Anti-immigrant Attitudes in Russia: The Group Position Model Reconsidered

Brunarska, Zuzanna

doi:10.1080/09668136.2019.1618791

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“…In the light of previous results obtained in relation to attitudes toward the general category of immigrants (cf. Brunarska 2019), the obtained findings suggest that when respondents in Russia answer a general question on attitudes toward immigrants, they tend to have immigrants of southern origin in mind. This is in line with Kustov’s (2019) suggestion that people do not have groups of higher status in mind when thinking about a general category of immigrants.…”

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“…Despite the results of survey research showing that attitudes toward different ethnic or migrant groups vary in Russia, previous theory-driven studies have often limited their considerations to attitudes toward a general category of immigrants, not distinguishing between different target groups (Alexseev 2010(Alexseev , 2011Bahry 2016;Brunarska 2019;Gorodzeisky, Glikman, and Maskileyson 2015;Grigoryan 2016). A notable exception is the study by Bessudnov (2016), who noted that theory-driven associations between attitudes toward immigrants and their predictors (immigrant concentration in his case) are present only for immigrants from the Caucasus and Central, East, and Southeast Asia, while they do not prove significant for migrants of Ukrainian and Moldovan origin.…”

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“…Alexseev 2010; Minescu and Poppe 2011 for interethnic relations). Brunarska (2019) explains this pattern of results with reference to two theoretical perspectives: social dominance theory (Pratto et al 1994) and the group position model (Bobo and Hutchings 1996). The former posits that members of high-status groups show greater out-group prejudice than members of low-status groups due to higher levels of social dominance orientation, which may explain the operation of group position in the case of ethnic Russians.…”

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“…At the subnational level, in turn, they proved to be differently related to the in-group position. While a majority status at a regional level held by ethnic Russians seems to promote anti-immigrant attitudes (Brunarska 2019; cf. Hraba et al 1997), in the case of members of titular ethnic groups, majority status at a regional level seems to inhibit exclusionist attitudes toward immigrants (Brunarska 2019; cf.…”

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“…While a majority status at a regional level held by ethnic Russians seems to promote anti-immigrant attitudes (Brunarska 2019; cf. Hraba et al 1997), in the case of members of titular ethnic groups, majority status at a regional level seems to inhibit exclusionist attitudes toward immigrants (Brunarska 2019; cf. Alexseev 2010; Minescu and Poppe 2011 for interethnic relations).…”

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This article analyzes the relationship between the relative position of an ethnic group, as measured by its majority/minority status at a subnational level, and attitudes of its members toward immigrants of different origins. Based on the Russian case, it addresses the question whether the effects of in-group majority status within a region on attitudes toward the general category of immigrants hold regardless of out-group origin and, if not, what may drive this variation. Using data from the Russia Longitudinal Monitoring Survey of the Higher School of Economics and Bayesian hierarchical structural equation modeling, the study demonstrates that the relative position of an ethnic in-group is of varying importance as a predictor of attitudes toward migrant groups of European versus non-European origin in Russia. A group’s majority status within a region proved to play a role in predicting attitudes toward migrants originating from the “south” (encompassing North and South Caucasus; Central Asia; and China, Vietnam, and Korea) but not toward migrants coming from the “west” (Ukraine and Moldova). We draw on arguments related to the source and the level of threat induced by the out-groups, ethnic hierarchies, and group cues to explain this pattern of results.

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