1,019
Views
3
CrossRef citations to date
0
Altmetric
Articles

A tale of two logics: how solidarity and threat perceptions shape immigrant attitudes towards immigration in Western Europe

ORCID Icon & ORCID Icon

References

  • Achen, Christopher H. (2002). ‘Toward a New Political Methodology: Microfoundations and ART’, Annual Review of Political Science, 5:1, 423–50.
  • Akhtar, Salman (1995). ‘A Third Individuation: Immigration, Identity, and the Psychoanalytic Process’, Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 43:4, 1051–84.
  • Alanya, Ahu, Marc Swyngedouw, Veronique Vandezande, and Karen Phalet (2017). ‘Close Encounters: Minority and Majority Perceptions of Discrimination and Intergroup Relations in Antwerp, Belgium’, International Migration Review, 51:1, 191–217.
  • Alarian, Hannah M., and Michael Neureiter (2021). ‘Values or Origin? Mandatory Immigrant Integration and Immigration Attitudes in Europe’, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 47:5, 1006–27.
  • Alba, Richard (2020). The Great Demographic Illusion. Majority, Minority, and the Expanding American Mainstream. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
  • Andreouli, Eleni, and Caroline Howarth (2013). ‘National Identity, Citizenship and Immigration: Putting Identity in Context’, Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, 43:3, 361–82.
  • Angrist, Joshua D., and Jörn-Steffen Pischke (2015). Mastering ‘Metrics’: The Path from Cause to Effect. New York: Princeton University Press.
  • Bansak, Kirk, Jens Hainmueller, and Dominik Hangartner (2016). ‘How Economic, Humanitarian, and Religious Concerns Shape European Attitudes toward Asylum Seekers’, Science, 354:6309, 217–22.
  • Banulescu-Bogdan, Natalia, and Meghan Benton (2017). In Search of Common Values amid Large-Scale Immigrant Integration Pressures. Brussels: Migration Policy Institute, available at https://www.migrationpolicy.org/research/search-common-values-amid-large-scale-immigrant-integration-pressures (accessed 29 March 2022).
  • Barou, Jacques (2014). ‘Integration of Immigrants in France: A Historical Perspective’, Identities, 21:6, 642–57.
  • Beck, Nathaniel, Jonathan N. Katz, and Richard Tucker (1998). ‘Taking Time Seriously: Time-Series-Cross-Section Analysis with a Binary Dependent Variable’, American Journal of Political Science, 42:4, 1260–88.
  • Ben-Nun Bloom, Pazit, Gizem Arikan, and Gallya Lahav (2015). ‘The Effect of Perceived Cultural and Material Threats on Ethnic Preferences in Immigration Attitudes’, Ethnic and Racial Studies, 38:10, 1760–78.
  • Berry, John W., and Rudolf Kalin (1995). ‘Multicultural and Ethnic Attitudes in Canada: An Overview of the 1991 National Survey’, Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science/Revue canadienne des sciences du comportement, 27:3, 301–20.
  • Bertrand, Marianne, Esther Duflo, and Sendhil Mullainathan (2004). ‘How Much Should We Trust Differences-In-Differences Estimates?’, The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 119:1, 249–75.
  • Blinder, Scott (2015). ‘Imagined Immigration: The Impact of Different Meanings of “Immigrants” in Public Opinion and Policy Debates in Britain’, Political Studies, 63:1, 80–100.
  • Brylka, Asteria, Inga Jasinskaja-Lahti, and Tuuli Anna Mähönen (2016). ‘The Majority Influence on Interminority Attitudes: The Secondary Transfer Effect of Positive and Negative Contact’, International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 50, 76–88.
  • Carpenter, Christopher, and Carlos Dobkin (2011). ‘The Minimum Legal Drinking Age and Public Health’, The Journal of Economic Perspectives, 25:2, 133–56.
  • Castles, Stephen, and Mark J. Miller (2014). The Age of Migration: International Population Movements in the Modern World. 4th ed. Cambridge: Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Cavaille, Charlotte, and Jeremy Ferwerda (2022). ‘How Distributional Conflict over in-Kind Benefits Generates Support for Far-Right Parties’, The Journal of Politics. https://doi.org/10.1086/720643.
  • Ceobanu, Alin M., and Xavier Escandell (2010). ‘Comparative Analyses of Public Attitudes toward Immigrants and Immigration Using Multinational Survey Data: A Review of Theories and Research’, Annual Review of Sociology, 36:1, 309–28.
  • Collier, Paul (2013). Exodus: How Migration Is Changing Our World. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Cortland, Clarissa I., Maureen A. Craig, Jenessa R. Shapiro, Jennifer A. Richeson, Rebecca Neel, and Noah J. Goldstein (2017). ‘Solidarity through Shared Disadvantage: Highlighting Shared Experiences of Discrimination Improves Relations between Stigmatized Groups’, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 113:4, 547–67.
  • Craig, Maureen A., and Jennifer A. Richeson (2016). ‘Stigma-Based Solidarity: Understanding the Psychological Foundations of Conflict and Coalition among Members of Different Stigmatized Groups’, Current Directions in Psychological Science, 25:1, 21–7.
  • Davidov, Eldad, Bart Meulemann, Shalom H. Schwartz, and Peter Schmidt (2014). ‘Individual Values, Cultural Embeddedness, and Anti-Immigration Sentiments: Explaining Differences in the Effect of Values on Attitudes toward Immigration across Europe’, KZfSS Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie, 66:S1, 263–85.
  • Davidov, Eldad, and Moshe Semyonov (2017). ‘Attitudes toward Immigrants in European Societies’, International Journal of Comparative Sociology, 58:5, 359–66.
  • Dimitrova, Radosveta, Michael Bender, Athanasios Chasiotis, and Fons J. R. van de Vijver (2013). ‘Ethnic Identity and Acculturation of Turkish-Bulgarian Adolescents’, International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 37:1, 1–10.
  • Drouhot, Lucas G., and Victor Nee (2019). ‘Assimilation and the Second Generation in Europe and America: Blending and Segregating Social Dynamics between Immigrants and Natives’, Annual Review of Sociology, 45:1, 177–99.
  • Fasel, Nicole, Eva G. T. Green, and Oriane Sarrasin (2013). ‘Facing Cultural Diversity: Anti-Immigrant Attitudes in Europe’, European Psychologist, 18:4, 253–62.
  • Festinger, Leon (1957). A Theory of Cognitive Dissonance. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
  • Fetzer, Joel (2000). Public Attitudes toward Immigration in the United States, France, and Germany. New York: Cambridge University Press.
  • Finkel, Steven E., John F. McCauley, Michael Neureiter, and Chris A. Belasco (2021). ‘Community Violence and Support for Violent Extremism: Evidence from the Sahel’, Political Psychology, 42:1, 143–61.
  • Foner, Nancy, and Christophe Bertossi (2011). ‘Immigration, Incorporation, and Diversity in Western Europe and the United States: Comparative Perspectives’, American Behavioral Scientist, 55:12, 1535–40.
  • Fouka, Vasiliki, and Marco Tabellini (2021). ‘Changing in-Group Boundaries: The Effect of Immigration on Race Relations in the United States’, American Political Science Review, 116:3, 1–17.
  • Glasford, Demis E., and Justine Calcagno (2012). ‘The Conflict of Harmony: Intergroup Contact, Commonality and Political Solidarity between Minority Groups’, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 48:1, 323–8.
  • Goodman, Sara Wallace (2010). ‘Integration Requirements for Integration’s Sake? Identifying, Categorising and Comparing Civic Integration Policies’, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 36:5, 753–72.
  • Hainmueller, Jens, and Daniel. J. Hopkins (2014). ‘Public Attitudes toward Immigration’, Annual Review of Political Science, 17:1, 225–49.
  • Hercowitz-Amir, Adi, Rebeca Raijman, and Eldad Davidov (2017). ‘Host or Hostile? Attitudes towards Asylum Seekers in Israel and in Denmark’, International Journal of Comparative Sociology, 58:5, 416–39.
  • Hindriks, Paul, Maykel Verkuyten, and Marcel Coenders (2014). ‘Interminority Attitudes: The Roles of Ethnic and National Identification, Contact, and Multiculturalism’, Social Psychology Quarterly, 77:1, 54–74.
  • Just, Aida, and Christopher J. Anderson (2015). ‘Dual Allegiances? Immigrants’ Attitudes toward Immigration’, The Journal of Politics, 77:1, 188–201.
  • Karreth, Johannes, Shane P. Singh, and Szymon M. Stojek (2015). ‘Explaining Attitudes toward Immigration: The Role of Regional Context and Individual Predispositions’, West European Politics, 38:6, 1174–202.
  • Lu, Fan (2020). ‘Forging Ties: The Effect of Discrimination on Asian Americans’ Perceptions of Political Commonality with Latinos’, Politics, Groups, and Identities, 8:3, 595–614.
  • Lundström, Catrin (2017). ‘The White Side of Migration: Reflections on Race, Citizenship and Belonging in Sweden’, Nordic Journal of Migration Research, 7:2, 79–87.
  • Malhotra, Neil, Yotam Margalit, and Cecilia Hyunjung Mo (2013). ‘Economic Explanations for Opposition to Immigration: Distinguishing between Prevalence and Conditional Impact’, American Journal of Political Science, 57:2, 391–410.
  • Maliepaard, Mieke, and Maykel Verkuyten (2018). ‘National Disidentification and Minority Identity: A Study among Muslims in Western Europe’, Self and Identity, 17:1, 75–91.
  • Maxwell, Rahsaan (2016). ‘Cultural Diversity and Its Limits in Western Europe’, Current History, 115:779, 95–101.
  • Mayda, Anna Maria (2006). ‘Who Is against Immigration? A Cross-Country Investigation of Individual Attitudes toward Immigrants’, Review of Economics and Statistics, 88:3, 510–30.
  • Meeusen, Cecil, Koen Abts, and Bart Meuleman (2019). ‘Between Solidarity and Competitive Threat?: The Ambivalence of Anti-Immigrant Attitudes among Ethnic Minorities’, International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 71, 1–13.
  • Mulcahy, Suzanne (2011). Europe’s Migrant Policies: Illusions of Integration. 1st ed. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Neureiter, Michael (2019). ‘Evaluating the Effects of Immigrant Integration Policies in Western Europe Using a Difference-in-Differences Approach’, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 45:15, 2779–800.
  • Neureiter, Michael (2022). ‘The Effect of Immigrant Integration Policies on Public Immigration Attitudes: Evidence from a Survey Experiment in the United Kingdom’, International Migration Review, 56:4, 1040–68.
  • Pettigrew, Thomas F. (1998). ‘Reactions toward the New Minorities of Western Europe’, Annual Review of Sociology, 24:1, 77–103.
  • Schneider, Silke L., and Anthony F. Heath (2020). ‘Ethnic and Cultural Diversity in Europe: Validating Measures of Ethnic and Cultural Background’, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 46:3, 533–52.
  • Schrodt, Philip A. (2014). ‘Seven Deadly Sins of Contemporary Quantitative Political Analysis’, Journal of Peace Research, 51:2, 287–300.
  • Sirin, Cigdem V., Nicholas A. Valentino, and José D. Villalobos (2017). ‘The Social Causes and Political Consequences of Group Empathy: Causes and Consequences of Group Empathy’, Political Psychology, 38:3, 427–48.
  • Staudenmaier, Rebecca (2018). German population becoming more diverse. Deutsche Welle, available at https://www.dw.com/en/german-population-with-immigrant-background-reaches-new-peak-in-2017/a-44906046 (accessed 29 March 2022).
  • Stevens, Gonneke W. J. M., and Jochem Thijs (2018). ‘Perceived Group Discrimination and Psychological Well-Being in Ethnic Minority Adolescents’, Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 48:10, 559–70.
  • Subašić, Emina, Michael T. Schmitt, and Katherine J. Reynolds (2011). ‘Are We All in This Together? Co-Victimization, Inclusive Social Identity and Collective Action in Solidarity with the Disadvantaged’, The British Journal of Social Psychology, 50:4, 707–25.
  • Verkuyten, Maykel (2010). ‘Assimilation Ideology and Situational Well-Being among Ethnic Minority Members’, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 46:2, 269–75.
  • Verkuyten, Maykel, Jochem Thijs, and Nadya Gharaei (2019). ‘Discrimination and Academic (Dis)Engagement of Ethnic-Racial Minority Students: A Social Identity Threat Perspective’, Social Psychology of Education, 22:2, 267–90.
  • Ward, Colleen, and Anne-Marie Masgoret (2008). ‘Attitudes toward Immigrants, Immigration, and Multiculturalism in New Zealand: A Social Psychological Analysis’, International Migration Review, 42:1, 227–48.

Reprints and Corporate Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

To request a reprint or corporate permissions for this article, please click on the relevant link below:

Academic Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

Obtain permissions instantly via Rightslink by clicking on the button below:

If you are unable to obtain permissions via Rightslink, please complete and submit this Permissions form. For more information, please visit our Permissions help page.