Structural Effects and Individual Attitudes: Racial Prejudice in English Cities

Elkin, Stephen L.; Panning, William H.

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“…Studlar (1977), on the other hand, found`the in¯uence of social context variables on attitudes towards immigrants' to be`almost nonexistent'. Elkin and Panning (1975) investigate association between contact and prejudice, concluding that`contact with the external referent of an opinion decreases the in¯uence of neighborhood climate on that opinion'. All these studies use British data for the 1960s and early 1970s.…”

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Attitudes to Ethnic Minorities, Ethnic Context and Location Decisions

Dustmann

Preston

2001

The Economic Journal

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Attitudes of ethnic majority populations towards other communities is a potentially important determinant of social exclusion and welfare of ethnic minorities. The suggestion that negative attitudes towards minorities may be affected by the ethnic composition of the locality in which individuals live has often been made and empirically investigated. We point to a potential for bias in simple estimates of ethnic context effects if individual location decisions are driven partly by attitudinal factors. We also suggest an instrumental variables procedure for overcoming such bias in data with appropriate spatial information. Our results suggest that such a correction may be important.

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Attitudes to Ethnic Minorities, Ethnic Context and Location Decisions

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Preston

2001

The Economic Journal

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“…Studies that try to identify contextual sources of anti-foreigner sentiments in the United Kingdom have focused primarily on ethnic prejudice driven by local concentrations of ethnic minorities. Elkin and Panning (1975) find that prejudice towards immigrants from Southeast Asia and the Caribbean is highest among native respondents with no previous contact with immigrants despite being aware of their presence in the neighbourhood. Schaefer (1975) however finds that prejudice is higher in towns where residents have greater personal experience with immigrants.…”

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“…Empirical literature on natives’ anti-immigration attitudes in the United Kingdom dates back to the 1970s (Schaefer, 1973; Elkin and Panning, 1975; Schaefer, 1975; Studlar, 1977, 1978). Studlar (1978) argues that the ‘coloured’ immigration issue of the General Election in 1970 gave a distinct advantage to the Conservatives, who were seen by voters as more likely to keep immigrants out.…”

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Public Support for Immigration Restriction in the United Kingdom: Resource Scarcity, Ethnicity or Poor Origins?

Markaki

2014

Natl. Inst. econ. rev.

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Research on anti-immigrant attitudes in the United Kingdom in the past has focused primarily on feelings of prejudice driven by local concentrations of ethnic minorities. The immigration debate, however, has arguably changed since the EU expansions and the economic crisis of the past decade. This paper tests whether public support for immigration restriction is empirically driven by factors such as resource scarcity and economic stagnation, skill supply of native and immigrant workers, and the origin of immigrants from poorer countries within and outside the EU. Survey data from the European Social Survey between 2002 and 2010 are matched with regional level indicators calculated using the UK Labour Force Surveys. Findings suggest that support for immigration restriction is higher in regions where more immigrants are unemployed, but lower in regions where more natives are unemployed for longer than a year. Both the origin and ethnicity of the immigrant population appear to play a role in immigration policy preferences among native respondents.

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“…Schaefer (1973bSchaefer ( , 1974Schaefer ( , 1975 in a number of related pieces of research argued consistently that the local social context was one of the key determinants of spatial variations in prejudice at both a regional and inter-urban level. His findings also received support from work by Elkin and Panning (1975), who demonstrated how the climate of opinion within a neighbourhood was influential in shaping the attitudes of its residents to the issue of 'race'. An alternative view has been forcefully argued by Studlar (1977).…”

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Race and Racism

Jackson¹

2000

Research Training for Social Scientists

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In September 1985 the Social Geography Study Group of the Institute of British Geographers held a three-day conference at Coventry (Lanchester) Polytechnic on the subject of 'Race and Racism'. It was a lively and stimulating meeting with geographers joining a range of other social scientists in vigorous but unacrimonious debate. The conference itself has been reported elsewhere (Immigrants and Minorities 4 (3), November 1985, pp. 85-9).The present volume is a selection of essays derived from some of the papers that were given at the conference, together with one newly commissioned paper (by Susan Smith) and an introductory essay (by myself). Each of the papers has been revised in the light of issues raised at the conference and in response to editorial comments on successive drafts. The introduction attempts to place the essays in the disciplinary context of social geography and in terms of the wider social-science literature on 'race' and racism. The essays are then divided into a number of parts, each of which begins with a short introductory section, highlighting salient points and drawing out general themes.Editorial work on this volume has been made much less onerous by the generous cooperation of numerous people to whom I would like to extend my thanks. Hugh Matthews gave invaluable local support in organizing the original conference. All of the contributors kept remarkably well to schedule in preparing their manuscripts for publication, responding positively and with good humour to my various requests and suggestions. Most of the maps were redrawn for publication by Lauren McClue in the Drawing Office at UCL. And finally, the following people deserve my special thanks for taking the time to comment helpfully on an earlier draft of the introduction:

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Structural Effects and Individual Attitudes: Racial Prejudice in English Cities

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