The purpose of this study is to identify how volunteer activists perceive refugees and find out the accommodation attitudes towards which dimension they are aware of and to explore the correlation between extracted factors. In this study the author co...
The purpose of this study is to identify how volunteer activists perceive refugees and find out the accommodation attitudes towards which dimension they are aware of and to explore the correlation between extracted factors. In this study the author conducted an individual depth interview with 10 volunteer activists living in the Incheon area and reveled major dimensions of perception of accommodation attitudes which consisted of 73 statements and 7 associations using the concept map which classifies the dimension and associations.
The results of the analysis states that the 59 statements are mostly positive, some are mixed with positive and negative statements, and the rest of 14 are negative. This means that they respect refugees but also that they have both positive and negative biases towards them which leads to them being unable to accept them as actual equals. The author suggests research methods based on the results of the study for a strong improvement of future accommodation attitudes and points to the need to examine education policy in general.