A European poll into the attitudes of young people in 2001, revealed that three out of ten young Europeans (29%) think that there are too many foreigners in their country. During an interview on Swedish Radio on 21 November 2003, the Head of State of Sweden, Göran Persson, said that Sweden “vill inte ha den så kallade sociala turismen som missbrukar våra sociala förmåner”, referring to the new membership of 10 East-European countries into the EU and whose citizens would have the right to work in the old EU-countries. This so-called “social tourism” which was feared and proclaimed on national air-waves never took place. Some 32 million Swedish crowns were allocated for this purpose, but only approximately one million crowns have been used and no citizen from the new EU-countries has claimed unemployment benefits to this date (Jonkute, 2005 in Invandrare & Minoriteter, 2005).
Contents
Introduction
Earlier research into the attitudes about immigrants and
minority groups amongst youth and in education settings
Social and psycho-social factors affecting prejudice
Some explanations to some concepts used in the study
The current study
Method
Design
Subjects
Procedure
Results
Discussion
Conclusions
References
Appendix
Author: Sahin Andrews, Endira
Source: Sodertorn University
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