“Who Are These Foreigners Anyway?” The Content of the Term Foreigner and Its Impact on Prejudice
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The term foreigners is often used in prejudice research to analyze prejudice toward immigrants, but it is not specified which groups respondents have in mind. In the present study, we analyzed the content of the term foreigner and its impact on prejudice toward foreigners in a German national probability sample ( N = 1,763). Results indicated that most respondents think of people with a Turkish migration background, but regional differences between East and West Germany occurred. In addition, the different individual meanings connected with the term foreigner go along with different levels of prejudice against foreigners: Differences in prejudice toward foreigners between East and West Germany are partially due to different groups associated with the term foreigner. Theoretical and practical implications for quantitative prejudice research are discussed.
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In a representative sample of Germans, when asked whom they think of when thinking about foreigners living in Germany, Germans disproportionately think of Muslims, and this salience is associated with more negative attitudes toward foreigners overall.
“Wallrich et al. (2020) find that when asked whom they think of when thinking about foreigners living in Germany, Germans disproportionately think of Muslims, and this salience is associated with more negative attitudes toward foreigners overall (see also Asbrock et al. 2014).”
From Prejudice and Discrimination Toward Immigrants (2021) · cites this paper as Asbrock et al. 2014
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- Authors
- Asbrock, F., Lemmer, G., Becker, J. C., Koller, J., & Wagner, U.
- Affiliations
- Philipps University of Marburg (DE)
- Osnabrück University (DE)
- Venue
- Sage Open
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2014-01-01
- Volume
- 4
- Issue
- 2
- ISSN
- 2158-2440 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2144302213
- Cited by
- 65
- References
- 48
- Citations by year
- 2026: 2 · 2025: 2 · 2024: 6 · 2023: 10 · 2022: 5 · 2021: 5 · 2020: 6 · 2019: 9 · 2018: 8 · 2017: 6 · 2016: 4 · 2015: 2
- FWCI
- 13.03
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
- doi.org
- Locations
- SAGE Open (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Social and Intergroup Psychology
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Migration, Refugees, and Integration
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Racial and Ethnic Identity Research
- Keywords
- immigrants, Turkish immigrants, East-West German differences, prejudice measurement, German public attitudes
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