Explaining Attitudes Toward Refugees and Immigrants in Europe
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7972925 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lamis Abdelaaty (0000-0001-7720-4747, Syracuse University, corresponding author), L G Steele (0000-0002-5875-9162, Department of Sociology, City University of New York, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, New York, NY, USA) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 70 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 110-130 |
| Publication date | 2022-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Political Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0032-3217 • E-ISSN: 1467-9248 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0032321720950217 |
| OpenAlex | W3085973512 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 70 |
| References cited | 66 |
While there is a large literature on attitudes toward immigrants, scholars have not systematically examined the determinants of attitudes toward refugees. Often, refugees are simply treated as a subset of immigrants, under the assumption that attitudes toward both sets of foreigners are similar. In this article, we examine whether there are distinctions between attitudes toward refugees and immigrants, as well as variation in their determinants. We address these questions using individual-level data from 16 countries in the 2002 and 2014 waves of the European Social Survey. We demonstrate that these two groups of foreigners are, indeed, viewed as distinct and that differences emerge because attitudes toward refugees are more often related to macro-level factors while immigrants are more frequently associated with micro-level economic concerns. By distinguishing between refugees and immigrants, this article addresses an important gap in the academic literature on attitudes toward foreigners in Europe
Demographic economics · Development economics · Economics · European Social Survey · Immigration · Political science · Politics · Refugee · Sociology · Variation (astronomy · Law · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Populism, Right-Wing Movements · Psychology · Social Psychology
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| Unique citing works | 70 |
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| Citations per year | 11,67 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2026 (7) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 67 |