O papel do preconceito e de fatores identitários na oposição aos imigrantes qualificados

• Ano de defesa: 2016
• Autor(a) principal: Barros, Clarissa maria Dubeux Lopes
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Federal da Paraíba; Brasil; Psicologia Social; Programa de Pós-Graduação em Psicologia Social; UFPB
• Palavras-chave em Português: Preconceito; Prejudice; Prejuicio; Oposição ao imigrante qualificado; Identificação patriótica; Lusotropicalismo; Oposición al inmigrante cualificado; Identidad patriótica; Opposition to qualified immigrants; Patriotic identification; Lusotropicalism; CIENCIAS HUMANAS::PSICOLOGIA
• Link de acesso: https://repositorio.ufpb.br/jspui/handle/tede/8542

This thesis aims to investigate the role of prejudice and the salience of identity factors in the oposition to qualified immigration. It was defended that the opposition to the qualified immigrant is affected by motivacional and ideological factors. Among these factors, two were specifically analysed: a) the attitudes in face of the outgroup, particularly the prejudice against the immigrant's origin group and b) the representations of the ingroup, here analysed from the patriotic identification with the country itself and the ideology of Lusotropicalism. To reach the proposed objective the settings of the "Mais médicos", existent in Brazil and the scenery of the hiring of foreeign doctors in Portugal were used. In total there were made three papers, in which five studies were distributed. The first paper analysed, among Brazilian medicine students, how prejudice contributes to the opposition of qualified professionals hiring, in this case, the immigrating doctor. Our hypothesis was that the positioning against the hiring of immigrating doctors is affected by outgroup attitudes through the origin group of the immigrant. To analyse it, we conducted an experimental study in which we manipulated the national origin of the doctors and measured the subjects'opposition to their hirings. The results indicate that the participants opposed equally the the hiring of foreeign doctors from the "Mais médicos program" and no differences were seen in the opposition in the face of Cuban, Spanish and Portuguese immigrants. Opposedly, the subjects showed no opposition to the hiring of Brasilian doctors, which reassures the premisses of ingroup favouritism proposed by the social identity theory. The second article aimed, through two studies, to investigate the role of prejudice and patriotic identification in the relationship between students of all areas of a Brazilian public university and immigrant doctors. The results indicated that only the most prejudicious opposed themselves to the foreign doctors and that historical patriotism motivated the research participants to act in a selective manner in the oposition to the doctors. Thus, while the least patriotic participants, in their historical dimension, the effect of prejudice in their opposition is significant to the groups of Portuguese, Cuban and Brazilian doctors, among the more patriotic, which resulted in a significantly prejudice-affected positioning against Cuban, Spanish and Portuguese immigrants. In the third article, through two empirical studies, the adherence to the ideology of Lusotropicalism and the prejudice in opposition to skilled immigration in Portugal were studied. The results indicated that only among the prejudicious individuals was there any influence from the immigrants'origins in the individuals positioning to qualified immigrants. The results suggest the possibility of Lusotropicalism being a facilitating ideology instead of one that increases the effect of prejudice in discrimination, disfavoring the doctors who don't share this lusotropicalist representation, with the exeption of the Ucranian. In this way, the implications of these results must be considered as the first step to analyse the role of prejudice and identity factors in the opposition to the hiring of qualified immigrants.