Acculturative Orientations and Ethnic-racial Prejudice Toward Haitian Immigrants in Southern BrazilACCULTURATIVE ORIENTATIONS AND ETHNIC-RACIAL PREJUDICE TOWARD HAITIAN IMMIGRANTS IN SOUTHERN BRAZIL

Abstract

This study aimed to identify acculturative orientations of a Brazilian host community from a small countryside city toward Haitian immigrants and investigate which factors, related to racial prejudice, quality of life, and sociodemographic characteristics, were associated to the adopted acculturative orientations. 88 host community members were interviewed and the results indicated that the most adopted acculturative orientation are individualism and integration. Higher quality of life and lesser racial prejudice is related to the acculturative orientations of individualism and integration, whereas lower perceived quality of life and greater racial prejudice is related to the acculturative orientation segregation and exclusionism. The results show the importance of a migratory policy that follows the integrative model, informing the population about the theme and focusing on actions that can tackle racial prejudice, which is the leading sphere related to acculturative orientations that exclude Haitian immigrants from society.