Majority group and minority group: risk profiles of bullies who overwhelm immigrant classmates

There are still few studies about bullying against immigrants. Ethnic bullying is present in schools and non-Italian students are more victims than Italian adolescents (members of the majority group) (Elamè, 2013). In ethnic bullying there is a more relevant component of prejudice than other factors (Caravita et al., 2016). At the moment there are not enough data to identify a risk profile of the inter-ethnic bullies. Hypothesis. Italian bullies (a majority group in society) who overwhelm non-Italian schoolmates (minority groups in society) have different risk profiles than bullies who attack Italian classmates.