How context shapes acceptance of immigrants
The Link Between Affective Social Distance and Locational Distance
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2148169 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mikko Leino (0000-0002-8113-7732, University of Turku, corresponding author), Staffan Himmelroo (0000-0002-9527-3137, University of Helsinki) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 43 |
| Issue | 10 |
| Pages | 1890-1908 |
| Publication date | 2020-08-08 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Ethnic and Racial Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0141-9870 • E-ISSN: 1466-4356 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/01419870.2019.1665696 |
| OpenAlex | W2973631048 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 33 |
The presence of immigrants is an important contextual variable when explaining attitudes toward immigrants. We examine how the presence of immigrants is related to the affective social distance i.e. the sympathy the members of a group feel for another group. We make use of large data set (n = 2,977) on attitudes toward immigrants in 107 neighbourhoods within a single municipality (Turku, Finland). It allows us to analyze how attitudes toward immigrants vary across different neighbourhoods and how the neighbourhood context shapes the affective social distance to immigrants. Our findings suggest that, although social distance varies between neighbourhoods with a large share of immigrants and those with fewer immigrants, these relationships disappear when individual level characteristics and other contextual variables are considered. Nevertheless, there are some noteworthy differences between how the individual level characteristics unfold in neighbourhoods with a large share of immigrants compared with how they unfold in other neighbourhoods
Context (archaeology · Demographic economics · Economics · Geography · Immigration · Neighbourhood (mathematics · Social distance · Sociology · Sympathy · Electoral Systems and Political Participation · Mathematics · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Psychology · Social and Intergroup Psychology · Social Psychology
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| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,33 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2023 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |