No dia 7 de março,  Filipa Madeira (ICS-ULisboa) será a oradora convidada no Seminário do Grupo de Investigação SPARC. O tema para esta sessão será o estudo Unraveling Historical Legacies: How Colonial Ideologies Shape Present-Day Attitudes toward Immigration Policies.

Sobre o estudo:

This study explores the social-psychological and ideological mechanisms underlying preferences for discriminatory migration policies, particularly ethnicist-based criteria. Specifically, we propose that how individuals support assimilationism and multiculturalism better reflects the underlying ideologies that promote positive national distinctiveness (PND). Building on social dominance theory, we introduce colonial ideological beliefs, as a critical factor shaping attitudes towards immigrants. Our model proposes a sequential mediation, where social dominance orientation (SDO) predicts colonial ideology, leading to the endorsement of national positive distinctiveness (NPD) ideologies, ultimately influencing ethnicist-based discriminatory attitudes (ECA). In a study with a sample of 160 Portuguese individuals, we measured SDO, colonial ideologies, operationalized PND based on individuals’ patterns of combined support for multiculturalism and assimilationism, and ECA. The results reveal that colonial ideology and PND serially mediate the relationship between SDO and ECA. That is, the findings indicated that the higher the SDO, the greater the individuals supported colonial ideology, which positively predicted the PND and ultimately ECA. This research offers novel insights into the role played by past representations of colonialism on present-day attitudes toward diversity and immigration policies in postcolonial societies. It highlights the role of colonial ideological beliefs and PND ideologies in shaping discriminatory attitudes towards immigrants, and contributes to understanding how ideologies about colonialism perpetuate contemporary social inequality.

O evento terá lugar entre as 14.30h e 16h, na Sala 2 do ICS-ULisboa e via Zoom.