a much more conciliatory and realistic attitude toward immigrants, which isn’t always entirely positive but which, at the same time, displays a much lesser degree of various unfounded economic and social clichés often associated with migration. The very negative attitudes toward refugees in the Czech Republic, in comparison to the United States, are influenced by the relatively short historical experience with immigration and, at the present time, also by the very negative media image of an uncontrolled refugee crisis in Europe and also by insufficient awareness about the problem of migration and asylum in general, where, for the most part, these themes have not been a component of education in Czech high schools or even at college.

Druh

J_ost - Ostatní články v recenzovaných periodicích

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

50202 - Applied Economics, Econometrics

Projekt

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Návaznosti

N - Vyzkumna aktivita podporovana z neverejnych zdroju

Rok uplatnění

2019

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název periodika

Scientia et Societas

ISSN

1801-7118

e-ISSN

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Svazek periodika

XV

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

1

Stát vydavatele periodika

CZ - Česká republika

Počet stran výsledku

9

Strana od-do

99-107

Kód UT WoS článku

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