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Economic and Cultural Drivers of Immigrant Support Worldwide.

Authors :
Valentino, Nicholas A.
Soroka, Stuart N.
Iyengar, Shanto
Aalberg, Toril
Duch, Raymond
Fraile, Marta
Hahn, Kyu S.
Hansen, Kasper M.
Harell, Allison
Helbling, Marc
Jackman, Simon D.
Kobayashi, Tetsuro
Source :
British Journal of Political Science; Oct2019, Vol. 49 Issue 4, p1201-1226, 26p
Publication Year :
2019

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. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Subjects

Subjects :
IMMIGRANTS
DEMOCRACY
SOCIAL status

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
00071234
Volume :
49
Issue :
4
Database :
Complementary Index
Journal :
British Journal of Political Science
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
138654752
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1017/S000712341700031X