Immigrants Are Like … The Representation of Immigrants in Italy: The Metaphors Used by Students and Their Family Backgrounds

IF 0.3 Q4 PSYCHOLOGY, EDUCATIONAL Journal of Educational Cultural and Psychological Studies Pub Date : 2016-06-13 DOI:10.7358/ECPS-2016-013-CAVI
Elisa Cavicchiolo, Fabio Alivernini, S. Manganelli
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The aim of this study is to identify the way young Italian students represent immigrants and to evaluate the existence of relationships between these representations and the family background of the students. The data is based on a sample of Italian students (N = 841). The respondents were given an open question, which asked them to provide a simile or a metaphor concerning immigrants. A mixed methodology was employed, which involved: (i) analysis of the qualitative content; (ii) quantitative analysis investigating the relationship between the categories identified by means of an analysis of the content and the socioeconomic status of the student. The results showed a very diverse and articulated set of representations, with the contents of the metaphors produced by the students ranging from those based on a kind of «us-them» opposition, to images based on an attitude of tolerance and equality, and semantic regions with a more emotional component. The analysis revealed some statistically significant relationships between the socio-economic backgrounds of the students’ families and some types of metaphors produced by the students. The mixed research methodology adopted proved to be effective with respect to the objectives of the study, and it combines the use of reliable statistical tools with the qualitative richness of metaphor-based answers to open questions.
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移民就像…意大利移民的表现:学生及其家庭背景的隐喻
本研究的目的是确定年轻的意大利学生代表移民的方式,并评估这些代表与学生的家庭背景之间存在的关系。数据基于意大利学生的样本(N = 841)。受访者被给予一个开放性问题,要求他们提供一个关于移民的明喻或隐喻。采用了一种混合方法,其中包括:(i)分析定性内容;(ii)定量分析,调查通过分析课程内容而确定的类别与学生的社会经济地位之间的关系。结果显示,学生们产生的隐喻的内容非常多样化和清晰,从基于一种“我们-他们”的对立,到基于宽容和平等态度的图像,以及具有更多情感成分的语义区域。分析发现,学生家庭的社会经济背景与学生产生的某些类型的隐喻之间存在统计学上显著的关系。采用的混合研究方法被证明是有效的,就研究的目标而言,它结合了可靠的统计工具的使用和基于隐喻的开放性问题答案的定性丰富性。
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