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The social values of newly arrived immigrants in Sweden
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Abstract Concerns have been raised that immigrants coming to Europe bring fundamentally different social values, affecting the more liberal receiving societies negatively. However, the topic of immigrants’ social values is understudied, and much research studies only one issue at a time, lacking a systematic... view more
Concerns have been raised that immigrants coming to Europe bring fundamentally different social values, affecting the more liberal receiving societies negatively. However, the topic of immigrants’ social values is understudied, and much research studies only one issue at a time, lacking a systematic approach to compare immigrants and native-born across issues. We study the social values of immigrants in Sweden using a large sample of newly arrived immigrants and their opinions on 35 different moral issues. Our results indicate a large heterogeneity across different issues, with, on average, a general tendency towards liberal social values among immigrants. We find that individual characteristics are more important than characteristics of the country of origin in explaining variation of social values between immigrants. Religiosity has the largest effect, with more religious individuals having more conservative stances. Using external data sources, we compare immigrants with native-born regarding both average positions on different issues, and the correlation between issue positions. Compared with the native-born, immigrants have, on average, somewhat more conservative values, but the underlying values structure is the same.... view less
Keywords
ISSP; EVS; Sweden; value system; social factors; migrant; country of origin; religiousness
Classification
General Sociology, Basic Research, General Concepts and History of Sociology, Sociological Theories
Migration, Sociology of Migration
Free Keywords
International Social Survey Programme: Religion III - ISSP 2008 (ZA4950 v2.3.0); International Social Survey Programme: Religion IV - ISSP 2018 (ZA7570 v2.1.0); Joint EVS/WVS 2017-2022 Dataset (Joint EVS/WVS) (ZA7505 v2.0.0)
Document language
English
Publication Year
2022
Page/Pages
p. 1-19
Journal
PLOS ONE, 17 (2022) 11
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0278125
ISSN
1932-6203
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed