Public Opinion on Immigration in Western Europe: Economics, Tolerance, and Exposure

Kehrberg, Jason E.

doi:10.1057/palgrave.cep.6110099

Cited by 70 publications

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“…Individuals with low socio-economic status or low skill levels may feel more competition from immigrants who are racially or ethnically different or nonEuropean, who generally tend to be low-skilled labourers (Jackson et al 2001;Kehrberg 2007;Coenders, Lubbers, and Scheepers 2008;Schneider 2008;Gorodzeisky and Semyonov 2009). Thus, we hypothesize an interaction effect between perceived material threat and economic well-being at the individual level, such that material threat boosts opposition to allowing immigrants with similar skills to enter the country, especially among those low in economic well-being and the unemployed (H 3 ).…”

Section: Hypotheses: the Effect Of Threat On Ethnic Preferences In Immentioning

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The effect of perceived cultural and material threats on ethnic preferences in immigration attitudes

Bloom¹,

Arıkan²,

Lahav³

2015

Ethnic and Racial Studies

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This paper shows that cultural and material threats exist side by side, serving different psychological functions, and that they manifest in differential attitudes towards immigrants from different ethnic or racial origins. While culturally threatened individuals prefer immigrants akin to themselves, as opposed to those from different races and cultures, the materially threatened prefer immigrants who are different from themselves who can be expected not to compete for the same resources. We test our hypotheses using multilevel structural equation modelling, based on data from twenty countries in the 2002 wave of the European Social Survey. The disaggregation of these two types of perceived threat reveals responsiveness to the race of immigrants that is otherwise masked by pooling the two threat dimensions.

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Section: Hypotheses: the Effect Of Threat On Ethnic Preferences In Immentioning

confidence: 98%

The effect of perceived cultural and material threats on ethnic preferences in immigration attitudes

Bloom¹,

Arıkan²,

Lahav³

2015

Ethnic and Racial Studies

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“…20 Second, the research on radical right parties and immigration attitudes provide mixed findings in regards to age. Scholarship on radical right parties indicates that younger individuals support these parties, whereas the research on immigration finds older individuals have more negative attitudes toward immigrants (Quillian, 1995;Scheepers et al, 2002;Kehrberg, 2007). Third, educated individuals are less likely to support radical right parties (Lubbers and Scheepers, 2000;Lubbers et al, 2002).…”

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confidence: 91%

The demand side of support for radical right parties

Kehrberg

2014

Comp Eur Polit

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This study examines the link between individual attitudes and voting for radical right parties in 16 European countries, using the European Social Survey (ESS). This study includes, in a single model, several different components of the radical right political platform in order to test which components are more strongly found among radical right voters. Using the initial assumption that the anti-immigrant message of radical right parties should be attractive to individuals with similar predispositions, I use the ESS to find evidence that radical right voters are attracted to these parties because of the political message of immigration attitudes and anti-democratic attitudes. Further, depending on the context, social conservatism is associated with radical right support. In sum, radical right support is based on multiple factors with immigration attitudes as the primary consideration, with populism and social conservatism playing a minor but significant role.

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“…), rejection of national lifestyle and national customs, music and language, as well as the threat of life prosperity, national identity, values, traditions, lifestyles, etc (Demidova & Paas, 2014;Kehrberg, 2007;McLaren, 2003;Quillian, 1995;Wilson, 1991;Zolberg, 1991).…”

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“…Many studies argue that attitudes toward migrants depend on the number of people arriving to the country or region (Chandler & Tsai, 2001;Demidova & Paas, 2014;Espenshade & Hempstead, 1996;Kehrberg, 2007;McLaren, 2003;Mayda, 2006;Nesterova & Suslova, 2014;O'Rourke & Sinnott, 2006;Paas & Halapuu, 2012).…”

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Migration as a Social Problem

Nesterova¹,

Суслова²,

Tsyiganov³

et al. 2015

ASS

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This article analyzes psychological problems of migrants and migration as a process. Using the method of the survey revealed some features of the attitude of Muscovites and residents of Moscow region towards migrants. The study which purpose was to identify the views of the indigenous population about the migratory situation in the city of Moscow and the Moscow region is described. The study involved 235 people aged 24 to 60 who were asked to answer 56 questions of socio-psychological questionnaire. Results of the study demonstrate the collective frustration and inner tension of the Muscovites and residents of the Moscow region, which shows the prevalence of intolerance among indigenous population to visitors from other countries, expressed in rejection of "foreigners".Negative attitude towards migrants reflects pendency of many social and economic problems of the inhabitants of the host country (region, city), the solution of which will help to reduce the migration phobia and formation of acceptance, respect and tolerance for each other among the indigenous population and migrants, that will allow them to live together within a single living space.

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Public Opinion on Immigration in Western Europe: Economics, Tolerance, and Exposure

Cited by 70 publications

References 21 publications

The effect of perceived cultural and material threats on ethnic preferences in immigration attitudes

The effect of perceived cultural and material threats on ethnic preferences in immigration attitudes

The demand side of support for radical right parties

Migration as a Social Problem

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