2018
DOI: 10.3390/soc8030052
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Abstract: Abstract:In an increasingly globalized world, anti-immigrant sentiment has become more prevalent. Competitive threat theory suggests that anti-immigrant attitudes increase when adverse economic circumstances intensify competition with immigrants for scarce resources, but past studies using this approach are inconclusive. In this study, we investigate the impact of the Great Recession on perceived immigrant threat-an index of seven items measuring attitudes toward immigrants-using the 2013 International Social … Show more

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“…In another re-examination of competitive threat theory, Kwak and Wallace [100] investigate the impact of the Great Recession on perceived immigrant threat. Using data from the 2013 ISSP module on National Identity, they analyze individual-level data nested within 22 countries.…”
Section: Immigration and Diversitymentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In another re-examination of competitive threat theory, Kwak and Wallace [100] investigate the impact of the Great Recession on perceived immigrant threat. Using data from the 2013 ISSP module on National Identity, they analyze individual-level data nested within 22 countries.…”
Section: Immigration and Diversitymentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Competitive threat theory suggests that anti-immigrant attitudes increase when adverse economic circumstances intensify competition with immigrants for jobs, 1 placement in schools, social welfare benefits, health care spending 2 and other scarce resources. 3 Far-right political parties have capitalized on this anxiety by stoking prejudice and hate against immigrants, refugees, asylum seekers and other perceived ‘outsider’ groups. 4–6 In the 2014 EU Parliament Election, far-right political parties reached the European Parliament in countries, such as France, Denmark, Italy, Poland, Greece, Hungary, Finland, Sweden, Belgium and Germany ( https://www.enar-eu.org/National-and-European-elections-and-the-rise-of-far-right-parties ).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Contemporary arguments against immigration tend to focus on economic impacts rather than racialized ones (Hirschman, 2005), with economic downturns associated with increases in anti-immigrant sentiment (Goldstein & Peters, 2014; Kwak & Wallace, 2018). For example, the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 banned immigration of Chinese laborers because of the perceived competition for jobs; however, it is also the only law ever passed to prevent a specific racial/ethnic group from entering the country.…”
Section: Economic Exploitation and Disinvestmentmentioning
confidence: 99%