Abstract:

Immigrants experience social, economic, political and psychological problems. One of the most fundamental of these problems is the integration problems they experience in the place where they migrated. In this study, the concept of immigration is used for all types of immigration which people immigrate or migrate or emigrate from their country or homeland to another country or somewhere else in their country for any reason. Therefore, immigration concept in this study contains refugee, assylum seeker, labor migration etc. In this context, this study aims to examine the importance of contact in the social integration of immigrant students and the effect of contact in reducing prejudice and discriminatory attitudes towards immigrant students. Within the scope of the study, research articles published in Turkish and English languages in Web of Science and DergiPark databases for the integration of immigrant children to school after the year 2000 were analyzed by content analysis. As a result of 47 articles examined in the context of the study, researches were found on the types of 'direct contact' (positive and negative contacts) and 'indirect contact' (e-contact, expansionist contact, imaginary contact, para-social contact, and intergenerational transmission contact). In most of these studies, the effect of intergroup contact on reducing prejudice and discriminatory attitudes towards immigrant students has been examined and it has been thought that all types of contact reduce negative attitudes towards immigrant students and may have an important role in improving the integration of immigrant students.

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