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SUMMARYCroatia's accession to the EU has brought new challenges and issues in researching and analysing migration flows and trends as well as attitudes and perceptions of real and potential newcomers. The aim of this paper is to explore attitudes of the residents of the two most easterly Croatian counties towards two distinct categories of newcomers: immigrant workers and asylum seekers. The research was conducted shortly after Croatia's entry into the EU, in September 2013, and the presented data are a part of a larger survey that included various migration and ethnicity issues. The survey was applied on a convenience sample of 1 110 adult respondents in two counties: Osijek-Baranja and Vukovar-Srijem. Data were analysed in a series of multivariate procedures. Results indicated significant perceptions of immigrant workers within the dimension of cultural threat, along with the expression of a considerable degree of social distance towards them. Asylum seekers were further perceived as a security and economic threat. Within two analysed regression models, the effects on attitudes towards immigrant workers and asylum seekers were similar. Among the spectrum of socio-demographic variables, a statistically significant effect on both dependent variables came from age and political orientation, indicating that older and politically right-oriented respondents expressed more negative attitudes towards both groups. Among other socio-demographic variables, education was significant in predicting attitudes towards immigrant workers, while ethnicity was significant in predicting the attitudes towards asylum seekers. The second model analysed the effect of selected political attitudes and value orientations resulting in significant prediction of negative attitudes towards both groups by pronounced conservativism, support of aggression and submission, social-dominance, dominant submisMigracijske i etničke teme 32 (2016), 1: 91-122 92 sive authoritarianism and social alienation, rejecting socially oriented values and expressing greater interest in politics. Differences in prediction of dependent variables indicated that more liberal and better educated respondents had more positive attitudes towards immigrant workers, while Serbs (in comparison to Croats) and respondents rejecting anti-EU orientations had a more positive perception of asylum seekers. The results were compared to other relevant research, including the discussion of observed differences and similarities, and recommendations for further research.

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Social tolerance towards left-handed people is commonly accepted in the twenty-first century, though not universal. However, at the level of social cognition a subtle bias against this visible minority group might not have disappeared. To investigate this possibility we adopted the theoretical framework of the stereotype content model (SCM) whereby two fundamental dimensions (warmth and competence) are sufficient to explain group differences in stereotype content. We examined how a large sample of medical students (N=300) perceived nine social groups (seven with various physical, social, or mental handicaps, and the two target groups of left- and right-handers), and four "anchor" groups comprising educated people, pensioners, drug addicts, and rich people) which are considered as prototypical in terms of the SCM. Hierarchical cluster analysis was performed to determine similarity of groups in the warmth × competence two-dimensional space. Four clusters were identified, with left- and right-handers located in the same cluster together with educated people. This cluster had higher ratings on both warmth and competence (i.e., more positive stereotype) compared with all other groups. However, within-cluster analysis showed that the left-handed group was perceived as lower on both dimensions compared to the right-handed group. This statistically significant difference suggests that implicit bias against left-handed individuals has not vanished despite pervasive social tolerance. Possible mechanisms that may explain this subtle and subliminal stereotyping are discussed.

U ovom radu opisana je konstrukcija mjernog instrumenta "Skale stavova prema tražiteljima azila", koja se temelji na ispitivanju provedenom na prigodnom uzorku od 277 studenata/studentica društvenih, prirodnih i tehničkih smjerova Zagrebačkoga sveučilišta. Eksploratornom faktorskom analizom, direktnom oblimin rotacijom dobivena su tri faktora: "percepcija društvene prijetnje", "percepcija kulturne prijetnje" te "percepcija zdravstveno-ekonomske prijetnje". Dobiveni faktori objašnjavaju 60,8% varijance instrumenta te su na temelju njih konstruirane aditivne podskale koje su tretirane kao zavisne varijable u jednostavnoj analizi varijance (ANOVA), dok su kao nezavisne uzete odabrane sociodemografske, sociokulturne i kontekstualne varijable. Rezultati pokazuju da veći doživljaj tražitelja azila kao društvene i kulturne prijetnje među studentskom populacijom Zagrebačkoga sveučilišta imaju studenti koji studiraju tehničke znanosti, politički se pozicioniraju desno i krajnje desno, uvjereni su vjernici ili su religiozni te oni koji nemaju ili imaju samo jednoga prijatelja stranca u RH (značajno samo za percepciju društvene prijetnje). Veći doživljaj tražitelja azila kao zdravstveno-ekonomske prijetnje imaju samo oni koji studiraju tehničke ili prirodne znanosti. Predviđena povezanost stavova prema tražiteljima azila s varijablom "osobno iskustvo raseljenosti" (prognaničko i izbjegličko iskustvo), varijablom "kontakt s tražiteljom azila ili azilantom" te varijablom "primarni izvor upoznavanja s temom azila" nije statistički značajna.Ključne riječi: azil, tražitelji azila, izbjeglice, percepcija prijetnje, ksenofobija Drago Župarić-Iljić, Institut za migracije i narodnosti,