Attitudes and Values of Young Men with and Without Migration and Refugee History in Relation to Gender and Equality

The public discourse about shared values and attitudes within the German majority society reached its preliminary peak against the backdrop of increased refugee migration in 2015. Images of people fleeing war, violence, and hunger from Syria, Afghanistan, or Iraq via the Balkan route, seeking protection and refuge in Europe, went viral in the summer of 2015. To avert a looming humanitarian catastrophe in Europe, the federal government under Chancellor Angela Merkel granted several hundred thousand people the opportunity to find protection in Germany and apply for asylum.