“…In addition, we cannot deny that there has been a great deal of concern in the European Union for some time due to the rise of xenophobic and racist attitudes towards minority groups and immigrants (citizens from emerging or developing countries), as shown in the study conducted by the European Monitoring Centre on Racism and Xenophobia (Thalhammer, Zucha, Enzenhofer, Salfinger, & Ogris, 2001). In the same line, in later studies, such as those by León del Barco, Mira, and Gómez Carroza (2007), who study a sample of university students, Balch (2010), Martín-Artiles, and Meardi (2013), Martín-Artiles and Molina (2011), Naranjo Giraldo (2015), and Narvaiza, Laka, and Silvestre (2007), who reveal a set of key variables to be studied to understand the attitudes of the European population towards the immigration process, the main conclusions reached point to the manifest rejection by the citizenry of some European Union countries of these minority and immigrant groups, articulated in three different aspects. First, the unemployment rate seems to be associated with attitudes of rejection towards these groups.…”