How perceptions of immigrants trigger feelings of economic and cultural threats in two welfare states
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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.
Original language | English |
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Journal | European Union Politics |
Volume | 19 |
Issue number | 1 |
Pages (from-to) | 119-139 |
ISSN | 1465-1165 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2018 |
- Faculty of Social Sciences - migration, opinion, opinion farmation, survey experiment, welfare state
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