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The impact of the financial crisis on European attitudes toward immigration
- Source :
- Comparative Migration Studies, Vol 7, Iss 1, Pp 1-20 (2019), Comparative Migration Studies
- Publication Year :
- 2019
- Publisher :
- SpringerOpen, 2019.
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Abstract
- This paper studies changes in attitudes toward immigration over a 10-year period, with an examination of the long-term effects of economic downturn.The focus is on changes before and after the financial crisis. I use data from the European Social Survey (2002–2014), combined with economic indicators at the country level. This intends to observe links between economic performance and attitudes with a comparative analysis of data from 25 European countries. Overall, European public appear to become less positive toward immigration during economic crisis, although there are notable variations among the countries. The results show more pessimistic attitudes toward the immigrations’ contribution to the economy, especially in countries where the crisis had the most severe economic impact. Overall, the findings suggest that a downward economic spiral correlates with more negative attitudes towards immigration. Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.
- Subjects :
- Sociology and Political Science
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Geography, Planning and Development
Immigration
Financial crisis
Pessimism
lcsh:Urban groups. The city. Urban sociology
lcsh:Social Sciences
Country level
Economic indicator
lcsh:HT51-1595
Political science
0502 economics and business
Development economics
050602 political science & public administration
lcsh:HT101-395
Economic impact analysis
Demography
media_common
05 social sciences
0506 political science
European Social Survey
lcsh:HT201-221
lcsh:H
Attitudes
lcsh:Communities. Classes. Races
Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty
Law
050203 business & management
lcsh:City population. Including children in cities, immigration
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- Volume :
- 7
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Comparative Migration Studies
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....325973e0bdc7516e12ab5773fc5a059c