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The nexus between attitudes towards migration and the COVID-19 pandemic: evidence from 11 European countries
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Abstract The COVID-19 pandemic has a profound impact on the everyday lives of people around the world. This includes economic issues, social isolation and anxieties directly related to the coronavirus. Some of these phenomena relate to social disintegration, which in turn has been linked to negative outgroup... view more
The COVID-19 pandemic has a profound impact on the everyday lives of people around the world. This includes economic issues, social isolation and anxieties directly related to the coronavirus. Some of these phenomena relate to social disintegration, which in turn has been linked to negative outgroup sentiments. However, the tenuous connection between pandemic developments and international migration processes calls into question whether a link between pandemic concomitants and immigration-related attitudes exists empirically. Arguments based on political cues and media effects even suggest that the widespread focus on the COVID-19 pandemic suppresses the issue salience of immigration and negative immigration sentiments. To test these propositions, we employ data from a newly collected cross-sectional study carried out in November and December 2020 in 11 European countries. We distinguish between general migration-related threats and blaming the pandemic on immigration as outcome variables. The results suggest that pandemic-related concerns increase both threat perceptions and perceptions that immigration is driving the pandemic, but more clearly so for the latter. On the macro level, we find that where the pandemic is more severe, respondents are less likely to blame immigrants. This suggests that a country-level suppression of salience of immigration is indeed taking place.... view less
Keywords
Europe; attitude; epidemic; multi-level analysis; cross-sectional study; migration; attitude research; comparative research; prejudice
Classification
Social Psychology
Migration, Sociology of Migration
Free Keywords
COVID-19; comparative; coronavirus; ZA7776: Everyday Life in Germany and Europe 2020 (Solikris) (Dataset Version 1.0.0)
Document language
English
Publication Year
2022
Page/Pages
p. 1-22
Journal
Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (2022)
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2022.2114889
ISSN
1469-9451
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed
Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution 4.0
FundingGefördert durch die Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Projektnummer 491156185 / Funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) - Project number 491156185