Europeans support a proportional allocation of asylum seekers

Bansak, Kirk; Hainmueller, Jens; Hangartner, Dominik

doi:10.1038/s41562-017-0133

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“…Large states that have the financial means and a relatively small migrant population should accept more migrants than others. According to Bansak et al (2017), this principle of Graph 2 Immigration acceptance across subgroups. Marginal means to accept migrants who left their home countries for different reasons.…”

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“…To test whether or not cost-related arguments affect the respondents' willingness to accept climate change migrants, the survey sought to elicit participants' self-interest by providing arguments for the potential number of climate change migrants (Bansak et al 2017). While there seems to be a broad agreement that climate change has an important direct or indirect impact on migration flows, studies continue to debate whether or not these migrants move to Western countries.…”

Section: Reasons To Accept Climate Change Migrantsmentioning

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Attitudes towards climate change migrants

Helbling

2020

Climatic Change

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While climate change has become a salient political and social issue in Western societies, we know relatively little about how these societies will react to one of the potentially important consequences of climate change: increasing migration flows. By means of a representative online survey in Germany, this paper therefore investigates for the very first time to what extent citizens in industrialized societies are willing to accept climate change migrants, especially in comparison with other groups of migrants and refugees, and the circumstances and principles under which they would accept them. The findings show that climate change migrants receive high support levels comparable with those enjoyed by political refugees (migrants who need special protection) and that contrast with attitudes towards economic migrants (who are often not seen as in need of special protection). We also see that people are more likely to accept justifications for taking climate change migrants when they realize that the expected number of migrants is relatively low. While arguments about morality, corrective justice, and a country's capacity lead to similar acceptance rates in general, the latter argument plays a more important role for highly educated people and non-environmentalists than the former two. The findings of this study allow us to better prepare for potential conflicts that might emerge with increasing migration flows caused by climate change.

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Section: Reasons To Accept Climate Change Migrantsmentioning

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Section: Reasons To Accept Climate Change Migrantsmentioning

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Attitudes towards climate change migrants

Helbling

2020

Climatic Change

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“…Does the influx of refugees increase support for extreme-right parties? Despite heated debates about asylum policies and the allocation of refugees across Europe (Bansak, Hainmueller, and Hangartner 2017), there exists very little evidence regarding the impact of refugee arrivals on native voters' political preferences and behavior. While there is a sizeable literature that documents a positive relationship between labor migration and vote shares for anti-immigrant parties in receiving countries (Barone et al 2016;Mendez and Cutillas 2014;Halla, Wagner, and Zweimüller 2015;Brunner and Kuhn 2014;Becker et al 2016), it is unclear how these findings translate to the context of refugee migration.…”

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Waking Up the Golden Dawn: Does Exposure to the Refugee Crisis Increase Support for Extreme-Right Parties?

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Does exposure to the refugee crisis fuel support for extreme-right parties? Despite heated debates about the political repercussions of the refugee crisis in Europe, there exists very little—and sometimes conflicting—evidence with which to assess the impact of a large influx of refugees on natives’ political attitudes and behavior. We provide causal evidence from a natural experiment in Greece, where some Aegean islands close to the Turkish border experienced sudden and drastic increases in the number of Syrian refugees while other islands slightly farther away—but with otherwise similar institutional and socioeconomic characteristics—did not. Placebo tests suggest that precrisis trends in vote shares for exposed and nonexposed islands were virtually identical. This allows us to obtain unbiased estimates of the electoral consequences of the refugee crisis. Our study shows that among islands that faced a massive but transient inflow of refugees passing through just before the September 2015 election, vote shares for Golden Dawn, the most extreme-right party in Europe, moderately increased by 2 percentage points (a 44 percent increase at the average). The finding that mere exposure to the refugee crisis is sufficient to fuel support for extreme-right parties has important implications for our theoretical understanding of the drivers of antirefugee backlash.

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“…An increased ‘securitization’ of migration discourses strengthens the perception of refugees as a threat (Hammerstad, ). Furthermore, popular opposition to refugee admission is common in European countries (Bansak et al, ) and public discourses associate refugees with economic burdens (Baker et al, ). Higher numbers of refugees increase the likelihood of extremist violence against refugees (Koopmans, ) and the electoral fortune of radical right‐wing parties (Hangartner et al, ).…”

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Humanitarian Protection as a European Public Good: The Strategic Role of States and Refugees

Lutz

Kaufmann

Stünzi

2020

J of Common Market Studies

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The surge of refugees arriving in Europe has accentuated the malfunctioning of the common European asylum system: the lack of coordination between nation states and failure in the common protection of refugees were the main outcomes of the so-called refugee crisis. This article builds on the literature on public goods and policy compliance in order to explain the failure of European countries to provide humanitarian protection to refugees. A sequential gametheoretical model serves to demonstrate the strategic interaction between states and refugees in European asylum policy. The analysis demonstrates that although both groups of actors benefit from a functioning European asylum system, they also have few incentives to contribute to the public good. States aim to reduce their individual refugee burden and refugees seek protection in their preferred destination country. The findings suggest that an effective provision of refugee protection requires both member states and refugees to contribute mutually to the public good.

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Europeans support a proportional allocation of asylum seekers

Cited by 72 publications

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Attitudes towards climate change migrants

Attitudes towards climate change migrants

Waking Up the Golden Dawn: Does Exposure to the Refugee Crisis Increase Support for Extreme-Right Parties?

Humanitarian Protection as a European Public Good: The Strategic Role of States and Refugees

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