Assessing attitudes of citizens of Qazvin city towards Afghan Refugees via Cybernetics

Authors

  • Hossein Keshavarz Ghasemi Central branch of Islamic Azad University
  • Babak Naderpour Central branch of Islamic Azad University

Keywords:

Migration, Afghan immigrations, the Bogardus social distance scale, factor analysis, Cybernetics

Abstract

The aim of the present study is to assess attitudes of citizens of Qazvin City towards Afghan migrants using the factor analysis technique and the Bogardus Social Distance Scale. The data were collected via a questionnaire distributed among a sample size as 384 participants. Then, the collected data were analyzed via SPSS-23 and the factor analysis technique. As a result, 30 indices were summarized by factor analysis and reduced into 7 factors presented in combinatorial meaningful factors. The contribution of each factor affecting the attitudes of citizens of Qazvin City towards Afghan refugees using the mentioned technique. The research findings indicated that those 7 factors generally explain 60.21% of the citizens’ attitudes towards Afghan migrants. The results obtained from the Bogardus Social Distance Scale showed that citizens of Qazvin City have no positive attitudes towards Afghans with the mean scores of negative answers with 77.66%. This issue indicates a great social distance between Afghan refugees and the research population. 

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Author Biographies

Hossein Keshavarz Ghasemi, Central branch of Islamic Azad University

Ph.D. Student of Political Sociology at Tehran Azad University, central branch

Babak Naderpour, Central branch of Islamic Azad University

Dr., Faculty of Political Science, Azad University, Central Tehran Branch

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2017-09-18

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Keshavarz Ghasemi, H., & Naderpour, B. (2017). Assessing attitudes of citizens of Qazvin city towards Afghan Refugees via Cybernetics. Journal of Human Sciences, 14(3), 2703–2721. Retrieved from https://j-humansciences.com/ojs/index.php/IJHS/article/view/4486

Issue

Vol. 14 No. 3 (2017)

Section

Sociology

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