Guarding the gates of Europe: A typological analysis of immigration attitudes across 21 countriesFootnote

Portions of this article were presented at the 27th Annual Meeting of the International Society of Political Psychology, July 15–18, 2004, Lund, Sweden, and the Fifth International Conference of Social Psychology in French language, September 1–4, 2004, Lausanne, Switzerland. The author was funded by a Swiss National Science Foundation grant. I am grateful to Christian Staerklé, Louk Hagendoorn, Karen Phalet, David Sears, and two anonymous reviewers for insightful comments on previous drafts.

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