Who are the immigrants that Israeli Jews prefer? The interplay between reasons for migration, religion, and religiosity
Rebeca Raijman,
Anastasia Gorodzeisky,
Moshe Semyonov
et al.
Abstract:This study focuses on the impact of three attributes of migrants – their reasons for migration, religion, and level of religiosity – on public support for allowing migrants to come and live in Israel. We rely on a factorial survey that was conducted in a representative sample of the Israeli Jewish population analyzing the assessments of 600 respondents of various vignettes (N = 3,595) of hypothetical migrants about admitting them to the country. The findings reveal that Israeli Jews do not evaluate all immigra… Show more
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