How economic, humanitarian, and religious concerns shape European attitudes toward asylum seekers

By Kirk C. Bansak, Jens Hainmueller, Dominik Hangartner. Science, 2016

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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(The Struggle for) Refugee Integration into the Labour Market: Evidence from Europe (2018, background): “Moreover, given that citizen predisposition to accept refugees seems to depend on these latter’s potential economic contribution (Bansak et al. 2016), failed integration in the present may make it harder for host countries to welcome refugees in the future.”
The “Great Replacement” conspiracy: How the perceived ousting of Whites can evoke violent extremism and Islamophobia (2021, result): “, willingness to participate in the socially sanctioned persecution of Muslims; Altemeyer, 1996)— while testing, in line with previous research, whether symbolic versus realistic threats would mediate this relationship (Bansak et al., 2016; Hainmueller & Hopkins, 2014; Obaidi, Thomsen, & Bergh, 2018”
Refugee integration: Research and policy. (2018, neutral): “A study of European attitudes toward asylum seekers conducted by Bansak and colleagues (Bansak et al., 2016) demonstrated the interplay of concerns around economic threat, symbolic threat and empathy.”
Designing Information Provision Experiments (2020, background): “Barari et al. (2020) study public health messaging and social distancing in the context of the coronavirus pandemic, while Fetzer et al. (2020) and Akesson et al. (2020) study perceptions of the pandemic risk factors.”
Which Clients are Deserving of Help? : A Theoretical Model and Experimental Test (2018, result): “Related to this, in a recent study on attitudes of Europeans towards refugees, Bansak et al. (2016) show that humanitarian concerns with regard to asylum seekers’ deservingness shape European attitudes toward asylum seekers.”
Public attitudes towards support for migrants: the importance of perceived voluntary and involuntary migration (2018, background): “An experimental vignette study in 15 European countries found thatmigrantswho immigrate for economic reasons (more voluntary) are less accepted than migrants who face political or religious persecution in their country of origin (more involuntary) (Bansak, Hainmueller, and Hangartner 2016).”
Violence, Empathy and Altruism: Evidence from the Ivorian Refugee Crisis in Liberia (2018, background): “Moreover, while this literature highlights economic and cultural threat as important drivers of individuals’ reluctance to support refugees or progressive immigration policies more generally (Adida 2014), it largely overlooks the potential for past experiences with conflict or hardship to overcome t”