How the macroeconomic context impacts on attitudes to immigration: Evidence from within-country variation

Ruist, Joakim

doi:10.1016/j.ssresearch.2016.04.018

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“…Therefore, while the connection between these dominant issues and immigration remains unclear to the public, immigration will be evaluated in terms of those dominant issues that invoke social or economic anxiety. This is consistent with findings from several studies which show that while changes over time in the rate of immigration do not affect attitudes toward immigration, year to year changes in other macro-level conditions, often unrelated to immigration, such as the unemployment rate or GDP growth, do influence attitudes toward immigration [12], [13].…”

Section: Sociopsychological Determinants Of Attitudes Toward Immigrationsupporting

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Public attitudes toward immigration—Determinants and unknowns

Javdani¹

2020

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Section: Sociopsychological Determinants Of Attitudes Toward Immigrationsupporting

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Public attitudes toward immigration—Determinants and unknowns

Javdani¹

2020

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“…Whether individuals hold more positive or more negative attitudes towards immigrants depends on a high range of factors, including individual characteristics of both immigrants and natives (Ceobanu and Escandell 2010) and contextual/macro characteristics, such as those measured at the regional (Markaki and Longhi 2013) and country levels (Callens and Meuleman 2017;Ruist 2016). A particularity of these studies, and of many social science studies in general, is that conditionality is often a secondary aspect of the analyses.…”

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The complex relationship between immigrants’ concentration, socioeconomic environment and attitudes towards immigrants in Europe

Hoxhaj

Zuccotti

2020

Ethnic and Racial Studies

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Research has shown that positive attitudes towards immigration are often associated with a higher presence of immigrants at the local level; however, this relationship might not apply everywhere. While a higher presence of immigrants might be positive for attitudes in areas with better socioeconomic resourcesvia the development of more cooperative intergroup contactsit might bring no or even a negative effect on attitudes in poorer areasdue to an enhanced competition for (scarce) resources and poorer social cohesion. This article combines data from the European Social Survey with NUTS3 aggregated data of twelve European countries to study this relationship. We find that a higher concentration of immigrants is associated with more positive attitudes towards them; in line with our expectations, this effect decreases as the socioeconomic conditions of areas worsen. In the most deprived areas, however, a higher concentration of immigrants does not have an effect on attitudes.

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“…Many studies have investigated the relationship between economic decline and anti-immigrant sentiment, but their empirical findings are mixed. Some studies provide evidence that economic decline increases anti-immigrant sentiment [12,13], whereas others find no significant relationship [14][15][16][17][18][19]. A few studies have focused more specifically on the connection between the Great Recession and anti-immigrant attitudes, but their findings have also been mixed [4,20].…”

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“…The research has tested competitive threat theory using either unemployment rates or changes in GDP, but their results have not provided a clear-cut picture of country-level economic factors that affect public attitudes toward immigrants. Some research shows that countries with higher unemployment rates or lower GDPs have more pronounced anti-immigrant sentiments [4,12,13], but other studies regarding the effects of the economic conditions on anti-immigrant attitudes are inconclusive [14][15][16][17][18][19][20]. Some of these studies find that one or both of the measures of economic conditions have no relationship with attitudes toward immigrants, despite being consistently in the expected direction.…”

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The Impact of the Great Recession on Perceived Immigrant Threat: A Cross-National Study of 22 Countries

Kwak

Wallace

2018

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Abstract:In an increasingly globalized world, anti-immigrant sentiment has become more prevalent. Competitive threat theory suggests that anti-immigrant attitudes increase when adverse economic circumstances intensify competition with immigrants for scarce resources, but past studies using this approach are inconclusive. In this study, we investigate the impact of the Great Recession on perceived immigrant threat-an index of seven items measuring attitudes toward immigrants-using the 2013 International Social Survey Program survey. Using multilevel models, we analyze responses from 18,433 respondents nested within 22 countries. We create a country-level measure of the Great Recession Index comprised of four dimensions-the housing crash, the financial crisis, economic decline, and employment loss-and assess its impact on perceived immigrant threat. After controlling for a variety of individual-level and country-level covariates, we find that the Great Recession is positively associated with perceived immigrant threat. We also identify important interaction effects between the Great Recession Index and change in government expenditures, age, educational levels, citizenship, and urbanization. The study contributes to competitive threat theory by showing the effect of the Great Recession in exacerbating anti-immigrant sentiment.

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How the macroeconomic context impacts on attitudes to immigration: Evidence from within-country variation

Cited by 15 publications

References 10 publications

Public attitudes toward immigration—Determinants and unknowns

Public attitudes toward immigration—Determinants and unknowns

The complex relationship between immigrants’ concentration, socioeconomic environment and attitudes towards immigrants in Europe

The Impact of the Great Recession on Perceived Immigrant Threat: A Cross-National Study of 22 Countries

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