Ziller, Conrad ORCID: 0000-0002-2282-636X
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EstablishedandExcluded? Immigrants' Economic Progress, Attitudes toward Immigrants, and the Conditioning Role of Egalitarianism and Intergroup Contact.
Polit. Stud..
LONDON:
SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD.
ISSN 1467-9248
Abstract
Immigrants' economic progress, on the one hand, serves as an indicator of successful integration and should serve to mitigate natives' concerns about potential economic or welfare state-related burdens of immigration. On the other hand, the fact of immigrants improving their social status may also induce perceptions of competition and group-related relative deprivation. This study examines whether immigrants' progress leads either to improved attitudes toward immigrants or to a greater perception of immigration-related threat. Specifically, I focus on how individuals' egalitarian values and experiences in intergroup contact condition their responses to immigrants' economic progress. Using data from the European Social Survey 2014, combined with country-level change scores in income gaps between natives and immigrants, I find that respondents who encountered negative experiences in intergroup contact respond to immigrants' progress with increasing anti-immigrant sentiment. A survey experiment manipulating exposure to information about group-specific income trends mirrors this finding. The results have important implications for debates about immigrants' integration and the economic motives underlying immigration-related attitudes.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-318447 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.1177/0032321720953561 | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Polit. Stud. | ||||||||
Publisher: | SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD | ||||||||
Place of Publication: | LONDON | ||||||||
ISSN: | 1467-9248 | ||||||||
Language: | English | ||||||||
Faculty: | Unspecified | ||||||||
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URI: | http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/31844 |
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