dc.contributor.author | Hall, Jonathan | |
dc.contributor.author | Rapp, Carolin | |
dc.contributor.author | Eikemo, Terje Andreas | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2020-05-14T13:21:14Z | |
dc.date.available | 2020-05-14T13:21:14Z | |
dc.date.created | 2020-01-22T17:34:28Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2019 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 0951-6328 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/11250/2654505 | |
dc.description.abstract | Immunological defence against pathogens and behavioural responses to members of other ethnic or racial groups may be understood as co-evolved solutions to a commonly recurring adaptive problem in our ancestral environment: the need to avoid infectious disease. In recent years, research on the concept of the behavioural immune system has highlighted behavioural defence, showing in particular that individual-level disgust sensitively is associated with greater prejudice towards members of other—particularly stigmatized—social groups. Stigma thus represents in part a human disease-avoidance strategy. This mechanism is thereby assumed to be particularly strong for individuals who report poor mental and/or physical health. In this article, we draw upon MIGHEAL data to examine how health vulnerabilities impact prejudice towards new immigrants in Greece—a key refugee- and migrant-receiving society. The findings have direct implications for the political consequences of health interventions: policies that result in enhanced immune-system functioning and resilience to health shocks may reduce prejudice towards new migrants, enhancing a society’s capacity to receive and integrate refugees and other migrants. Health policy may thus provide an avenue by which societies improve their responses to large-scale migration flows—a policy area that arguably represents the greatest moral crisis of our time. | en_US |
dc.language.iso | eng | en_US |
dc.publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) | en_US |
dc.title | Does Individual Health Have Implications for Individuals’ Attitudes towards Minority Groups? A Case Study from the Greek Population | en_US |
dc.type | Peer reviewed | en_US |
dc.type | Journal article | en_US |
dc.description.version | publishedVersion | en_US |
dc.source.volume | 32 | en_US |
dc.source.journal | Journal of Refugee Studies | en_US |
dc.source.issue | 1 | en_US |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1093/jrs/fez043 | |
dc.identifier.cristin | 1780401 | |
dc.description.localcode | This article will not be available due to copyright restrictions (c) 2019 by OUP | en_US |
cristin.unitcode | 194,67,25,0 | |
cristin.unitname | Institutt for sosiologi og statsvitenskap | |
cristin.ispublished | true | |
cristin.fulltext | original | |
cristin.qualitycode | 1 | |