Overview
- Studies anti-immigrant attitudes around the world
- Analyzes original survery data based on the World Values Survey
- Deciphers the extent to which drivers of anti-immigrant attitudes are universal or context-specific
Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Political Science (BRIEFSPOLITICAL)
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About this book
This book compares anti-immigrant attitudes across 8 countries on 5 continents. It develops a general framework that explores grievances, personal interactions, and entrenched beliefs that explain anti-immigrant attitudes. Using original survey research with 1,000 respondents per country, the authors test the salience of their theoretical expectations across eight very diverse cases: Australia, Brazil, Canada, Germany, Japan, South Africa, the USA, and Turkey. The empirical study allows to decipher the degree to which the drivers of anti-immigrant attitudes are universal or context-specific. One the one hand, they find that positive interactions between natives reduce critical attitudes toward immigrants in all 8 countries. On the other hand, there are some country specific differences in the influence of various grievances and the three proxy variables measuring entrenched beliefs populist attitudes, nationalism and social conservativism. This book appeals to scholars and students of political sociology, comparative politics, public opinion research and related fields.
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Daniel Stockemer is Full Professor and Konrad Adenauer Research Chair in Empirical Democracy Studies in the School of Political Studies at the University of Ottawa. Daniel's research interests include political behavior, public opinion research, and political representation. He has published several books and more than 100 peer-reviewed articles.
Kofi Arhin is Ph.D. candidate in the School of Political Studies at the University of Ottawa. His main research interests are political behavior, party politcs, populism, anti-immigrant attitudes, and American politics. He is currently working on a thesis entitled "How do we Explain African American Support for Donald Trump in the United States?
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Anti-Immigrant Attitudes
Book Subtitle: The Effect of Grievances, Personal Interactions and Entrenched Beliefs
Authors: Daniel Stockemer, Kofi Arhin
Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Political Science
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-42619-3
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-42618-6Published: 06 September 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-42619-3Published: 05 September 2023
Series ISSN: 2191-5466
Series E-ISSN: 2191-5474
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 62
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 12 illustrations in colour
Topics: Political Sociology, Comparative Politics, Ethnicity, Class, Gender and Crime, Public Policy