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Becker, Charlotte Clara (2019). The Influence of a Migration Background on Attitudes Towards Immigration. Soc. Incl., 7 (4). S. 279 - 293. LISBON: COGITATIO PRESS. ISSN 2183-2803

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Abstract

Migration is an ever-increasing phenomenon that is unfailingly the topic of public discourse. Recently, empirical interest has expanded to include the study of attitudes towards immigration. However, the focus usually lies on the opinion of natives, that is, persons without a migration background. This is unfortunate, because in many countries the proportion of people with a migration background is quite high, and many of them hold the citizenship of the receiving country. I expect individuals with a migration background to have more favourable attitudes towards immigration than the general population because they can identify more strongly with other immigrants due to their own migration history. Furthermore, I expect this difference to decrease with each subsequent migrant generation, with earlier generations holding more positive attitudes than later generations. For the analyses, I pooled data from the 2008-2016 rounds of the American General Social Survey. The subsample used included 7,362 respondents, 2,811 of whom had a migration background. Moreover, the data set allowed the differentiation of three generations of migrants. The results support the theoretical expectations. Persons with a migration background had more favourable attitudes towards immigration compared to those without a migration background. However, a closer look revealed that this is the case only for first-generation immigrants. The attitudes of second- and third-generation immigrants differed from each other on the 5% level, but the attitudes of neither group differed from that of the general population when the migrants' regional origins were controlled for.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Becker, Charlotte Clara UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-159802
DOI:	10.17645/si.v7i4.2317
Journal or Publication Title:	Soc. Incl.
Volume:	7
Number:	4
Page Range:	S. 279 - 293
Date:	2019
Publisher:	COGITATIO PRESS
Place of Publication:	LISBON
ISSN:	2183-2803
Language:	English
Faculty:	Unspecified
Divisions:	Unspecified
Subjects:	no entry
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language SOCIAL DISTANCE; RESIDENTIAL SEGREGATION; ETHNIC-IDENTITY; CONTACT; 3RD-GENERATION; AMERICAN; MIGRANTS; NATIVES; EUROPE; THREAT Multiple languages Social Issues; Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary Multiple languages
Refereed:	Yes
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/15980