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Social Trust and Anti-immigrant Attitudes in Europe: A Longitudinal Multi-Level Analysis
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Abstract Research investigating how social conditions influence attitudes about immigrants has focused primarily on demographic and economic factors as potential threat inducing contexts that lead to anti-immigrant sentiment. However, the empirical evidence supporting this link is mixed, while social cohesio... view more
Research investigating how social conditions influence attitudes about immigrants has focused primarily on demographic and economic factors as potential threat inducing contexts that lead to anti-immigrant sentiment. However, the empirical evidence supporting this link is mixed, while social cohesion indicators such as the influence of social trust, have largely been left unexamined. This article uses the European Social Survey (2002–2016) to test how differences in social trust, both within and between countries influence attitudes about immigrants. Results from longitudinal analyses show that countries with higher levels of social trust have more favorable attitudes toward immigrants, and while changes in social trust over time are small, they result in comparably large changes in anti-immigrant attitudes, even when controlling for other social factors. These results are robust across different model specifications and data sources.... view less
Keywords
immigration; migration; attitude; attitude research; confidence; social change; prejudice; prejudice research; social cohesion; longitudinal study; multi-level analysis
Classification
Political Process, Elections, Political Sociology, Political Culture
General Sociology, Basic Research, General Concepts and History of Sociology, Sociological Theories
Migration, Sociology of Migration
Social Psychology
Free Keywords
immigration attitudes; social trust; group threat theory; longitudial analysis; European Values Survey (EVS); European Social Survey (ESS); World Values Survey (WVS)
Document language
English
Publication Year
2021
Page/Pages
p. 1-11
Journal
Frontiers in Sociology, 6 (2021)
DOI
https://doi.org/10.3389/fsoc.2021.604884
ISSN
2297-7775
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed