What Determines Attitudes Toward the Consequences of the Reception of Refugees in Germany? Results from the GESIS Panel 2016

Reinhardt, Peter; Frings, Cornelia

doi:10.1007/s11615-020-00254-2

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“…Regarding attitudes toward refugees in Europe, there exists a substantial body of research based on large survey data reflecting the situation before the war against Ukraine (for selected recent contributions, see Czymara, 2020;Gerhards & Dilger, 2020;Reinhardt & Frings, 2020;Benoit, 2021;Abdelaaty & Steele, 2022;Polak & Schuster, 2023). For contextualizing our study, we highlight some recent contributions that include findings about the attitudes toward refugees from Ukraine.…”

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Attitudes toward refugees between group-focused enmity and other-oriented responsiveness. Evidence from nationally representative German samples 2015/2016 and 2022

Streib,

Chen

2023

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To what extent do people differ in their attitudes toward incoming people who seek refuge from war and toward those who they assume are coming because of the better living conditions? How could this attitudinal difference be explained? This article presents spotlights on the attitudes toward refugees in Germany based on national representative surveys in two periods, when the German borders were crossed (a) by high numbers of people fleeing the war in Syria in 2015 and early 2016 (n = 1262), and (b) when most refugees came from Ukraine in 2022 (n = 1339). Results based on a repeated cross-sectional design indicate that, during both periods of peak war-related refugee immigration, there was high agreement to accepting war refugees into Germany, which even increased between 2016 (81.1%) and 2022 (89.8%), while, in contrast, the majority (2016: 70.0%; 2022: 60.8%) resisted the acceptance of refugees who supposedly seek only better living conditions. Further, using a newly designed model, we demonstrate that the Group-focused Enmity syndrome is negatively associated with the agreement to accept war refugees into Germany (β = -.31), but much more negatively with accepting supposedly ‘economic’ refugees (β = -.49), while the component of Other-oriented Responsiveness is positively associated with accepting war refugees (β = .23).

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