Perceived threat and exclusionary attitudes towards foreign workers in Israel

Latinos Need to Stay in Their Place: Differential Segregation in a Multi-Ethnic Suburb

“…Most of the literature demonstrates that size matters, because whites become anxious and hostile when they perceive white demographics declining [59]: "a superordinate group (e.g., whites) becomes more racially hostile as the size of a proximate subordinate group increases, which putatively threatens the former's economic and social privilege" [60] (p. 568). Moreover, scholars have specifically addressed issues of language, culture and immigration status, arguing, "the perception of threat to cultural and national homogeneity may give rise, for example, to discriminatory attitudes and anti-immigrant sentiments" [61] (pp. 784-785).…”

National attachments, economic competition, and social exclusion of non-ethnic migrants in Israel: a mixed-methods approach

“…Quillian 1995;Semyonov et al 2002;Scheepers et al 2002;Raijman and Semyonov 2004). According to this approach, discriminatory attitudes and prejudice toward out-group populations can be a result of threats posed to either the individual or the group in the economic as well as in the social arena.…”

“…This is the case of I , who contended that: Thus the qualitative study provided an opportunity to identify two different levels of threat that should be taken into consideration when studying attitudes towards non-Jewish migrants in Israeli society: threat in the socio-economic arena and threat to the national homogeneity of the nation (see e.g. Raijman and Semyonov 2004). 18 In ethno-national countries like Israel, the threat to the national homogeneity of the nation exerts a strong influence in the way ordinary people consider criteria for membership and citizenship.…”

Migration, Ethnonationalist Destinations and Social Divisions: Non-Jewish Immigrants in Israel

“…For a large proportion of the population, the answer is easy: they have no place. Large proportions of Israelis (Arabs as well as Jews) hold negative/xenophobic attitudes towards migrant workers and oppose granting them rights (Raijman and Semyonov 2004). One might also conclude that the position of the government is that migrant workers do not belong in Israel, But the history of 'guestworkers' in Europe suggests that reality might not respect ideology, not even in Israel.…”