Attitudes towards immigrants, other integration barriers, and their veracity

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“…If natives’ negative attitudes toward immigrants represent a barrier for immigrants’ success in the destination country and reflect actual ethnic discrimination (Zimmermann et al. ; Constant, Kahanec, and Zimmermann ; Carlsson and Eriksson ), anti‐immigrant sentiment is likely to add a “cost” on immigrants. Following this argument, we hypothesize that countries with more open attitudes receive larger migrant inflows.…”

High-skilled immigrants in times of crisis. A cross-European analysis

“…Such attitudes find echoes in the "silent counter-revolution" (Ignazi, 2006), which enabled the most traditional groups to voice up their conservative and intolerant views in order to fight against the societal trend toward postmodernization. Even before the recession started, there were trends to indicate that discrimination against ethnic minorities was steadfast or growing in all 27 EU countries (Constant, Kahanec, & Zimmermann, 2009). The extent to which discrimination also affects highly skilled immigrants, however, is a matter of controversy.…”

Job and Life Satisfaction Among Part-time and Full-time Workers: The “Identity” Approach

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“…References to problems with language and discrimination suggest that this effect may be due to a relatively high incidence of foreign workers in this group (Constant et al 2009). …”