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Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies Volume 46, 2020 - Issue 3: Special Issue: Contested terrain: explaining divergent patterns of public opinion towards immigration within Europe
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Direct and indirect predictors of opposition to immigration in Europe: individual values, cultural values, and symbolic threat

Eldad DavidovFaculty of Management, Economics and Social Sciences, The Institute of Sociology and Social Psychology, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany;Department of Sociology, and URPP Social Networks, University of Zurich, Zürich, SwitzerlandCorrespondence[email protected]
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Daniel SeddigFaculty of Management, Economics and Social Sciences, The Institute of Sociology and Social Psychology, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany;Department of Psychology, University of Zurich, Zürich, SwitzerlandORCID Iconhttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-1595-6948
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Anastasia GorodzeiskyFaculty of Social Sciences, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, IsraelORCID Iconhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-9244-8501
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Rebeca RaijmanFaculty of Social Sciences, Department of Sociology, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel
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Peter SchmidtInstitute of Political Science, University of Giessen, Giessen, Germany
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Moshe SemyonovFaculty of Social Sciences, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
Pages 553-573 | Published online: 22 Feb 2019

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