This book compares anti-immigrant attitudes across 8 countries on 5 continents. It develops a general framework that explores grievances, personal interactions, and entrenched beliefs that explain anti-immigrant attitudes. Using original survey research with 1,000 respondents per country, the authors test the salience of their theoretical expectations across eight very diverse cases: Australia, Brazil, Canada, Germany, Japan, South Africa, the USA, and Turkey. The empirical study allows to decipher the degree to which the drivers of anti-immigrant attitudes are universal or context-specific. One the one hand, they find that positive interactions between natives reduce critical attitudes toward immigrants in all 8 countries. On the other hand, there are some country specific differences in the influence of various grievances and the three proxy variables measuring entrenched beliefs populist attitudes, nationalism and social conservativism. This book appeals to scholars and students of political sociology, comparative politics, public opinion research and related fields.

Studies anti-immigrant attitudes around the world Analyzes original survery data based on the World Values Survey Deciphers the extent to which drivers of anti-immigrant attitudes are universal or context-specific

Autorentext

Daniel Stockemer is Konrad Adenauer Research Chair in Empirical Democracy Studies and Full Professor in the School of Political Studies at the University of Ottawa, Canada. His main research interests are political participation, political representation, populism, as well as quantitative and qualitative research methods. In his career, Dr. Stockemer has published 4 single or co-authored books, 2 edited volumes, 1 textbook and more than 140 articles in peer reviewed journals. Daniel has several editorial commitments. He is editor of the International Political Science Review (IPSR) and the Springer Book Series in Electoral Politics. Jean-Nicolas Bordeleau is a PhD Student in the School of Political Studies at the University of Ottawa, Canada. He is a graduate researcher with the Konrad Adenauer Research Chair in Empirical Democracy Studies. His main research interests are political psychology, democratic resilience, electoral participation, as well as quantitative research methods and statistics. Mr. Bordeleau's research has been published in several peer reviewed journals and with several partner organizations such as the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance.

Klappentext

This book compares anti-immigrant attitudes across 8 countries on 5 continents. It develops a general framework that explores grievances, personal interactions, and entrenched beliefs that explain anti-immigrant attitudes. Using original survey research with 1,000 respondents per country, the authors test the salience of their theoretical expectations across eight very diverse cases: Australia, Brazil, Canada, Germany, Japan, South Africa, the USA, and Turkey. The empirical study allows to decipher the degree to which the drivers of anti-immigrant attitudes are universal or context-specific. One the one hand, they find that positive interactions between natives reduce critical attitudes toward immigrants in all 8 countries. On the other hand, there are some country specific differences in the influence of various grievances and the three proxy variables measuring entrenched beliefs populist attitudes, nationalism and social conservativism. This book appeals to scholars and students of political sociology, comparative politics, public opinion research and related fields.

Inhalt
Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Anti-immigrant attitudes: A policy topic of high salience.- Chapter 3. Theoretical expectations: how can we explain anti-immigrant attitudes?.- Chapter 4. Variables, Data and Methods.- Chapter 5. Results.