Climate, Conflict, and Context

Reevaluating Americans’ Support for Refugees

Datos Bibliográficos

ID12379811
AutoresN Lajevardi (0000-0001-7201-4354, Michigan State University, autor de correspondencia), Tarah Williams (0000-0003-3304-0343, Allegheny College), E Stewart (0000-0002-3955-7549, University of Massachusetts Boston), Roy Whitaker (0009-0002-3964-3612, San Diego State University)
Año2024
Volumen57
Número4
Páginas479-486
Fecha de publicación2024-10-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaPS Political Science & Politics (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1049-0965 • E-ISSN: 1537-5935
EditorialCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s1049096524000398
OpenAlexW4404193357
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas1
Referencias citadas25

As more people are displaced by climate change, public acceptance of migrants is an increasingly relevant geographical and political issue. How willing are Americans to accept climate migrants and how does this support compare to others who are fleeing conflict? We conducted a nationally representative survey experiment (N=1,027) with prompts that varied the context of refugee resettlement, including a control condition without context, those displaced by global warming, refugees from Ukraine, and refugees from Afghanistan. Respondents expressed marginally lower willingness to admit climate migrants and significantly higher willingness to admit Ukrainian refugees. These differences were amplified by partisanship, religion, and race. These results suggest that some migrants experience a more welcoming public than others and highlight a challenge for those who are made vulnerable by climate change

Context (archaeology · Development economics · Economics · Geography · Political science · Refugee · Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration · Law · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Refugees, and Integration