bachelorThesis
Prejuicio sutil y manifiesto hacia migrantes venezolanos en población ecuatoriana transeúnte del Centro Histórico de Quito durante el mes de enero del 2022.
Fecha
2022-03Autor
Suárez Sanabria, Ricardo Xavier
Institución
Resumen
This research has been carried out with the purpose of discovering the levels of
prejudice towards immigrants from Venezuela in a population of 50 people who
were passing through the Historic Center of Quito in January 2022. In order to
support the present research, information was sought from various academic sources
related to the topic, which account for the phenomenon of prejudice and its dynamics
in contemporary society. Once the appropriate information was available as a
preamble, we proceeded to the collection of information.
To obtain the pertinent data for the research, the Subtle and Manifest Prejudice
Scale of Pettigrew and Meertens (1995) was used in its version adapted to Spanish
by Rueda and Navas (1996), which helped us to identify the level of individual and
group prejudice of the persons surveyed in each of its dimensions, that is to say,
subtle prejudice, which is considered the new form of prejudice since it is masked
and distant, and manifest prejudice, which is its traditional expression, in other
words, explicit and direct attitudes towards the immigrant group.
Once the data obtained from the people surveyed with the scale were available, a
statistical analysis was used to obtain the pertinent results, which showed high levels
of prejudice towards the Venezuelan immigrant group. These results were also
analyzed based on variables such as gender, level of education and age.
Subsequently, the typology of subjects (fanatic, subtle, egalitarian) suggested by
Pettigrew and Meertens (1995) was used to categorize the respondents according to
their obtained data. This classification of subjects was revealing, as it accounted for
the fact that a large part of the respondents has the tendency of fanatic subjects, i.e.,
they are people with high levels of prejudiced attitudes.
Thus, the present research and the instrument used will make prejudice visible as
a pernicious phenomenon for our society and its cohesion, and yet so little studied in
our Ecuadorian and quiteño context despite the circumstances.