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Social distance, immigrant integration, and welfare chauvinism in Sweden
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Abstract Populist radical right-wing parties across Europe garner support for welfare chauvinistic promises to limit government spending on immigrants and focus on natives' welfare instead. However, most research on the so-called immigration-welfare nexus does not study welfare chauvinism but instead focuses... view more
Populist radical right-wing parties across Europe garner support for welfare chauvinistic promises to limit government spending on immigrants and focus on natives' welfare instead. However, most research on the so-called immigration-welfare nexus does not study welfare chauvinism but instead focuses on generalized support for the welfare state. Using Swedish register-linked survey data from 2013, we study three hypothetical pathways into welfare chauvinism: via ethnic prejudice, operationalized as a desire for social distance; via the direct experience of immigrant unemployment and putative welfare receipt in the neighborhood context; and via immigrant competition at the workplace. Based on our sample of native-born Swedes, we find that both negative prejudice and the share of unemployed immigrants among the neighborhood population provide two distinct and independent routes into chauvinism, while workplace competition does not.... view less
Keywords
Sweden; immigration; social policy; integration; social distance; prejudice; social expenditures; public opinion; welfare; chauvinism; group membership; attitude
Classification
Migration, Sociology of Migration
Social Policy
Document language
English
Publication Year
2018
City
Berlin
Page/Pages
37 p.
Series
Discussion Papers / Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung, Forschungsschwerpunkt Migration und Diversität, Abteilung Migration, Integration, Transnationalisierung, SP VI 2018-102
Handle
https://hdl.handle.net/10419/178705
Status
Published Version; reviewed
Licence
Deposit Licence - No Redistribution, No Modifications