Host society

I am almost confident that most of you would not open the door to a Syrian refugee if you have the slightest doubt that this person could harm you in any way. I am also confident that this doubt and fear could be explained and dissolved and that inclusion could triumph.
In this paper, I posit that the similarity-attraction hypothesis, the integrated threat theory(ITT), the contact hypothesis, the common in-group identity model, and the mutual identity differentiation model could clarify some of the factors that are at stake when it comes to the inclusion and the integration of the Syrian refugees in host societies.

Tourism is the main economic activity in many towns in the province of Alicante in southeast
Spain and has turned this area into a paradigmatic example of mass tourism on the Mediterranean coast. Since the 1960s, the province's coastal towns have opted for a development model
centred on what is known as 'residential tourism' or 'second-home tourism', with few exceptions,
such as Benidorm. We wish to put forward the argument that the main social agents in the
tourism sector have not perceived the 'search for authenticity' as a factor that may attract tourists
to this area. To this end, we will start by reviewing critically the theoretical discourse about the
role played by authenticity in the motivation of tourists. Then we will discuss some of the results
obtained from empirical, qualitative research that included 37 in-depth interviews. As a guide for
our empirical research, we use a model based on the stakeholder theory. The epistemological
difficulties faced by researchers do not justify certain critical arguments that try to highlight the
impossibility of operationalising essential concepts and approaches such as that of authenticity.
Therefore, it is necessary that empirical research continues to delve into the sociological keys that
determine the 'search for authenticity' in the tourists' experience

There has been a vast amount of research on the changes experienced by immigrants, but little is known about the changes experienced by host individuals. This article focuses on the role of host individuals in the networks of relations between immigrant populations and the communities from the dominant culture, as well as the changes experienced by host individuals because of their continuous contact with immigrants. This research applied a network approach to the study of the acculturation of host individuals. Two independent studies were carried out: a systematic analysis of the personal networks of Argentinean (n = 67), Ecuadorian (n = 59), Italian (n = 37) and German (n = 37) residents in Seville and Cadiz (Spain) (Study 1); and an ethnographic study with human service workers for Latin American immigrants in Boston (USA) (Study 2). With two different strategies, the role of host individuals in personal networks of foreigners in the United States and Spain was analyzed. The results show that host individuals tend to have less centrality than compatriots, showing an overall secondary role in the personal networks of immigrants. The lowest average centrality was observed in recent and temporal migrants, whereas the highest corresponded to the individuals with more time of residence in Spain. The personal networks of human service providers in the United States vary in ethnic composition and in their structural properties, and therefore shape different types of integrative bridges for immigrants.