Does the welfare entitlement of refugees reduce openness to refugee migration? A survey experiment on the welfare entitlement of Ukrainian refugees in the United Kingdom
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3621990 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Alexandre Afonso (0000-0002-3545-5035), Samir Mustafa Negash, Samir Negash (0000-0002-8773-057X), Eli A Wolff (0000-0002-2435-5792), Emily Anne Wolff |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 50 |
| Issue | 14 |
| Pages | 3415-3434 |
| Publication date | 2024-08-26 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | New Community (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0047-9586 • E-ISSN: 1469-9451 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/1369183x.2024.2311646 |
| OpenAlex | W4391563992 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 29 |
This article uses an original survey experiment to assess whether the social and employment rights available to refugees affects the openness of citizens in receiving countries to greater refugee flows. Some authors have argued that more extensive rights for immigrants make citizens more reluctant towards immigration flows. We test this argument in the context of the reception of Ukrainian refugees in the United Kingdom. Our results show that exposing individuals to information on the welfare entitlements of refugees does have a small negative effect (about −0.53 on average on a 0-10 scale) on their openness to greater refugee flows. Meanwhile, exposing individuals to information on the ability of refugees to work and possibly contribute to the economy has no discernible positive effect on openness to refugee flows. The impact of the treatments is strongly conditioned by pre-existing views on immigration: the negative effect of information on welfare entitlement is more than three times larger among respondents who held already negative views of immigration
Context (archaeology · Demographic economics · Economics · Entitlement (fair division · Geography · Immigration · Openness to experience · Political science · Refugee · Ukrainian · Welfare · Law · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Health and Trauma · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Psychology · Social Psychology
Three Worlds of Relief
Population-Based Survey Experiments
Immigration and Redistribution
Threatened by diversity
The long-term impact of employment bans on the economic integration of refugees
Loss Aversion in Riskless Choice
Welfare States and Immigrant Rights
Capitalism, Alone
Universal Credit
Generous to all or ‘insiders only’? The relationship between welfare state generosity and immigrant welfare rights
Immigration and redistribution revisited
Making the difference in social Europe
Public Attitudes towards Refugees in Germany
Numbers vs. Rights
Why do citizens want to keep refugees out? Threats, fairness and hostile norms in the treatment of asylum seekers
Explaining Attitudes Toward Refugees and Immigrants in Europe
Educated Preferences
Numbers, Selectivity, and Rights
Public Attitudes Toward Immigration
Negativity Bias
Comparative political economy and international migration
Citizenship as a gift
Immigration and Welfare Support in Germany
Does Immigration Undermine Public Support for Social Policy
The ethics of refugees
Acceptable and Unacceptable Immigrants
Immigration or Welfare? The Progressive's Dilemma Revisited
| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 3 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2026 (2) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |