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Different groups, different threats: public attitudes towards immigrants
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Research on attitudes towards immigrants devotes much attention to the relative effects of economic and social-psychological factors for understanding sentiment towards immigrants, conceived in general terms. In this article, we advance this work by arguing that the context framing immigration concerns leads publics to associate different types of immigrants with different threats. An issue context that diminishes support for one ‘type’ can boost it for another. Evidence from an original survey experiment in Britain supports this claim. Security fears affect attitudes towards Muslim immigrants but economic concerns bear on views towards Eastern Europeans. While concern about crime adversely affects sentiment for East Europeans but casts Muslims more positively, cultural threats have the opposite effect. By shifting the focus onto the qualities of different types of immigrants, we highlight the importance of the target immigrant group for understanding public attitudes.
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“Despite this emerging hostile climate and the different negative framings of refugee groups, Ukrainians have, generally, not been framed as either a security threat or an economic threat, as was the case in the enlargement of the European Union in 2004, where eight Central-and Eastern European countries were included and given access to the labour market in certain countries (Hellwig and Sinno 201”
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“Moreover, Muslim refugees are often thought of in terms of being a security threat, whereas Eastern Europeans are associated more with economic threats (Hellwig and Sinno 2017).”
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“Adding to these factors is that different refugee groups often are associated with different types of perceived threats.”
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“when immigration is associated with crime, it is attitudes toward East European immigrants that are adversely affected.”
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“Hellwig & Sinno (2017) demonstrate that the context framing immigration concerns leads members of receiving societies to associate different types of immigrants with different threats.”
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“when immigration is framed as a security threat, more negative attitudes toward Muslim immigrants result”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Hellwig, T., & Sinno, A.
- Affiliations
- Indiana University Bloomington (US)
- Corresponding author
- Sinno, Abdulkader
- Venue
- Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2016-07-05
- Volume
- 43
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 339-358
- ISSN
- 1369-183X (ISSN-L)
- 1469-9451
- OpenAlex
- W2461479803
- Cited by
- 285
- References
- 58
- Citations by year
- 2026: 28 · 2025: 42 · 2024: 34 · 2023: 26 · 2022: 40 · 2021: 36 · 2020: 26 · 2019: 25 · 2018: 18 · 2017: 9 · 2016: 1
- FWCI
- 50.51
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
- Carnegie Corporation of New York (Grant D 09083)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Migration, Refugees, and Integration
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Social and Intergroup Psychology
- Social Sciences › Political Science and International Relations › Populism, Right-Wing Movements
- Keywords
- attitudes toward immigrants, public opinion, threat perception, crime concern, economic problems, cultural threat, Muslim immigrants, Eastern European migrants
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