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Anti-immigrant Attitudes in the European Union: What Role for Values?
Anti-immigrant Attitudes in the European Union: What Role for Values?

Author(s): Vytenis Juozas Deimantas
Subject(s): Social differentiation, Migration Studies, Asylum, Refugees, Migration as Policy-fields
Published by: Lietuvos mokslų akademijos leidykla
Keywords: immigration; attitudes; values; European Union; multi-level model;

Summary/Abstract: This paper aims to analyse the connection between values individuals hold and perception whether immigration is bad or good for economy in the European Union. It applies the multilevel modelling approach on the European Social Survey rounds 1–7 and a set of the OECD economic measures. The method allows for an examination of personal (values, socioecomic and demographic) and contextual (GDP, inequality and unemployment rates) drivers of anti-immigrant tendencies. The results show that individual values are connected to how people perceive immigrants in the EU.

  • Issue Year: 32/2021
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 316-324
  • Page Count: 9
  • Language: English