Prejuicio sutil y manifiesto hacia migrantes venezolanos en población ecuatoriana transeúnte del Centro Histórico de Quito durante el mes de enero del 2022.

Abstract

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.