Us or them: How COVID-19 vaccine priority influences perceptions of local-migrant worker relations

• Main Authors: HUANG, Tengjiao, ZHOU, Haochen, JONES, Liz, CONG, Chin Wen
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2024
• Subjects: COVID-19 vaccine; fairness; intergroup relations; migrant workers; realistic threat; social identity theory; Malaysia; Australia; Asian Studies; Public Health; Social Psychology
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/4073; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/5331/viewcontent/Usorthem__COVID_19_pvoa_cc_by_nc.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

The COVID-19 pandemic laid bare pre-existing societal fault lines, placing immense strain on intergroup relations and giving rise to xenophobic sentiments. Drawing on Realistic Conflict Theory (RCT) and Social Identity Approach (SIA), our study examined how the public allocation of COVID-19 variant...