What determines the rejection of immigrants through an integrative model |
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Institution: | 1. Department of Sociology, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands;2. Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement NSCR, The Netherlands;3. Department of Sociology, Utrecht University, The Netherlands;1. Université de Bourgogne, France;2. Université de Paris 8, France;3. Concordia University College of Alberta, Canada;1. Department of Psychology, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556, USA;2. Department of Peace and Conflict Studies, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, NC 27412, USA;3. Department of Psychology, SUNY Geneseo, Geneseo, NY 14454 USA;4. Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, Luciceva 3, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia;1. Departments of Criminal Justice and Sociology, Indiana University-Bloomington, 302 Sycamore Hall, Bloomington, IN 47405, United States;2. Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice, University of Arkansas, 525 Old Main, Fayetteville, AR 72701, United States |
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Abstract: | This study tests different explanations of anti-immigrant attitudes through a model that incorporates aspects of group conflict, social identity and intergroup contact theories. Multigroup structural equation modelling was applied in three surveys, which tracked the same indicators in no similar economic and migratory contexts. In times of economic crisis, the perceived economic threat seems to lead more to discrimination and rejection of immigrants (in line with Group Conflict Theory), while sense of cultural threat is more likely to curb any desire for coexistence with them. Both threats show to be affected by the perceived size of the immigrant population, which increases the feeling of threat in those traditionally favourable to immigration. Other explanatory factors were also corroborated. Increasing contact with immigrants helps to lessen rejection, especially in the case of cultural threat. Effects due to insecurity were less marked and those relating to qualification were contrary to what was hypothesized. |
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Keywords: | Xenophobia Group conflict Intergroup contact Threat Multigroup structural equation modelling |
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