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Economic and Cultural Drivers of Immigrant Support Worldwide
- Source :
- Digital.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC, instname, Valentino, N A, Soroka, S N, Iyengar, S, Aalberg, T, Duch, R, Fraile, M, Hahn, K S, Hansen, K M, Harell, A, Helbling, M, Jackman, S D & Kobayashi, T 2019, ' Economic and Cultural Drivers of Immigrant Support Worldwide ', British Journal of Political Science, vol. 49, no. 4, pp. 1201-1226 . https://doi.org/10.1017/S000712341700031X, British Journal of Political Science
- Publication Year :
- 2019
- Publisher :
- Cambridge University Press, 2019.
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Abstract
- Employing a comparative experimental design drawing on over 18,000 interviews across eleven countries on four continents, this article revisits the discussion about the economic and cultural drivers of attitudes towards immigrants in advanced democracies. Experiments manipulate the occupational status, skin tone and national origin of immigrants in short vignettes. The results are most consistent with a Sociotropic Economic Threat thesis: In all countries, higher-skilled immigrants are preferred to their lower-skilled counterparts at all levels of native socio-economic status (SES). There is little support for the Labor Market Competition hypothesis, since respondents are not more opposed to immigrants in their own SES stratum. While skin tone itself has little effect in any country, immigrants from Muslim-majority countries do elicit significantly lower levels of support, and racial animus remains a powerful force.
- Subjects :
- Sociology and Political Science
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Occupational prestige
Immigration
Culture
Economic
Skin tone
Public opinion
Experimental
Political science
0502 economics and business
Development economics
050602 political science & public administration
050207 economics
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Market competition
business.industry
05 social sciences
0506 political science
business
Stratum
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- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Digital.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC, instname, Valentino, N A, Soroka, S N, Iyengar, S, Aalberg, T, Duch, R, Fraile, M, Hahn, K S, Hansen, K M, Harell, A, Helbling, M, Jackman, S D & Kobayashi, T 2019, ' Economic and Cultural Drivers of Immigrant Support Worldwide ', British Journal of Political Science, vol. 49, no. 4, pp. 1201-1226 . https://doi.org/10.1017/S000712341700031X, British Journal of Political Science
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....7df0c300ee37c1c6a341e8078dc58964