Contested terrain: explaining divergent patterns of public opinion towards immigration within Europe

Heath, Anthony; Davidov, Eldad; Ford, Robert; Green, Eva G. T.; Ramos, Alice; Schmidt, Péter

doi:10.1080/1369183x.2019.1550145

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“…Moreover, according to the Model of Justified Discrimination (Pereira, Vala, and Costa-Lopes 2010), it is hypothesised that perceptions of symbolic and realistic threat function as legitimising factors of discrimination, mainly in social contexts where the anti-racism norm is more salient. The hypotheses tested in this paper are part of an overall model to explain opposition to immigration presented in the introduction of this special issue (Heath et al 2020).…”

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The impact of biological and cultural racisms on attitudes towards immigrants and immigration public policies

Ramos

Pereira

Vala

2019

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

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Based on ESS-7 data, this paper focuses on two attitudinal dimensions about public policies related to immigration: how many can come and who can come. In this context, the hypothesis concerning the bi-dimensionality of racism was supported and, as predicted, biological racism is more antinormative than cultural racism. Both biological and cultural racism predict opposition to immigration and adhesion to ethnicist criteria on the selection of immigrants. As hypothesised, the relationship between racism and opposition to immigration and adhesion to ethnicist criteria is mediated by threat perceptions. Specifically, symbolic and realistic threats mediate the effect of biological and cultural racism on opposition to immigration and on ethnicist criteria. The hypothesis that the mediation effects are moderated by the country's quality of democracy was supported, indicating that the mediation effects are stronger in countries with a higher quality of democracy. Results are discussed within the context of racism theories as a bi-dimensional concept and in the framework of the role of legitimation processes in social discrimination.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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The impact of biological and cultural racisms on attitudes towards immigrants and immigration public policies

Ramos

Pereira

Vala

2019

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

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“…Such a general justice principle would transcend the competing ideas of what is just, calming what might appear to be an inherent instability of migration restriction regimes. Indeed, the multi-country empirical work reported and discussed in Heath et al (2020) and the references cited therein, such as Davidov et al (2020), together with single-country studies such as Jasso (1988b), Diehl and Steinmann (2012a,b), and Diehl et al (2018), may yield the components for a new general principle of justice about migration.…”

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“…Migration restriction regimes reflect the attitudes and thinking of people and their countries. Even the briefest review of the literature on attitudes toward immigration suggests nontrivial variation across individuals, across countries, and over time (e.g., see for Europe, Heath et al, 2020; and for the United States, Smith andEdmonston, 1997, p. 389-393 andWaters andPineau, 2015, p. 47-50, 147-148). As Heath et al (2020, p. 475) observe, "Understanding what drives these... variations in public support for or opposition to immigration is therefore an issue of central importance for academics and policymakers alike.…”

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Analyzing Migration Restriction Regimes

Jasso

2021

Front. Sociol.

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This paper develops a framework for analyzing migration restriction regimes, and illustrates it with the case of U.S. immigration law and policy. Nation-states regulate the entry of foreign-born persons, and this regulation comprises three elements: the type of restriction, the apparatus of restriction, and the consequences of restriction. Restriction may be based on personal characteristics, numerical ceilings, or both. Personal restriction notices the characteristics of persons, using them as criteria for granting or denying admission. Numerical restriction places numerical ceilings on admissions. The apparatus of restriction may stipulate specific ceilings, whether some groups are exempt from the ceiling and, if so, by what criteria, and whether admission under the ceiling is first-come/first-served or by lottery or instead preferential and, if so, by what criteria. Two unintended consequences follow immediately: unauthorized migration (under both personal and numerical restriction); and visa-number backlogs (under numerical restriction). These in turn generate a range of policy devices: border enforcement, procedures for legalization and deportation, and procedures for clearing backlogs. Indeed, the history of a country's immigration law may be understood as a sequence of measures for first setting up the apparatus of restriction and then altering it in order not only to re-examine provisions of the initial setup but also to address unauthorized migration and visa-number backlogs. Viewing migration through this lens enables assessment of particular legislation and, more broadly, dynamics of a migration restriction regime, subject to world circumstances, including its possible inherent instability. The migration restriction lens also generates new metrics for a country's attractiveness and its innovativeness and creativity. To illustrate, the paper examines the migration restriction regime in the United States since the country's founding. Finally, the paper provides a checklist for a migration restriction setup that doubles as the basis for table shells for summarizing a country's migration restriction regime and its history.

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“…A multitude of articles contributing to the study of citizens' attitudes and opinions about immigrants and immigration policies, including their determinants and consequents, have been published based on survey data, for example, from the European Social Survey (Heath et al, 2019) or other international large-scale surveys. Indeed, opposition of members of the host society to immigration, their perceptions of threat due to immigrants and immigration, or preferences regarding immigration and integration policies, are just some of the topics that have been addressed from the perspective of the host society members (Ceobanu & Escandell, 2010;Hainmueller & Hopkins, 2014).…”

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Immigration from the Immigrants’ Perspective: Analyzing Survey Data Collected among Immigrants and Host Society Members

Ramos

Davidov

Schmidt

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Immigration has been one of the most crucial global phenomena, changing the fabric of many societies, and a topic of substantial research. Much of this research has focused on how the host society views immigrants and immigration, or on the societal factors influencing the latter. The goal of this thematic issue is to present different studies focusing on various aspects of immigration from a perspective that has not been often viewed under the magnifying glass so far, but which is of major importance: looking at immigration from the immigrants’ point of view.

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Contested terrain: explaining divergent patterns of public opinion towards immigration within Europe

Cited by 67 publications

References 59 publications

The impact of biological and cultural racisms on attitudes towards immigrants and immigration public policies

The impact of biological and cultural racisms on attitudes towards immigrants and immigration public policies

Analyzing Migration Restriction Regimes

Immigration from the Immigrants’ Perspective: Analyzing Survey Data Collected among Immigrants and Host Society Members

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