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The conditional effects of the refugee crisis on immigration attitudes and nationalism
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Abstract What was the impact of the 2014–2016 refugee crisis on immigration attitudes and national identification in Europe? Several studies show that radical right parties benefitted electorally from the refugee crisis, but research also shows that anti-immigration attitudes did not increase. We hypothesize... view more
What was the impact of the 2014–2016 refugee crisis on immigration attitudes and national identification in Europe? Several studies show that radical right parties benefitted electorally from the refugee crisis, but research also shows that anti-immigration attitudes did not increase. We hypothesize that the refugee crisis affected right-wing citizens differently than left-wing citizens. We test this hypothesis by combining individual level survey data (from five Eurobarometer waves in the 2014–2016 period) with country level statistics on the asylum applications in 28 EU member states. In Western Europe, we find that increases in the number of asylum applications lead to a polarization of attitudes towards immigrants between left- and right-leaning citizens. In the Southern European ‘arrival countries’ and in Central-Eastern Europe we find no significant effects. Nationalistic attitudes are also not affected significantly.... view less
Keywords
political attitude; attitude; attitude research; attitude formation; migration; migrant; nationalism; polarization; refugee; political left; political right; regression analysis; Eurobarometer; Western Europe; Southern Europe; Eastern Europe; Europe
Classification
Political Process, Elections, Political Sociology, Political Culture
Migration, Sociology of Migration
Social Psychology
Free Keywords
Left-right; migration attitudes; refugee crisis
Document language
English
Publication Year
2021
Page/Pages
p. 227-247
Journal
European Union Politics, 22 (2021) 2
Issue topic
Special Issue: Tracing the development of nationalist attitudes in the EU
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1177/1465116520988905
ISSN
1741-2757
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed