Factors influencing society’s attitudes towards internal and external EU immigrants
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19370600 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mindaugas Butkus (0000-0003-2381-5440), Alma Mačiulytė-Šniukienė (0000-0001-6661-7407), Vida Davidavićiene (0000-0002-0931-0967), Kristina Matuzevičiūtė (0000-0003-0573-0072) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 27 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Publication date | 2017-01-05 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Filosofija. Sociologija (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0235-7186 • E-ISSN: 2424-4546 |
| Publisher | Lithuanian Academy of Sciences (PUBLISHER • LT) |
| DOI | 10.6001/fil-soc.2016.27.4.2 |
| OpenAlex | W3197057654 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 6 |
In open economy migration is a natural process. However, constantly growing immigration flows to the EU countries pose certain challenges for host countries. In 2015, over 1 million people – asylum seekers, refugees and other immigrants – crossed the border of the EU. In addition, there is a significant movement from less developed to more developed countries within the EU. This process causes citizens’ discontent of some host countries, as well as the fear of economic, social, political and security instability. In order to achieve integration of immigrants and seeking to formulate a successful migration policy it is appropriate to determine factors influencing society’s attitudes towards immigrants. During the last decade this topic is relevant in the political and scientific field; however, there is a lack of systematic research carried out integrating not only economic but also demographic, cultural, political and religious factors influencing society’s attitudes. In this research we employed a logistic regression model to estimate factors that increase or decrease the probability for a positive attitude towards internal and external immigrants in the EU. As a source for raw data we used the European Social Survey Database. The research results revealed that society’s attitude towards internal EU immigrants was more positive compared with that towards external immigrants. Factors increasing the probability for EU citizens to possess a positive attitude towards immigrants are higher education level and sufficient income. The influence of these factors does not differ much regarding internal and external immigrants. We estimated that women, families with children, people that live in cities and young generation are the members of society that have the most positive attitude
Demographic economics · Economics · Immigration · Political science · Sociology · Law · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Health and Trauma · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Psychology
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| Citations per year | 0.57 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2019 - 2025 (7) |
| Highly cited | No |