Anti-Immigrant Attitudes in Europe: Outgroup Size and Perceived Ethnic Threat

By Silke L. Schneider. 2007

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Subfields: Sociology and Political Science

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Does Size Really Matter? On the Relationship between Immigrant Group Size and Anti-Immigrant Prejudice 1 (2017, background): “…foreign-born was often further specified to exclude internal migration within the European Union, limiting the analysis to non-Western immigrants (Schneider 2008; Schlueter and Scheepers 2010; Schlueter and Davidov 2013), immigrants from Northern and Western Europe (Green et al. 2010), or non-EU…”
The Influence of News Media on Stereotypic Attitudes Toward Immigrants in a Political Campaign (2012, background): “Given the high rate of immigrants in Switzerland, the public considers immigration to be one of the most important issues on the agenda and has an extremely negative attitude toward immigrants (Schneider, 2008).”
Attitudes Toward Immigration: The Role of Personal Predispositions (2016, background): “There is no reason to expect that the diverging findings in the different national contexts are not real; they likely reflect contextual differences such as the history of immigration and the size and saliency of different ethnic groups (cf. Schneider, 2008).”
The relationship between ethnic threat and economic insecurity in times of economic crisis: Analysis of European Social Survey data (2014, background): “This might suggest that the fear of conflict over values and culture, rather than economic and social competition, leads to increased ethnic prejudice (Schneider 2008).”
What determines attitudes to immigration in European countries? An analysis at the regional level (2013, background): “…2001; Hodson et al. 2009; Cohrs and Stelzl 2010; Duckitt and Sibley 2010; Morrison et al. 2010), and the second includes rational-based group and labour market competition theories (e.g. Turner 1986; Borjas 1999; Slaughter and Scheve 2001; Scheepers et al. 2002; Tolsma et al. 2008; Schneider 2007).”
‘Some are more equal than others’: economic egalitarianism and welfare chauvinism in the Netherlands (2010, methodology): “Anomie was measured by means of a slightly altered version of Srole’s (1956) widely used scale.”
The “Great Replacement” conspiracy: How the perceived ousting of Whites can evoke violent extremism and Islamophobia (2021, background): “…the present paper, various studies document that the relationship between outgroup size and outgroup negativity is mainly mediated by perceptions of threatened group interests (Craig & Richeson, 2014a, 2014b, 2017; Outten et al., 2012; Quillian, 1995; Schlueter & Scheepers, 2010; Schneider, 2008).”
Testing a New Theoretical Model for Attitudes Toward Immigrants (2016, background): “…because asylum seekers may be perceived as threatening the local’s dominance over resources and their economic security and stability (McLaren, 2003; Schneider, 2008); (c) Threat to social cohesion: Asylum seekers are perceived as threatening societal cohesion because they introduce their own…”
The Paradox of Well-being: Do Unfavorable Socioeconomic and Sociocultural Contexts Deepen or Dampen Radical Left and Right Voting Among the Less Well-Off? (2018, background): “Indeed, antiimmigration attitudes appear to be more widespread among the unemployed and those with lower incomes and a lower education level (see Hainmueller & Hiscox, 2007; Schneider, 2008; Semyonov, Raijman, & Gorodzeisky, 2006).”