Can community involvement policies mitigate Nimbyism and local opposition to asylum seeker centres
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6327554 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Romy Dekker (0000-0001-6460-4223, Utrecht University, the Netherlands), Rianne Dekker, Chad Oliver (0000-0001-5280-9838, University College London, UK), Caroline Oliver, Karin Geuijen (0000-0001-5751-5951, Utrecht University, the Netherlands) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 49 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 553-571 |
| Publication date | 2021-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Policy & Politics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0305-5736 • E-ISSN: 1470-8442 |
| Publisher | Bristol University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1332/030557321x16305840835010 |
| OpenAlex | W3205462691 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 24 |
Local governments have to take authoritative decisions about the placement of controversial but necessary facilities such as Asylum Seeker Centres (ASCs). Opposition from local residents against such facilities is often considered to be an expression of NIMBYism. This article explores whether a policy of community involvement addressing the underlying reasons for local opposition can mitigate such opposition towards an ASC. It uses a mixed methods approach combining survey data and semi-structured interviews among neighbourhood residents about an ASC in Utrecht. Local opposition is associated with experiences of economic competition and cultural threat. The policy strategy did not moderate these effects. Those who became involved were a selective group of locals who were largely already accepting of the centre and its inhabitants and involvement was often incidental. However, contact between asylum seekers and neighbours developing within and beyond the ASC mediated the effect of cultural threat – confirming Allport’s contact hypothesis
Neighbourhood (mathematics · Opposition (politics · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Refugee · Sociology · Law · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Health and Trauma · Migration, Refugees, and Integration
Explaining opposition to refugee resettlement
Comparative Analyses of Public Attitudes Toward Immigrants and Immigration Using Multinational Survey Data
Attitudes Toward Asylum Policy in a Divided Europe
Uneven geographies of asylum accommodation
Effects of Perceived Economic Competition on People’s Willingness to Help Empower Immigrants
Rethinking Nimbyism
Inappropriate and incongruous’
Interethnic Relations in a Changing Political Context
Attitudes toward Asylum Seekers in Small Local Communities
Invalid theory impedes our understanding
Accommodating Otherness
Crowding out Citizenship
Core Networks and Whites’ Attitudes Toward Immigrants and Immigration Policy
Implementing integration in the UK
Explaining and Justifying Authoritative Decisions
A meta-analytic test of intergroup contact theory
New neighbours in a time of change
Migrants in the Mountains
Objections to Asylum Seeker Centres
Saltdean can't cope
| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 0,75 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2026 (5) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |