Economic crisis, human values and attitudes towards immigrants

Recent decades have seen some European countries experiencing a new wave of migratory rates that have sustained economic growth and simultaneously contributed to changes in the pattems of customs, life styles, values and religions. Alongside this new European setting, ambivalent positions in the att...

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Main Author: Ramos, Alice (author)
Other Authors: Pereira, Cicero Roberto (author), Vala, Jorge (author)
Format: bookPart
Language:eng
Published: 2016
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10451/23394
Country:Portugal
Oai:oai:repositorio.ul.pt:10451/23394
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Summary:Recent decades have seen some European countries experiencing a new wave of migratory rates that have sustained economic growth and simultaneously contributed to changes in the pattems of customs, life styles, values and religions. Alongside this new European setting, ambivalent positions in the attitude domain have emerged. This occurs because in contemporary democratic societies people are embedded within cultural environments that disseminate a social discourse stressing that good people are egalitarian and non-discriminatory.