How perceptions of immigrants trigger feelings of economic and cultural threats in two welfare states
Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
Standard
How perceptions of immigrants trigger feelings of economic and cultural threats in two welfare states. / Fietkau, Sebastian; Hansen, Kasper Møller.
In: European Union Politics, Vol. 19, No. 1, 2018, p. 119-139.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
Harvard
APA
Vancouver
Author
Bibtex
}
RIS
TY - JOUR
T1 - How perceptions of immigrants trigger feelings of economic and cultural threats in two welfare states
AU - Fietkau, Sebastian
AU - Hansen, Kasper Møller
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - Better understanding of attitudes toward immigration is crucial to avoid misperception of immigration in the public debate. Through two identical online survey experiments applying morphed faces of non-Western immigrants and textual vignettes, the authors manipulate complexion, education, family background, and gender in Denmark and Germany. For women, an additional split in which half of the women wore a headscarf is performed. In both countries, highly skilled immigrants are preferred to low-skilled immigrants. Danes are more skeptical toward non-Western immigration than Germans. Essentially, less educated Danes are very critical of accepting non-Western immigrants in their country. It is suggested that this difference is driven by a large welfare state in Denmark compared to Germany, suggesting a stronger fear in welfare societies that immigrants will exploit welfare benefits.
AB - Better understanding of attitudes toward immigration is crucial to avoid misperception of immigration in the public debate. Through two identical online survey experiments applying morphed faces of non-Western immigrants and textual vignettes, the authors manipulate complexion, education, family background, and gender in Denmark and Germany. For women, an additional split in which half of the women wore a headscarf is performed. In both countries, highly skilled immigrants are preferred to low-skilled immigrants. Danes are more skeptical toward non-Western immigration than Germans. Essentially, less educated Danes are very critical of accepting non-Western immigrants in their country. It is suggested that this difference is driven by a large welfare state in Denmark compared to Germany, suggesting a stronger fear in welfare societies that immigrants will exploit welfare benefits.
KW - Faculty of Social Sciences
KW - migration
KW - opinion
KW - opinion farmation
KW - survey experiment
KW - welfare state
U2 - 10.1177/1465116517734064
DO - 10.1177/1465116517734064
M3 - Journal article
VL - 19
SP - 119
EP - 139
JO - European Union Politics
JF - European Union Politics
SN - 1465-1165
IS - 1
ER -
ID: 189465284