Does Individual Health Have Implications for Individuals’ Attitudes towards Minority Groups? A Case Study from the Greek Population
| Autor: | Jonathan Hall, Carolin Rapp, Terje Andreas Eikemo |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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Refugee 05 social sciences Geography Planning and Development Immigration Ethnic group Racial group 0506 political science 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Individual health Political Science and International Relations 050602 political science & public administration 030212 general & internal medicine Greek population Psychology Health policy Clinical psychology media_common |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Refugee Studies. 32:i238-i252 |
| ISSN: | 1471-6925 0951-6328 |
| DOI: | 10.1093/jrs/fez043 |
| Popis: | 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. |
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