The immigration phenomenon as the spanish youth see it. Comparative research work done between Madrid and Andalusia

Abstract

We analyze in this paper young peoples perception and attitudes towards immigration by comparing two research works done in different national contexts. Few people accept they are racist even when indirectly asked and deep refusal attitudes are not noted either although some differences according to the group being considered are observed. Even so we want to make it clear how stereotypes and prejudices concerning immigration phenomena are built by checking that a partial and not global consideration of the immigration phenomena done by this research work together with references to this subject by the media, finding out in some of them a dangerous connection among alien status, justice and civic insecurity, and an association between immigration and prostitution.. Thus racist prejudice consists on associating, the growth of immigration with delinquency. Hence the importance of a serious and objective approach to migration phenomena if we want to build up a plural and healthy society.