Currently, Europe is dealing with a large number of asylum seekers. A recent report show that attitudes toward asylum seekers are not that negative in the Netherlands, and yet Dutch citizens living close to asylum seeker centers barely have contact with them. Because contact is vital for a multicultural society, we investigated the facilitators and barriers for Dutch citizens to establish and maintain contact with asylum seekers where they live close together. We conducted semistructured interviews with Dutch people and analyzed them using thematic analysis. We found four themes: Physical possibilities for Contact, Goals for Contact, Social Identities, and Positivity and Openness, and proposed a grounded theory model based on how the themes are related. The findings are discussed in relation to debates on multiculturalism and intergroup tolerance, and can be used to improve the integration policies by local governments, because they present clear conditions and practical information as to how contact can be established and maintained.

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寻求庇护者与其荷兰邻居之间联系的促进因素和障碍

目前，欧洲正在处理大量寻求庇护者。最近的一份报告显示，荷兰对寻求庇护者的态度并没有那么消极，但居住在寻求庇护者中心附近的荷兰公民几乎没有与他们接触。由于接触对于多元文化社会至关重要，我们调查了荷兰公民与居住在附近的寻求庇护者建立和保持联系的促进因素和障碍。我们对荷兰人进行了半结构化访谈，并使用主题分析对其进行了分析。我们发现了四个主题：接触的物理可能性、接触的目标、社会身份、积极性和开放性, 并根据主题的相关性提出了一个扎根的理论模型。研究结果与关于多元文化主义和群体间容忍度的辩论相关进行讨论，并可用于改善地方政府的融合政策，因为它们为如何建立和保持联系提供了明确的条件和实用信息。