Geographical stigma in Algerian society: a field study on a sample of migrants to major cities.

Abstract

Geographical stigma is one of the most important types of stigma, especially in traditional, rural or newly urbanized societies, where the characteristics of rural culture such as neuralism and tribalism prevail strongly. Accordingly, this study aimed to reveal the forms and manifestations of geographical stigma in Algerian society, based on the descriptive and analytical method, through a questionnaire distributed to a sample of 85 migrants. The study has reached a set of results, the most important of which are: The forms of geographical stigma in Algerian society vary between direct and indirect forms. There were no significant differences at the 0.05 level in terms of exposure to geographical stigma by sex variable, educational level, seniority in the receiving region.