Determinants of People’s Attitudes Towards Immigrants in Europe

Paas, Tiiu; Halapuu, Vivika

doi:10.2139/ssrn.2137084

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“…Both sides of trust-lack of generalized trust as well as lack of trust of institutions can elevate potential conflict in societies, although their mechanisms of influence are different. Additionally, persons who do not trust other people and do not trust state institutions tend to be less tolerant of immigrants [27,28].…”

Section: Migration Regional Differences and Conflictsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Regional disparities of Immigration-related conflict risks: the case of Estonia

Ainsaar,

Maasing,

Kovaljov

et al. 2024

Sustainable Development

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Regional disparities are one of the sources of social inequality. The empirical study is based on theoretical concept of components of immigration-related ethnic conflicts. The chapter analyses immigration-related conflict risks sources. These conflicts manifest as tensions arising from the interaction between newcomers, often hailing from diverse cultural and ethnic backgrounds, and the established population. This study provides insights into immigration-related ethnic conflict risk levels across 75 Estonian municipalities, offering an understanding of regional risk factors and regional distribution of risks. Using the risk components, we quantify immigration-related conflict risk and use hierarchical cluster analysis to categorize municipalities into distinct types by interaction of conflict components. The empirical analyses reveal segregation of immigration-related ethnic conflict risk; however, this risk varies significantly among different municipality groups and is to a certain extent related with immigration. Three different groups of municipalities can be distinguished in Estonia. A total of 30% of all municipalities have elevated risk levels. In these municipalities, the readiness for conflict is higher than linear interaction with migration rates would predict. We conclude that immigration-related ethnic conflicts are dynamic phenomena shaped by the interplay of immigration processes and pre-existing ethnic divisions within societies.

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Section: Migration Regional Differences and Conflictsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Regional disparities of Immigration-related conflict risks: the case of Estonia

Ainsaar,

Maasing,

Kovaljov

et al. 2024

Sustainable Development

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“…At a macro level, in countries with the lower gross domestic product (GDP) and where people live in greater poverty, attitudes towards migration are more negative [43].…”

Section: Immigrants As a Source Of Labor -The Disadvantagesmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Differential Impact of Immigration on the Welfare State in Times of Population Ageing A Literature Review

Chen

2023

LNEP

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Against the background of the declining birth rate and the increasing number of elderly people, the labour market shortage caused by the ageing population puts considerable financial pressure on the welfare state. Previous literature has proposed associated solutions, and opening up immigration policies has received increasing attention as one of the possible approaches. However, there is not enough research to prove how effective immigration actually is in ameliorating the financial pressures of an ageing population on the welfare state. By innovatively introducing the variable of type of welfare state, this paper explores the different preferences of different countries in choosing immigrants as workforces in the face of population ageing. It concludes that immigration has a more pronounced effect on improving the demographics of liberal and conservative welfare states and fills a research gap in the relationship between immigration and the welfare state.

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“…Individual economic theory asserts that individuals with less economic security, such as those with lower education, a lack of professional skills, or fewer financial resources, tend to have more restrictive ATII (Paas and Halapuu, 2012). The social capital perspective emphasizes an individual's education, social networks and resources, and psychosocial traits such as social trust (Hainmueller and Hiscox, 2007).…”

Section: Perceived Group Threat and Individual-level Perspectivesmentioning

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Receptivity to different types of migrants in Taiwan: Civic behavior and support for same-sex marriage as novel correlates

Chang

2021

Current Sociology

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In an era of rising global intra-regional migration, in-depth explorations of attitudes toward immigrants and immigration (ATII) in emerging migrant-receiving societies in Asia are scarce. Using Taiwan as a case of an emerging non-Western, democratic migrant-receiving context with a racially homogeneous population, aging social structure, and vibrant civic culture, this is the first study to examine receptivity to three major migrant types. The study contributes to the ATII literature and sociological research through discovering something old (perceived group threat of foreign professionals and labor migrants at the individual level), something new (link between positive attitudes toward same-sex marriage and higher receptivity to blue-collar migrants), something borrowed (civic behavior), and something context-specific (effect of the high visibility of marriage immigrants in certain places on receptivity). This study highlights the importance of uncovering patterns and mechanisms of nativity-, ethnicity-, and class-based foreigner exclusionism in emerging non-Western migrant destinations. The findings on receptivity toward intra-Asia migrants in a 21st-century Asian society illuminate possibilities for reinventing theories on the social organization of difference and the socio-cognitive construction of ethnicity, with broader relevance to inter-minority relations among Asians in traditional Western immigrant societies.

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Determinants of People’s Attitudes Towards Immigrants in Europe

Cited by 8 publications

References 21 publications

Regional disparities of Immigration-related conflict risks: the case of Estonia

Regional disparities of Immigration-related conflict risks: the case of Estonia

The Differential Impact of Immigration on the Welfare State in Times of Population Ageing A Literature Review

Receptivity to different types of migrants in Taiwan: Civic behavior and support for same-sex marriage as novel correlates

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