Reexamining Racial Attitudes: The Conditional Relationship between Diversity and Socioeconomic Environment

Branton, Regina; Jones, Bradford S.

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“…Higher concentrations of minority groups in prosperous areas, high status of natives and less segregated neighbourhoods lead to more positive relations (Branton and Jones 2005) while high concentrations of minorities in troubled and poor areas foster feelings of threat and increase conflict Vezzali et al 2010;Vezzali and Giovannini 2011). These conditioning effects seem to hold for analyses at different geographical levels.…”

Section: Empirical Findings: the Local Contextmentioning

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What determines attitudes to immigration in European countries? An analysis at the regional level

2013

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Different disciplines within the social sciences have produced large theoretical and empirical literatures to explain the determinants of anti-immigration attitudes. We bring together these literatures in a unified framework and identify testable hypothesis on what characteristics of the individual and of the local environment are likely to have an impact on anti-immigration attitudes. While most of the previous literature focuses on the explanation of attitudes at the individual level, we focus on the impact on regional characteristics (the local context). Our aim is to explain why people living in different regions differ in terms of their attitudes towards immigration. We isolate the impact of regions from regressions using individual-level data and explain this residual regional heterogeneity in attitudes with aggregate level indicators of regional characteristics. We find that regions with a higher percentage of immigrants born outside the EU and a higher unemployment rate among the immigrant population show a higher probability that natives express negative attitudes to immigration. Regions with a higher unemployment rate among natives however, show less pronounced anti-immigrant attitudes.JEL Classification: F22; J15; J61; R19

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Section: Empirical Findings: the Local Contextmentioning

confidence: 89%

What determines attitudes to immigration in European countries? An analysis at the regional level

2013

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“…Indeed, besides individual differences in social-ideological attitudes, a variety of social-environmental and 6 situational factors may lead people to experience greater threat (e.g., Branton and Jones 2005;Dustmann and Preston 2007;Stephan and Renfro 2002), which in turn may propagate prejudice towards out-groups (e.g., Oliver and Mendelberg 2000).…”

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Diversity and Out-Group Attitudes in the Netherlands: The Role of Authoritarianism and Social Threat in the Neighbourhood

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Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

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“…Since the work of Allport and Key, numerous studies (many summarized in Table 1) have been undertaken at various geographic scales, examining a series of dependent variables including attitudes to racial minorities, Kitschelt, 1996;Mayer, 1995;Robinson, 1980;Sigelman & Welch, 1993;Surace & Seeman, 1967;Yancey, 1999 Biggs & Knauss, 2012;Bowyer, 2008;Ford & Goodwin, 2010;Harris, 2012 + French departements Kitschelt, 1995; Mayer, 1995 + U.S. counties Blalock, 1957;Branton & Jones, 2005;Eitle et al, 2002;Giles & Evans, 1986;Glaser, 1994;Hopkins, 2011;Key, 1949;Reed, 1972;Rocha et al, 2011;Stein, Post, & Rinden, 2000;Wright, 1976+ Hood & Morris, 1997, 2000Morris, 2000− Corzine et al, 1983Dixon, 2006;Newman & Johnson, 2012 +/− Campbell, Wong, & Citrin, 2006= Louisiana Parishes Giles & Buckner, 1993Giles & Hertz, 1994;Voss, 1996 + Metropolitan areas Arp et al, 1999;Dixon, 2006;Fossett & Kiecolt, 1989;Jacobs & Carmichael, 2001, 2002Rocha & Espino, 2009;Taylor, 1998+ Ha, 2010+...…”

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“White Flight” or Positive Contact? Local Diversity and Attitudes to Immigration in Britain

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Harris

2015

Comparative Political Studies

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Does the local presence of immigrant groups increase White hostility to immigration? Most research finds that diverse neighborhoods reduce White opposition to minorities and immigration. However, most studies at higher geographies find the reverse effect. We confirm this pattern for England and Wales for studies are open to selection bias, which is where this article makes its main contribution. Is White tolerance in diverse neighborhoods the result of a positive effect of inter-ethnic contact, or does it arise from White flight, with anti-immigrant Whites exiting diverse areas but remaining within wider geographies as radicalized opponents of immigration? We provide the first attempt we are aware of to track the opinions of in-and out-migrants, as well as stayers, from local areas over an extended period. We use 20 years of large-scale geocoded British longitudinal data and find only limited evidence of selection effects associated with White flight.

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Reexamining Racial Attitudes: The Conditional Relationship between Diversity and Socioeconomic Environment

Cited by 140 publications

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What determines attitudes to immigration in European countries? An analysis at the regional level

What determines attitudes to immigration in European countries? An analysis at the regional level

Diversity and Out-Group Attitudes in the Netherlands: The Role of Authoritarianism and Social Threat in the Neighbourhood

“White Flight” or Positive Contact? Local Diversity and Attitudes to Immigration in Britain

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