Economic and Cultural Drivers of Immigrant Support Worldwide

Nicholas A. Valentino; Stuart N. Soroka; Shanto Iyengar; Toril Aalberg; Raymond Duch; Marta Fraile; Kyu S. Hahn; Kasper M. Hansen; Allison Harell; Marc Helbling; Simon D. Jackman; Tetsuro Kobayashi

doi:10.1017/S000712341700031X

Economic and Cultural Drivers of Immigrant Support Worldwide

Nicholas A. Valentino, Stuart N. Soroka, Shanto Iyengar, Toril Aalberg, Raymond Duch, Marta Fraile, Kyu S. Hahn, Kasper M. Hansen, Allison Harell, Marc Helbling, Simon D. Jackman, Tetsuro Kobayashi

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Abstract

Employing a comparative experimental design drawing on over 18,000 interviews across eleven countries on four continents, this article revisits the discussion about the economic and cultural drivers of attitudes towards immigrants in advanced democracies. Experiments manipulate the occupational status, skin tone and national origin of immigrants in short vignettes. The results are most consistent with a Sociotropic Economic Threat thesis: In all countries, higher-skilled immigrants are preferred to their lower-skilled counterparts at all levels of native socio-economic status (SES). There is little support for the Labor Market Competition hypothesis, since respondents are not more opposed to immigrants in their own SES stratum. While skin tone itself has little effect in any country, immigrants from Muslim-majority countries do elicit significantly lower levels of support, and racial animus remains a powerful force.

Original language	English
Journal	British Journal of Political Science
Pages (from-to)	1-26
Number of pages	26
ISSN	0007-1234
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1017/S000712341700031X
Publication status	Published - 1 Oct 2019

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economic
experimental
immigration
public opinion
skin tone

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