Not only Competitive Threat but also Racial Prejudice: Sources of Anti-Immigrant Attitudes in European Societies

Gorodzeisky, Anastasia; Semyonov, Moshe

doi:10.1093/ijpor/edv024

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“…This finding was confirmed for the European Union by Gorodzeisky and Semyonov (2015). Racial prejudice and the perception of competitive threat each predicted independently the attitudes towards migrants.…”

Section: Individual Differencessupporting

confidence: 53%

“…Modern racists contend that refugees and other minority groups would be privileged by the public administration. This construct was measured by three items adapted from Gorodzeisky and Semyonov (2015). Item 1: "When asylum seekers need the assistance of local authorities, will they be treated better / equally / worse as compared to natives?"…”

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confidence: 99%

“…In a crossnational survey Miller (2012) found a small but significant positive correlation between a country's per capita gross domestic product (GDP) and favorable attitudes towards migration. Gorodzeisky and Semyonov (2015) as well as McLaren (2003) indicated that higher rates of immigrants among a country's population are related to negative attitudes towards them, but no such effect was found in comparison of European countries by Sides and Citrin (2007). Schneider (2008) found a curvilinear relationship between the relative proportion of migrants in a country's population and attitudes towards them, i.e., the negative effect levels off at higher degrees of immigration, probably as a consequence of inter-group contact and habituation on the part of the autochthon population.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Concerns about perceived competitive or economic threat in the European Union were reported for example by Esses et al (2001), Gorodzeisky and Semyonov (2015), McLaren (2003), Sniderman, Hagendoorn, and Prior (2004), and by Yakushko (2008). Gorodzeisky and Semyonov (2015) found that poorly educated, unemployed, or economically disadvantaged respondents, as a consequence of perceived economic threat, expressed more negative attitudes towards immigrants than respondents with high socioeconomic and educational backgrounds. Esses et al (2001) introduced their "Instrumental Model of Group Conflict", postulating that groups competing for limited resources will tend to denigrate or even fight each other as a result of their economically motivated endeavors.…”

Section: Individual Differencesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Threat Perception and Modern Racism as Possible Predictors of Attitudes towards Asylum Seekers: Comparative Findings from Austria, Germany, and Slovakia

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Thomas²,

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Autochthon Europeans reacted inconsistently to rising numbers of asylum applications in 2015 and 2016. While some of them welcomed asylum seekers enthusiastically, others reacted with hostility. The objective of this study was to test a predictive model of these individual differences by Structural Equation Modeling (SEM). Both, in a German-speaking (N = 349 Austrians and Germans) and in a Slovak (N = 307) adult sample, the perception of "cultural threat" was a strong predictor of attitudes towards asylum seekers, whereas perceived "economic threat" and "modern racism" did not explain additional proportions of the variance.

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“…In this way, labor migration is viewed as a rational economic strategy to improve the economic well-being of household members in poor countries (Semyonov and Gorodzeisky, 2004;Gorodzeisky and Semyonov, 2015). Nevertheless, migrants and their families are often willing to shoulder these excessive costs in anticipation of large returns on their investment once they reach the destination country.…”

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The impact of government regulation on recruitment process, rights, wages and working conditions of labor migrants in the Israeli construction sector

Kushnirovich

Raijman

Barak-Bianco

2018

European Management Review

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To determine the impact of evolving forms of governance on migrant workers’ rights and employment conditions in Israel we first probe the extensive private recruitment industry that developed in Israel before the implementation of bilateral agreements, and examine migrant workers’ employment conditions and wages. Next we show the importance of bilateral agreements for the annulment of illicit practices in labor recruitment, as well as the practical consequences for migrants under the new arrangement. Specifically we scrutinize the impact of implementation of bilateral agreements in the construction sector on recruitment practices and fees, wage levels, and work conditions. Implementation of bilateral agreement were accompanied by dramatic decrease in the sums paid by migrant workers to reach the host country – but did not significantly improve workers’ rights, and their wages even declined. The mechanisms whereby a pool of precarious workers has emerged in the local labor market in Israel are highlighted.

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Competition and Ethnic/Racial Collective Action

Olzak¹

2022

The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social and Political Movements

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Competition theory of race and ethnic conflict specifies three mechanisms under which racial/ethnic conflict and protest occurs. The first reflects a familiar “racial threat” argument, suggesting that the magnitude of response by dominant groups depends on the timing and size of the incoming group and on the clarity of ethnic distinctions made between newcomers and residents. The second mechanism involves niche overlap, which activates efforts of competitive exclusion directed against less powerful groups. The third mechanism arises when the upward mobility of subordinate groups poses threats to the power and control by dominant groups. Together, these mechanisms imply that shifts in the balance of resources and/or power increase levels of competition. This in turn encourages mobilization efforts based upon newly activated race/ethnic boundaries.

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Not only Competitive Threat but also Racial Prejudice: Sources of Anti-Immigrant Attitudes in European Societies

Cited by 123 publications

References 34 publications

Threat Perception and Modern Racism as Possible Predictors of Attitudes towards Asylum Seekers: Comparative Findings from Austria, Germany, and Slovakia

Threat Perception and Modern Racism as Possible Predictors of Attitudes towards Asylum Seekers: Comparative Findings from Austria, Germany, and Slovakia

The impact of government regulation on recruitment process, rights, wages and working conditions of labor migrants in the Israeli construction sector

Competition and Ethnic/Racial Collective Action

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