Professor Tobias Heidland – Professor Philipp C. Wichardt | Building Community Acceptance of Refugees Through Mutual Understanding

Jan 21, 2025 | behavioural sciences

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The successful integration of refugees continues to be a major challenge for many countries. While there’s often a strong desire to help people who are fleeing dangerous situations, concerns about cultural changes and social impacts can create tension in host communities. Recent research by Professor Tobias Heidland of Kiel Institute for the World Economy and Professor Philipp C. Wichardt of the University of Rostock offers fascinating insights into how these competing feelings affect attitudes toward refugees. Their findings reveal that when refugees show an understanding of local concerns, it can significantly improve how they are perceived by host communities. Read More

Original Article Reference

Summary of the article ‘Conflicting identities: cosmopolitan or anxious? Appreciating concerns of host country population improves attitudes towards immigrants’, in Social Forces, doi.org/10.1093/sf/soae108

A special thanks to Doris Neuberger, Laura Sunder-Plassmann and Aleksandar Zaklan for making this presentation possible

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For further information, you can connect with Professor Philipp C. Wichardt at philipp.wichardt@uni-rostock.de

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