National Trauma and the Fear of Foreigners: How Past Geopolitical Threat Heightens Anti-Immigration Sentiment Today

Hiers, Wesley; Soehl, Thomas; Wimmer, Andreas

doi:10.1093/sf/sox045

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“…To further examine whether the relative change in the structural macro variables over time (unemployment rate, number of applications for asylum) has an influence on the individual attitude toward the return of refugees (see Hiers et al 2017;Kehrberg 2007), we repeated the same analysis including the change in unemployment rate between 2008 and 2015 and the changes in the number of applications for asylum between 2011 and 2015 (results are available on request). The results do not differ from the results presented here.…”

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European Citizens’ Attitudes on the Return of Refugees to Their Home Country: Results from a Survey in 13 EU Member States

Gerhards

Dilger

2020

Polit Vierteljahresschr

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European law requires member states of the European Union (EU) to accept refugees. It also allows them to return refugees to their countries of origin if the reason for asylum no longer exists. Both the reception and return of refugees has become a widely debated and controversial issue in many member states of the EU. Based on a survey conducted in 13 EU member states, we analysed whether citizens support the return of refugees when the cause for their displacement has become obsolete and how differences in attitudes toward the return of refugees can be explained. A clear majority of Europeans (70%) support the return of refugees. This is also the case for those who believe that their country should accept refugees in the first place. These results mean that existing law-the acceptance of refugees in need and the return when the cause becomes obsolete-is being supported by a majority of Europeans. However, there are considerable differences in approval rates among the countries. The results of multivariate analysis show that ideational factors-both on the micro and the macro level-influence attitudes toward the return of refugees, whereas structural factors, recurring to economic interest, do not contribute substantially to the explanation of attitudes toward the return. The political implications of these findings are discussed in the last section of the article.

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European Citizens’ Attitudes on the Return of Refugees to Their Home Country: Results from a Survey in 13 EU Member States

Gerhards

Dilger

2020

Polit Vierteljahresschr

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“…Studying the politicization of immigration in Spain, Morales et al (2015) highlight that such an extension of inclusiveness is possible, in their case during a period of economic hardship. Hiers et al (2017) highlight that countries with ethnic (rather than civic) forms of nationalism tend to come with stronger antiimmigrant sentiments. With its multiracial population, the South African nation-building project is civic in nature.…”

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South African Parties Hardly Politicise Immigration in Their Electoral Manifestos

Ruedin

2019

Politikon

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To what extent do political parties in South Africa politicise immigration? We systematically analyse the party manifestos of all major parties in post-apartheid South Africa, using two separate approaches of content analysis: coding all sentences about immigration individually, and coding the electoral manifesto overall using a 'checklist'. Although we can expect high politicisation of immigrants in new democracies, most party manifestos do not treat immigration at all. If parties in South Africa treat immigration in their manifestos, they tend to take relatively inclusive positions, focus on immigrant integration rather than immigration control, and use instrumental frames. It appears that the nation-building project of a post-apartheid South Africa has not led to an increased politicisation of immigration by political parties qua parties, although individual politicians certainly play a role.

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“…States also want to show concerned citizens that they are still in control, despite their loss of influence due to globalisation, which explains highly ritualised acts of enforcement (Wacquant 1999;Leerkes and Broeders 2010). The degree to which immigration is seen as a threat varies between countries (Hiers, Soehl, and Wimmer 2017).…”

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Beyond the deportation regime: differential state interests and capacities in dealing with (non-) deportability in Europe

Leerkes

Houte

2020

Citizenship Studies

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There is considerable variation in how countries deal with the presence of migrants lacking a legal right to stay. We present an analysis of the post-arrival migration enforcement regimes of European countries using a two-phased mixed-methods approach. The article (1) provides the currently best possible statistical overview of forced and assisted return in 12 European countries among rejected asylum seekers from six source countries, and (2) explores policy practices in six Western European and Scandinavian countries regarding deportability and effective non-deportability. While most rejected asylum seekers examined do not demonstrably return, we see highly divergent return patterns between host countries, and significant policy differences. The article thus shows the importance of better examining variation in post-arrival enforcement policies and their underlying interests and capacities. There is not one unified 'deportation regime'; there are at least four ideal-typical 'post-arrival enforcement regimes': thin, thick, targeted, and hampered. ARTICLE HISTORY

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National Trauma and the Fear of Foreigners: How Past Geopolitical Threat Heightens Anti-Immigration Sentiment Today

Cited by 56 publications

References 32 publications

European Citizens’ Attitudes on the Return of Refugees to Their Home Country: Results from a Survey in 13 EU Member States

European Citizens’ Attitudes on the Return of Refugees to Their Home Country: Results from a Survey in 13 EU Member States

South African Parties Hardly Politicise Immigration in Their Electoral Manifestos

Beyond the deportation regime: differential state interests and capacities in dealing with (non-) deportability in Europe

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