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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Detalhes bibliográficos
Autor principal: Ramos, Alice (author)
Outros Autores: Pereira, Cicero Roberto (author), Vala, Jorge (author)
Formato: bookPart
Idioma:eng
Publicado em: 2016
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Texto completo:http://hdl.handle.net/10451/23394
País:Portugal
Oai:oai:repositorio.ul.pt:10451/23394
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Resumo: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.