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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"attitudes towards immigration"”.
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Attitudes Towards Immigration in Western and Central-Eastern Europe: A Comparative Analysis
… dissertation studies the puzzling divergence in immigration attitudes between Western and Central-Eastern Europe (CEE). While immigration attitudes in the West liberalised, they became increasingly conservative in the East. The gap in the willingness to accept at least some immigrants between the …
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RELIGION AS A CULTURAL CONTEXT OF INTOLERANCE: ASSESSING THE INFLUENCE OF CULTURAL(IZED) FORMS OF RELIGION ON ATTITUDES TOWARDS IMMIGRATION ACROSS EUROPEAN COUNTRIES
… the 21st century, Europe experienced a surge in immigration, fostering both ethnic and religious diversification of European societies. In addressing the dynamic landscape of inter-group relations within this evolving context, existing research is primarily grounded in social identity theory and …
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An investigation into the political psychology of attitudes towards immigration in the UK: What drives these attitudes, can they be predicted, and can they be changed?
This thesis investigates British attitudes towards immigration, a key issue in the 2016 EU referendum. As its primary contribution to the literature, it demonstrates that British people can become more positive about immigration after exposure to a short text. The thesis draws on literature …
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Contextual Dynamics of Immigration Attitudes: Regional Differences in Southern Europe
"Research in the area of attitudes towards immigration will benefit from a more thorough discussion of the relationship between degrees of political engagement and the variance of political and social tolerance towards immigrants. Drawing upon institutional theory and realistic conflict theory, I …
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The attitudes of Zululand University academics towards immigrants
South Africa has the most restrictive attitudes towards immigration and immigrants of any country that has been surveyed in the world (Mattes, McDonald, Poore Richmond 1999)). There are an estimated ten to fifteen million immigrants in South Africa (Buthelezi 1996). Immigrants are generally seen as …
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NAVIGATING PUBLIC SENTIMENT: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF IMMIGRATION POLICY PERCEPTIONS IN CANADA AND THE UNITED STATES (2017-2020)
… paper examines the comparative perceptions of immigration policy in Canada and the United States from 2017 and 2020, focusing on how demographic factors such as age, sex, education, and occupation influence public attitudes. Utilizing data from the seventh wave of the World Values Survey, the …
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Reimagining migrant language education from the bottom up: an ethnographic study
… and autumn 2018 - a time marked by hardening attitudes towards immigration and migrant integration and increased anti-foreigner sentiment. The contextualised and multi-layered analysis in this thesis highlights the mismatch between top-down discourses and imaginations of immigrant integration …
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Three Essays on Globalization, Structural Change, and Political Economy
… and my coauthors investigate the determinants of attitudes towards globalization barriers (trade and immigration) and how important these attitudes are in how people vote. In line with the existing results in the literature, we find that more educated and richer voters support freer trade and more …
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AM I RADICAL, RIGHT? THE RADICAL RIGHT FAMILY IDEOLOGICAL OUTLOOK AND RADICAL RIGHT ATTITUDE AMONG THE PUBLIC
… scholars agree is the centrality of individual attitudes towards immigration in shaping radical right voting. In a few words, we describe the awkward situation where ideologically complex parties, which are not considered single-issue parties, seem to mobilize voters on the basis of a single …
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A CULTURAL BACKLASH ALL OVER EUROPE? INVESTIGATING THE LINK FROM VALUES TO VOTES IN A COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE
… argument for the mechanism, maps voters' attitudes on relevant issue dimensions, and then subjects the argument to an empirical test in a comparative European perspective using analyses of survey data. At the theoretical level, many authors converge on a reading of electoral change …