The 'intergroup paradox' in Andalusia (Spain)
An Explanatory Model
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3665799 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sebastian Rinken (0000-0002-7951-8501, Instituto de Estudios Sociales Avanzados, corresponding author), Manuel Trujillo-Carmona (0000-0002-0846-2344, Instituto de Estudios Sociales Avanzados) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 44 |
| Issue | 14 |
| Pages | 2392-2414 |
| Publication date | 2018-10-26 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| 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.2017.1346041 |
| OpenAlex | W2753707838 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
| References cited | 28 |
The widely renowned theory of group-threat predicts anti-immigrant backlash when immigration societies experience economic downturns. However, despite skyrocketing unemployment and widespread misgivings about immigration’s impact, no discernible wave of anti-immigrant sentiment has emerged in Spain; the ensuing puzzle accentuates in the southernmost region of Andalusia, where jobless rates surged beyond 35%. This study examines why anti-immigrant animosity remained stable at low levels, even receded, amidst such inauspicious conditions. Our explanatory model expects increasingly adverse pressures of perceived group-threat on natives’ sentiment toward immigrants to be compensated by increasingly benign impact of various benevolent predispositions and situational perceptions. To test these assumptions, we compute a repeated logistic regression model, discern coefficient from sample effects and examine time-trends among vulnerable populations; data were collected at the crisis’ onset (2008) and nadir (2013). Defying expectations, neither perceived group-threat nor principled pro-immigration credos (Universalism; pro-diversity) were found to affect the evolution of anti-immigrant sentiment appreciably throughout the economic downturn; however, ideological polarisation and elite-bashing yielded increasingly benign impact. These findings suggest that intergroup tensions were kept latent by a dynamics of political competition that has side-lined immigration as salient social issue: the prevalence of anti-austerity, anti-corruption political rhetoric contributed to pre-empting anti-immigrant sentiment
Austerity · Demographic economics · Development economics · Economics · Elite · Explanatory model · Explanatory power · Immigration · Political science · Politics · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Social and Intergroup Psychology
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| Unique citing works | 9 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2023 (7) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |