Are we really going to get out of COVID-19 together? Secured legal status and trust among refugees and migrants

IF 1.8 Q3 PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL

Journal of Social and Political Psychology Pub Date : 2023-03-23 DOI:10.5964/jspp.6969

E. Politi, A. Roblain, Laurent Licata

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Abstract

Building up on pre-existing vulnerabilities and social exclusions, refugees and migrants are disproportionately suffering from the negative effects of the COVID-19 outbreak. Insecure legal status is an additional stressor that may accentuate social cleavages and ultimately impair their trust in host society and institutions. Based on a diverse sample of refugees and migrants in Belgium (N = 355), the present study investigates direct and indirect effects of legal status—measured as the type of residence permit held by participants—on social and political trust during the COVID-19 outbreak. Secured legal status was positively associated with social and political trust directly, and indirectly via a serial mediation composed by two cumulative stages. First, participants with a more secured legal status experienced less material difficulties to cope with the pandemic (i.e., first material stage). Second, participant who experienced less material difficulties identified more with the host society (i.e., second symbolic stage). In turn, reduced material difficulties and increased identification with the host society were both positively associated with social and political trust. Our findings advocate for securing legal status of refugees and migrants to help societies cope cohesively with the long-lasting effects of the COVID-19 outbreak.

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我们真的要一起走出新冠肺炎吗？难民和移民之间有保障的法律地位和信任

在先前存在的脆弱性和社会排斥的基础上，难民和移民不成比例地受到新冠肺炎疫情的负面影响。不安全的法律地位是一个额外的压力源，可能会加剧社会分裂，并最终损害他们对东道国社会和机构的信任。本研究基于比利时难民和移民的不同样本（N=355），调查了新冠肺炎爆发期间参与者持有的居住许可类型对社会和政治信任的法律地位的直接和间接影响。有保障的法律地位与社会和政治信任直接相关，也通过由两个累积阶段组成的一系列调解间接相关。首先，具有更安全法律地位的参与者在应对疫情方面遇到的物质困难较少（即第一个物质阶段）。其次，经历较少物质困难的参与者更认同东道国社会（即第二象征阶段）。反过来，物质困难的减少和对东道国社会认同的增加都与社会和政治信任呈正相关。我们的调查结果主张确保难民和移民的法律地位，以帮助社会一致应对新冠肺炎疫情的长期影响。

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Journal of Social and Political Psychology Social Sciences-Sociology and Political Science

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2.70

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4.80%

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40 weeks

期刊介绍： The Journal of Social and Political Psychology (JSPP) is a peer-reviewed open-access journal (without author fees), published online. It publishes articles at the intersection of social and political psychology that substantially advance the understanding of social problems, their reduction, and the promotion of social justice. It also welcomes work that focuses on socio-political issues from related fields of psychology (e.g., peace psychology, community psychology, cultural psychology, environmental psychology, media psychology, economic psychology) and encourages submissions with interdisciplinary perspectives. JSPP is comprehensive and integrative in its approach. It publishes high-quality work from different epistemological, methodological, theoretical, and cultural perspectives and from different regions across the globe. It provides a forum for innovation, questioning of assumptions, and controversy and debate. JSPP aims to give creative impetuses for academic scholarship and for applications in education, policymaking, professional practice, and advocacy and social action. It intends to transcend the methodological and meta-theoretical divisions and paradigm clashes that characterize the field of social and political psychology, and to counterbalance the current overreliance on the hypothetico-deductive model of science, quantitative methodology, and individualistic explanations by also publishing work following alternative traditions (e.g., qualitative and mixed-methods research, participatory action research, critical psychology, social representations, narrative, and discursive approaches). Because it is published online, JSPP can avoid a bias against research that requires more space to be presented adequately.