Attitudes toward Highly Skilled and Low-skilled Immigration: Evidence from a Survey Experiment—Erratum

Hainmueller, Jens; Hiscox, Michael

doi:10.1017/s0003055410000389

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“…Similarly, evidence from Denmark and Germany shows that highly skilled immigrants are preferred (Fietkau and Hansen 2018). With regard to the labour market competition hypothesis, research in the US shows that 'both low-skilled and highly skilled natives strongly prefer highly skilled immigrants over low-skilled immigrants, and this preference is not decreasing in natives' skill levels' (Hainmueler and Hiscox 2010). Yet, adding an ethnic descriptor lowers support (España-Nájera and Vera 2020).…”

Section: Immigrant Characteristicsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Immigration within the European Union Increases Support for Eurosceptic Parties

Toshkov¹

2021

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What are the political consequences of immigration? Theoretically, the mechanisms of intergroup contact and outgroup threat can lead to contradictory effects, and it remains uncertain which one would prevail in different contexts. In this article I study the impact of immigration from Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) on support for Eurosceptic parties between 2004 and 2019 in the Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Italy and Portugal. I find that higher levels of immigration from CEE are systematically related to higher voting shares cast for right-wing Eurosceptic parties at the local level in all of these countries, net of the influence of non-Western immigration. In most countries, the effects are also robust to including a rich set of local-level socio-economic controls. These effects can be found in elections for the European Parliament as well as in national elections. The effects have not diminished over the past 15 years and are most visible in mid-sized localities. The effect on left-wing Euroscepticism is positive in the Netherlands, but negative in Denmark, Sweden and Italy. These results highlight the tension between free movement and political support for European integration. Even in the European Union, immigration from other member states can trigger hostile political reactions.

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Section: Immigrant Characteristicsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Immigration within the European Union Increases Support for Eurosceptic Parties

Toshkov¹

2021

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“…More highly educated individuals also tend to be less culturally threatened by immigration. This is thought to be because educated individuals are more likely to establish a “cultural affinity” for immigrants, helping them view immigration in a more positive light (Hainmueller and Hiscox, 2007, 2010). So, it is not surprising that recent empirical evidence finds that education as a form of “cultural capital” dampens the relationship between high national immigration and the person’s perception of threat (Manevska and Achterberg, 2013).…”

Section: Theoretical Expectationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

A threat from within? Perceptions of immigration in an enlarging European Union

Jeannet

2020

Acta Sociologica

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Scholars have taken a considerable interest in how global immigration to Europe generates public concern, but we still know little about the role that migration from within the European region has in fueling apprehensions. To better understand this, I examine how public attitudes towards immigration have responded to migration following the European Union’s most extensive enlargement along its eastern border in 2004. Using recent advances in multilevel modeling, this article analyzes the longitudinal, cross-sectional relationship between east–west internal European migration on public attitudes towards the economic and cultural aspects of immigration in Western Europe using individual-level data from the European Social Survey (2004–2014). The results demonstrate that growing populations of Central and Eastern European foreigners have contributed to Western Europeans’ perception of immigration as an economic threat, even when taking into account simultaneous immigration from outside Europe. Moreover, the relationship between east–west immigration and an individual’s perception of immigration as a threat is conditional upon their socio-economic status. These findings underscore how within-European immigration in Western Europe has become consequential to the public’s attitudes about immigration more generally.

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“…To begin with, the crimes Trump describes are chilling in their details, directing attention to the self-interest of individual safety. This is another rhetorical tactic used by immigration hardliners, one that has proven to be more effective in shaping policy debates than, say, arguments based in wide-ranging humanitarian concerns (Hainmueller and Hiscox 2010;Holland 2014;Mehan 1997). Furthermore, the sheer horror of these crimes makes it difficult to not feel compassion for the victims and, thus, be pulled into Trump's discourse, at least in this respect.…”

Section: Not People But Animals: Migrant Criminality and Incidents Omentioning

confidence: 99%