Ljujic, V.
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Ljujic, V. (2011, December 14). Romaphobia among adolescents : the role of perceived threat, nationalism, and acculturation expectations. Retrieved from
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Romaphobia among adolescents: the role of perceived threat, nationalism, and acculturation expectations
Proefschrift ter verkrijging van
de graad van Doctor aan de Universiteit Leiden,
op gezag van de Rector Magnificus prof. mr. P. F. van der Heijden, volgens besluit van het College voor Promoties
te verdedigen op woensdag 14 december 2011 klokke 10:00 uur
door Vanja Ljujic
geboren te Nova Varos, Servië in 1974
Promotoren
Prof. Dr. P. Vedder Prof. Dr. H. Dekker
Cover illustration courtesy of Dr. Fahrudin Nuno Salihbegovic (University of Greenwich).
Acknowledgment
Writing this dissertation has been a great pleasure, despite all the difficulties (some small and some big) that I encountered on my way. I would like to thank my supervisors, Professor Paul Vedder and Professor Henk Dekker for their patient guidance and encouragement during this project.
I would also like to thank all the students from Serbia and the Netherlands who participated in the surveys, as well as their teachers and school principals. I am very grateful to my cousins Ana, Igor, Buba and Miona, who took care that my stay in Serbia was very warm, pleasurable and feast laden. I would like to thank the TARKI Institute from Budapest for letting me use their data. I am grateful to my colleagues who made me feel at home at Leiden University. Dear Fatima, Mitch, Ron, Erlijn, Begüm and Jenny, thank you for having always been with me in situations when I needed extra inspiration and support. Coen, thanks for helping me find my way in the labyrinths of statistics. I hope to stay in contact with you and other RCI people and to attend one of these lovely onderzoeklunch again!
In the last two years, I’ve had the pleasure of supervising several BA and MA students with their thesis work on prejudice. Elize, Roelinka, Mirjam, Natasja, Miranda, Claudia, Kevin, Jacqueline, Janique and Aarti - jullie zijn heel gemotiveerde, hardwerkende en stoere mensen en het was bijzonder prettig om met jullie samen te werken!
My stay in the Netherlands outside academia has truly been enriched by my dear friends Gordana, Aleksej, Norbert, Helga, Roelin, Stefania, Matthias, Ian, Albana and Emiliano. My parents, Mila and Milisav, my sister Tatjana, my brother in law Nuno, and my sweet little nephew Isak - you have been my inspiration in research and life! Dear Christoph, if I thanked you for everything for which I owe you, the list would be longer than this dissertation. I am dedicating this thesis to my little princess Soledad! Ти си мaминa највећа љубав и срећа!
Content
1. General introduction 7
2. Romaphobia: A unique phenomenon? 15
3. Romaphobia among Serbian adolescents: The role of national in-group attitudes and perceived threat
30
4. Serbian adolescents’ Romaphobia and their acculturation orientations toward the Roma minority
53
5. Romaphobia among Serbian and Dutch adolescents: The role of threat, nationalistic feelings and integrative orientations
74
6. General discussion 96
7. Summary (in Dutch) 101
8. Biography 104
