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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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Economic conditions, group relative deprivation and ethnic threat perceptions: a cross-national perspective

Bart MeulemanCentre for Sociological Research (CESO), University of Leuven, KU Leuven, Leuven, BelgiumCorrespondence[email protected]
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Koen AbtsTilburg School of Social and Behavioural Sciences, Tilburg University, Tilburg, The Netherlands
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Peter SchmidtInstitute of Political Science, Justus-Liebig_University Giessen, Giessen, Germany
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Thomas F. PettigrewDepartment of Psychology, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA, USA
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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, Zurich, SwitzerlandORCID Iconhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-3396-969X
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Pages 593-611 | Published online: 22 Feb 2019

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