Anti-Immigrant Prejudice in Europe: Contact, Threat Perception, and Preferences for the Exclusion of Migrants

By Lauren McLaren. 2003

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Personal Values Before and After Migration (2011, background): “Migrants may experience migration as a stressful (e.g., Kirkcaldy et al., 2005) and threatening process—due to, for instance, financial insecurity (unemployment) and current European anti-immigrant sentiment (e.g., McLaren, 2003)—thus bolstering the importance of Security values.”
Attitudes toward Immigrants, Immigration, and Multiculturalism in New Zealand: A Social Psychological Analysis 1 (2008, result): “attitudes toward immigrants in Italy, and this has been replicated in large-scale EU studies (McLaren, 2003).”
Closed doors everywhere? A meta-analysis of field experiments on ethnic discrimination in rental housing markets (2018, background): “…events (such as 9/11) in the U.S. or an increasing inflow of immigrants in European countries (Disha, Cavendish, and King 2011; Legewie 2013; McLaren 2003).3 Besides one single comparison of the 2012 and 2000 HUD testing, we are not aware of any longitudinal research covering the last two…”
Violence, displacement, contact, and attitudes toward hosting refugees (2019, background): “…that such contact helps reduce prejudice and unfavorable attitudes, as well as improve prospects for integration and cooperation (Allport, 1954; McLaren, 2003; Savelkoul et al., 2011).6 Drawing upon this more optimistic perspective, we suggest Lebanese respondents’ contacts with Syrian…”
The Dynamics of Acculturation: An Intergroup Perspective (2011, background): “Some research has, indeed, found a country level association between ethnic density and anti-immigrant prejudice (Quillian, 1995), although there is also evidence that the effects of ethnic density on individual prejudice are buffered by the amount of contact with minorities (McLaren, 2003).”
The relationship between outgroup size and anti-outgroup attitudes: A theoretical synthesis and empirical test of group threat- and intergroup contact theory (2010, background): “…addresses: Eschlueter@wzb.eu (E. Schluet 1 We like to point out that much of the literature fi attitudes of white people towards black people in t Matthews and Prothro, 1966; Taylor, 1998). a b s t r a c t Although anti-immigrant attitudes represent a widespread social problem in many European…”
Consequences of Diversity for Social Cohesion and Prejudice: The Missing Dimension of Intergroup Contact (2015, background): “Crucially, McLaren (2003) reported data on anti-immigrant prejudice in Europe consistent with the idea that contact mediates the effect of the social environment, and helps to lower perceived threat in the context of high immigration, and Tausch et al. (2007) found that perceived intergroup threat…”
Collective narcissism and anti-Semitism in Poland (2012, background): “…and concern group interests (e.g., Brown, Maras, Masser, Vivian, & Hewstone, 2001) or symbolic and concern differences in worldviews, values and beliefs (e.g., Esses, Dovidio, Jackson, & Armstrong, 2001; Greenberg et al., 1990; McGregor et al., 1998; McLaren, 2003; Pyszczynski et al., 2006).”
Integrated Threat Theory and Acceptance of Immigrant Assimilation: An Analysis of Muslim Immigration in Western Europe (2013, background): “As Muslim immigration has increased, many politicians have attacked Islam and positioned Muslim culture counter to Christian morals and values (Croucher, 2008; González et al., 2008; McLaren, 2003; Roy, 2004).”
Disentangling the Causal Relations of Perceived Group Threat and Outgroup Derogation: Cross-national Evidence from German and Russian Panel Surveys (2008, background): “Generally, symbolic threats differ from resource-based threats by referring to non-tangible issues such as the predominant values or cultural order of the ingroup (Stephan and Stephan, 2000; McLaren, 2003).”
Support for Multiculturalism and Minority Rights: The Role of National Identification and Out-group Threat (2009, background): “Studying 17 European countries, McLaren (2003) , for example, found that perceptions of realistic threat as well as beliefs that immigrants challenge or undermine national values were the predictors of negative attitudes toward immigrants.”