Extreme Negative Attitudes Towards Immigrants: An Analysis of Factors in Five Countries

Husfeldt, Vera

doi:10.1007/s11125-006-0011-6

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“…Several other authors (e.g. Husfeldt 2006;Rustenbach 2010) confirm that people with a higher level of social trust have more positive attitudes toward immigrants. However, it has also been shown that interpersonal trust is lower in more diverse communities (Alesina and La Ferrara 2000;Putnam 2007).…”

Section: Attitudes Toward Immigrants: Explanations and Operationalizamentioning

confidence: 86%

“…Following previous studies, we do not confine our study to political institutions such as parliament and political parties, but we also consider trust in non-political institutions such as police and the legal system (e.g. Husfeldt 2006;van Oorschot 2008;Rothstein and Stolle 2008;Freitag and Bühlmann 2009). …”

Section: Framework For Examining Institutional Trust and Attitudes Tomentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Espenshade and Hempstead (1996) ftirther found that social and political alienation do have an important impact on attitudes toward immigrants -people who are more dissatisfied with different aspects of their lives and who feel that politicians do not care about their needs have more negative attitudes toward immigrants than people who are more satisfied with their life. Husfeldt (2006) studied students' attitudes toward immigrants and sources of these based on an IEA Civic Education Study and found that tmst in institutions tends to prevent students from having negative attitudes toward immigrants. McLaren (2010) studied the relationship between the attitudes and tmst in institutions based on data from ESS.…”

Section: Wliy Does Trust In Institutions Matter In the Context Of Attmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…therefore, grown during the last decade as well (e.g. Espenshade and Hempstead 1996;Husfeldt 2006;O'Rourkc and Sinnott 2006;Masso 2009;McLaren 2010;Rustenbach 2010;Andreescu 2011). The focus of these studies is often on socioeconomic factors and contacts of natives with immigrants in difiFeient life domains.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Is institutional trust related to pro-immigrant attitudes? A pan-European evidence

Halapuu

Paas

Tammaru

et al. 2013

Eurasian Geography and Economics

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This paper examines the factors that are related to attitudes toward immigrants in Europe, with a particular focus on the role of institutional trust in shaping these attitudes. We go one step further compated to previous studies by investigating separately two different groups of people -members of the ethnic majority and ethnic minority populations in European countries. We use data from the European Social Survey fifth round database for 25 countries. The results of the paper show that trust in institutions is the variable that is most strongly associated with the attitudes toward immigrants itnplying on the importance of fair and supportive operation of political institutions to move toward more immigrant-tolerant environment and become an attractive destination country in the global competition of talents. The findings also indicate that not all of the main determinants of the attitudes toward immigrants drawn from the most common theoretical explanations seem to explain the variation of the attitudes toward immigrants among ethnic minority populations the same way as they explain it in the case of ethnic majority populations.

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Section: Attitudes Toward Immigrants: Explanations and Operationalizamentioning

confidence: 86%

Section: Framework For Examining Institutional Trust and Attitudes Tomentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Wliy Does Trust In Institutions Matter In the Context Of Attmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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“…Finally, while these scales can only give information on how students respond in relation to one another, further analysis can use cutoff points identified in the IRT models to identify and examine extreme subgroups of students (see Husfeldt, 2004). Such analysis is especially important in scales where certain item responses are only likely to occur among students with very high or very low scale scores, like participation in protest activities or negative attitudes towards ethnic minorities.…”

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Online only: Which Czech young adults prefer online civic participation?

Šerek¹,

Macháčková²

2014

Cyberpsychology

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This study examined whether people who prefer online over offline civic participation differ from those who participate in both environments, who prefer offline participation, or do not participate. Using a cross-sectional sample of young adults (age 18-28) recruited in the Czech Republic (N = 720), we compared these four groups (defined by their types of civic participation) regarding their socio-demographic profiles, trust (social, individual, and in the media), relationship to politics (political interest, exposure to politics in the media, and internal political efficacy), and political ideology (left-right orientation, concern with environmental issues, and support for immigrants’ rights). Results showed that people who prefer online participation adhere to conservative political ideologies than people with other types of participation. Their relationship to politics is as positive as in the case of people active in both environments. No substantial differences in trust and socio-demographics were found.

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Bedrohungsgefühle versus vertrauensbildende Kontakte – Religiöser Pluralismus, religiöses Sozialkapital und soziokulturelle Integration

Pickel¹

2012

Religiöser Pluralismus Im Fokus Quantitativer Religionsforschung

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Extreme Negative Attitudes Towards Immigrants: An Analysis of Factors in Five Countries

Cited by 16 publications

References 14 publications

Is institutional trust related to pro-immigrant attitudes? A pan-European evidence

Is institutional trust related to pro-immigrant attitudes? A pan-European evidence

Online only: Which Czech young adults prefer online civic participation?

Bedrohungsgefühle versus vertrauensbildende Kontakte – Religiöser Pluralismus, religiöses Sozialkapital und soziokulturelle Integration

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