“Judging by the cover”: A grounded theory study of bullying towards same-country and immigrant peers

Angela Mazzone, Robert Thornberg, Sara Stefanelli, Livia Cadei and Simona C.S. Caravita

Children and Youth Services Review, 2018, vol. 91, issue C, 403-412

Abstract: This study investigated students' perspectives about bullying towards same-country and immigrant peers. Thirty-five Italian and immigrant students (age range: 11–15) took part to the study. Participants were probed with two bullying scenarios, depicting respectively a new classmate from another Italian city and from a foreign country. A Grounded Theory approach was adopted to examine participants' perspectives about the motives for bullying. Findings showed that a process of socializing deviance is at the core of both forms of bullying. This social process refers to a series of shared beliefs within the peer group about the victim's deviant features. Three sub-categories related to both forms of bullying emerged from the core concept: (a) Rejecting the newcomer deviance, (b) Rejecting physical deviance, (c) and Rejecting personality deviance. These sub-categories were related to the sub-categories of bullying towards immigrant peers: (d) Rejecting cultural deviance, (e) and Learned racism. Findings are discussed in terms of their theoretical and practical relevance.

Keywords: School bullying; Racial bullying; Victimization; Immigrant adolescents; Constructivist grounded theory (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1016/j.childyouth.2018.06.029

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