Date of Award
Spring 5-2015
Degree Type
Honors College Thesis
Department
Anthropology and Sociology
First Advisor
Julie Reid
Advisor Department
Anthropology and Sociology
Abstract
According the estimates by the United Nations, there are nearly fifty-million refugees in the world. Because attitudes toward refugees could influence government refugee policies, it is important to study the attitudes people have toward refugees entering the United States. To learn more about attitudes toward refugees in the United States, a survey was conducted of over two college students, asking how they defined refugees and who should be allowed into the United States as refugees. Survey respondents from all demographic groups were surprisingly accepting of all types of refugees. However, some refugee variables, such as gender and situation, and respondent variables, such as political orientation, were related to different attitudes toward refugees. Because people’s attitudes toward refugees could affect whether a country will give refugees asylum, researchers should study people’s attitudes toward refugees and the variables that influence people’s attitudes on refugees.
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Recommended Citation
Bullard, Sarah M., "Attitudes Toward Refugees Entering the United States of America" (2015). Honors Theses. 323.
https://aquila.usm.edu/honors_theses/323