[VCEE Seminar] REMINDER: VCEE Seminar with Biljana Meiske - Invitation, June 2

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Dear All,

You are invited to attend the VCEE seminar on Monday, June 2, from 11:30 to
13:00 hrs Vienna time. 

The seminar takes place in lecture hall 5 (ground floor) at
Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1.

We will have one speaker: Biljana Meiske (EUI Florence)

Webpage:  http://biljanameiske.com/ 

Here is more information about the talk:

Title:  Queen Bee Immigrant: The Effects of Status Perceptions on
Immigration Attitudes

 

Abstract:

This work examines a seemingly counter-intuitive phenomenon observed in many
Western democracies, whereby parts of the immigrant population oppose new
waves of immigration. I propose a mechanism based on group status
distribution that, complementarily to other considerations, can help to
explain these preferences. I hypothesize that relative status deprivation,
that is, the degree to which a given national/ethnic group is ranked low in
the ethnic status hierarchy of the host country, has a negative impact on
the attitudes of its members toward even lower-ranked groups. In an
experiment run with a sample of participants with an immigration background
residing in Germany (N=1,159), I manipulate participants status perceptions
by exposing them to either a positive or a negative evaluation of their
national/ethnic in-group, as evaluated by a separate group of
native-majority (German) participants. The results show that receiving a
negative (rather than positive) evaluation of their in-group leads the
participants to express more negative views of the refugees from the Middle
East and to significantly decrease their willingness to donate to an
organization supporting refugees, while not altering their generosity in a
general setting unrelated to immigration. I additionally show that
participants rely on the received evaluation of their in-group to update
their perception of the norms surrounding prejudice expression toward the
low-status groups in the host society. Finally, the results show that the
treatment affects not only the privately held attitudes but also the
participants willingness to publicly express them, as participants holding
critical views of the refugees disclose them more readily when under the
observation of the native-majority participants if they received a negative
(rather than positive) evaluation of their in-group.


If you are interested in meeting Biljana Meiske (meeting slots of 30') you
can register via this link, there are still some free slots.

https://nuudel.digitalcourage.de/hzgtVb6GOhDsOxxy

 

Best regards,

Sylvia

 

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