Social construction of negative emotions from ascribed crimes to Afghan residents in Shiraz, Towards a grounded theory

During some decades ago, Iran hosted much more Afghan refugees. Different researches, content analyses of speeches, legislatives interviews and different social news show that negative emotions toward Afghans exist among some part of people and legislatives, so that they recognize Afghans as criminals. Therefore, the purpose of this study was Social construction of these negative emotions formations. In this way, by usages of qualitative method and grounded theory and by theoretical sampling, deep interviews have done with a group of Shirazi citizens who has negative emotions toward afghan refugees and data have analyzed by open, axial and selective coding. Research findings include 23 main categories, 54 secondary categories and 289 concepts. In sum up, these categories presented in one final category of “construction of rape and attack phobia”. In this way, social processes leading to negative emotions formations in participants analyzed and narrated. Also, paradigmatic model depicted and substantive and micro level theory from negative emotions formations from ascribed crimes to Afghan presented.