ABSTRACT
Attitudes toward immigrants and obstacles to their successful integration into receiving societies have emerged as important areas of investigation for the 21st century. Immigration rates have risen to unprecedented levels globally, and Western countries increasingly depend on immigrants to maintain their population size and labor force (UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs, 2004). As a result, the reactions of members of receiving societies to immigrants and immigration are of importance both for the achievement and well-being of immigrants, and for the economic and social well-being of the receiving societies.
