Attitudes towards Roma people and migrants: a comparison through a Bayesian multidimensional IRT model

Fontanella, Lara; Villano, Paola; Donato, Marika Di

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“…For example, Strabac and Listhaug ( 2008 ) found that the percentage of the majority population in Europe objecting to Muslims as neighbors is higher than that objecting to immigrants (in general) as neighbors (Strabac and Listhaug, 2008 ). Fontanella et al ( 2016 , p. 487) suggest that Roma people are the most rejected ethnic group in Europe concluding that “the Roma people continue to be the most discriminated even with respect to migrants and to be classified as a separate reality to which we will not ever get used.”…”

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“…This approach can be problematic because members of the public may have in mind different types of immigrants when asked to report their views on a general category of immigrants (Blinder, 2015 ). The small and quite recent body of research that distinguishes between groups of immigrants by ethnic or religious origin found that in the European context attitudes toward immigrants vary across groups being more negative toward ethnic minorities (Gorodzeisky and Semyonov, 2009 ; Ford, 2011 ; Ben-Nun Bloom et al, 2015 ); and that opposition is especially pronounced in the case of Muslim (Strabac and Listhaug, 2008 ; Hellwig and Sinno, 2017 ) and Roma out-group populations (Fontanella et al, 2016 ).…”

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Unwelcome Immigrants: Sources of Opposition to Different Immigrant Groups Among Europeans

Gorodzeisky

Semyonov

2019

Front. Sociol.

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The present paper advances the proposition that level of opposition to immigration (i.e., endorsement of closure or exclusion) and its sources are not uniform and vary across immigrant groups. To test this proposition we utilize data from the 2014 European Social Survey for 20 countries and apply the analysis to the following groups: immigrants of same race/ethnic group as a majority population, immigrants of different race/ethnic group, Muslim, Jewish, and Roma immigrants. The analysis reveals that level of opposition to immigration of different ethno-religious groups in Europe is hierarchical, being most extreme toward Muslims and Roma and quite minor toward people of the same ethnic/race groups as well as toward Jews. Further analysis reveals that not only the level of opposition varies across groups but also the sources that drive such opposition. In general, the sources of opposition to immigration can be divided to 2 major categories: universal sources and group-specific sources. The universal sources (sources which increase opposition toward all immigrants regardless of their origin) pertain to threat of competition over socio-economic and symbolic resources. The group-specific sources consist of racism, fear of crime, and inter-group contact. Racism and lack of inter-group contact tend to increase opposition that is exclusive to Muslim and to Roma immigrants. Racism, however, does not increase opposition that is exclusive to immigrants belonging to a race/ethnicity, which is different from most country people. Fear of crime is likely to prompt opposition that is exclusive to immigrants of different race/ethnic group and to Roma but not toward Muslims. The findings underscore the multiple sources underlying emergence of anti-immigrant sentiment, in general, and opposition to specific groups of immigrants, in particular.

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Unwelcome Immigrants: Sources of Opposition to Different Immigrant Groups Among Europeans

Gorodzeisky

Semyonov

2019

Front. Sociol.

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“…Furthermore, Roma people are sometimes treated with a severe disregard for human rights even in countries with stronger egalitarian norms. For example, Italy has been condemned for relegating Roma people to nomadic camps (European Roma Rights Centre [ERRC], 2000), and a survey revealed the commonness of open, direct, and racist attitudes on the one hand, and dehumanization on the other, even among less prejudiced individuals (Fontanella, Villano, & Di Donato, 2016). Similarly, France has been heavily criticized for collectively criminalizing and deporting Roma people (Castle & Bennhold, 2010).…”

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The last acceptable prejudice in Europe? Anti-Gypsyism as the obstacle to Roma inclusion

Kende

Hadarics

Bigazzi

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Group Processes & Intergroup Relations

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National and European policies aim to facilitate the integration of Roma people into mainstream society. Yet, Europe’s largest ethnic group continues to be severely discriminated. Although prejudice has been identified to be at the core of this failure, social psychological research on anti-Gypsyism remains scarce. We conducted a study in six countries using student and community samples ( N = 2,089; Hungary, Romania, Slovakia, Norway, Italy, Spain) to understand how anti-Gypsyism among majority-group members predicts unfavorable acculturation preferences toward Roma people. Openly negative stereotypes predicted acculturation preferences strongly across the countries. However, stereotypes about the Roma receiving undeserved benefits were also relevant to some degree in East-Central Europe, implying that intergroup relations are framed there as realistic conflict. Stereotypes about traditional Roma culture did not play a central role in acculturation preferences. Our findings highlighted that anti-Gypsyism may be an impediment to integration efforts, and efforts should be context-specific rather than pan-national.

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“…Roma people represent the outsider who is excluded from society. Fontanella, Villano and Di Donato [2015] suggest that this happens especially in the case of those with greater national identity and those who are more likely to show a larger prejudicial predisposition towards Roma people and also migrants. They add that Roma are 'the most discriminated even with respect to migrants' [Fontanella, Villano and Di Donato 2015: 17].…”

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The Electoral Success of the Extreme Right: Is the Presence of a Minority Important?

Bahna

Zagrapan

2020

Czech Sociological Review

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Anti-minority rhetoric as an almost universal feature of extremeright parties is often analytically and empirically linked to their electoral success. This article tests the link between the presence of an outgroup and the vote for the extreme right in an attempt to explain the electoral success of the first openly anti-system extreme-right party to enter the Slovak parliament in 2016. A multilevel approach is used to analyse the connection between Roma presence in a municipality and extreme-right support while controlling for the individual characteristics of voters. Analysis using exit-poll data covering 161 municipalities and 20 128 voters reveals no relationship between the presence of Roma in a municipality and support for the extreme right. A partial exception seems to be observed for older voters and the university-educated, who are generally the least inclined to far-right support. Interaction effects suggest that, for these groups, Roma presence might be connected to a higher probability to cast a vote for the extreme right. However, a notably higher chance of voting for the extreme right was associated with young, male, manual labourers and people without university education.

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Attitudes towards Roma people and migrants: a comparison through a Bayesian multidimensional IRT model

Cited by 14 publications

References 30 publications

Unwelcome Immigrants: Sources of Opposition to Different Immigrant Groups Among Europeans

Unwelcome Immigrants: Sources of Opposition to Different Immigrant Groups Among Europeans

The last acceptable prejudice in Europe? Anti-Gypsyism as the obstacle to Roma inclusion

The Electoral Success of the Extreme Right: Is the Presence of a Minority Important?

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