Attitudes toward Immigration as a Sense of Group Position

Kusow, Abdi M.; DeLisi, Matt

doi:10.1080/00380253.2020.1756518

Cited by 6 publications

(5 citation statements)

References 34 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…Most modern studies of racial threat in white Americans highlight its competitive dimension (Bobo and Hutchings 1996; Nguyen, Carter, and Carter 2019; Scheepers 2002; Schmid, Al Ramiah, and Hewstone 2014; Schneider 2007), which is rooted in Blumer’s third feeling of entitlement. However, recent work has argued for a need to explore threat as multi-dimensional (Kusow and DeLisi 2020; Reichelmann and Hunt 2021a). A few studies have focused on its affective core, which is presented in the fourth feeling of fear and suspicion.…”

Section: Theoretical Backgroundmentioning

confidence: 99%

Racialized Emotions When Thinking about Slavery: Associations Between Group Identification and Feelings of Threat, Shame, and Guilt Among White Americans

Reichelmann

2023

Social Currents

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

This paper highlights the relationship between group identification and racialized emotions among white Americans when asked to think about slavery on U.S. soil. Previous scholarship focuses on the consequences of such emotions or stimuli that increase them; however, there is limited work focusing on threat as a racialized emotion, or more broadly who is likely to experience heightened emotions when asked to think about historical racial violence that implicates their group. Using Group Position Theory and Identity Theory, I elevate work on racial threat as an emotion, and demonstrate how it is linked to white Americans’ group identification with their racial, national, and class identities. Then I compare this relationship to other commonly studied emotions—guilt and shame—to demonstrate threat’s unique relationship with these identities. Using survey data collected from a Survey Sampling International panel ( n = 869), I find that feelings of threat are maximized among white Americans who strongly identify with their racial and national identities. In contrast, guilt is heightened among whites who strongly identify with their racial identity, but weakly identify with their national identity, while shame has no significant relationship with these identities. Feelings of threat are also more likely in respondents who self-identify as members of the lower or working class (in comparison to the middle class). The results highlight one way that threat is a distinct emotional experience for white Americans when compared to other emotions. I conclude by discussing how understanding emotions as an outcome of white Americans’ self-perceptions of their identities as group members stands to advance the study of intergroup relations and racism in the United States.

show abstract

Section: Theoretical Backgroundmentioning

confidence: 99%

Racialized Emotions When Thinking about Slavery: Associations Between Group Identification and Feelings of Threat, Shame, and Guilt Among White Americans

Reichelmann

2023

Social Currents

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…Many researchers have analysed the identity aspects of opinions towards immigrants (Azrout et al 2011;2017;de Vreese 2017;Esses 2021;Kusow and DeLisi 2021). Azrout et al (2011) argued that the key component to negative attitudes towards immigration is rooted in the consideration that immigrants are "different".…”

Section: Theoretical Backgroundmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The latest migration waves and the new refugees' crisis have developed an increasing interest in the public and academic debate (Azrout et al 2011;Esses 2021;Kusow and DeLisi 2021). Confirmatory Factory Analysis (CFA) and the Structural Equation Model (SEM) have up to now been valid and significant approaches for the study of attitudes towards immigrants.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

A fuzzy-hybrid analysis of citizens’ perception toward immigrants in Europe

Martı́n

Indelicato

2022

Qual Quant

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

The public and political debate about immigration now play a big role in all European elections, and there is a trend increasing an anti-immigrant sentiment that receives important media attention. This work, based on the European Social Survey (ESS) round 9 data for 27 European countries, contributes to such debate by introducing a new method in the field, a Fuzzy-Hybrid Approach (FHA), that complements other methodological methods that have been used to measure citizens’ attitudes towards immigrants. The novel approach in the field provides a synthetic indicator that measures openness towards immigrants (OTISI). Then, we analyse the relationship that exists between some specific sociodemographic variables and the new index. Results show that country, political orientation, age, religion, economic situation, gender, birthplace, employment, education, universalism, and conformity are key drivers that explain different attitudes towards immigrants. Our findings concur with other previous studies showing that the results are robust and that the method can be applied in future social science studies.

show abstract

“…However, the position taken by candidates regarding immigration policy during campaigns is capable of influencing votes significantly (Hatton, 2021). Since attitudes partly reflect objective threats but also perceived threats (Kusow & DeLisi, 2020), there is no need to say that the narratives of far-right parties may increase negative atti-tudes towards some specific groups and, in particular, immigrants, undermining social trust and making the success of integration policies and the potential for social cohesion more unlikely. The topic is also timely because the functioning of democracy is changing considerably due to the abundant sources of information that substantially modify how individuals perceive reality and build their knowledge (Dahlgren, 2018).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Explaining Attitudes Towards Immigration: The Role of Economic Factors

García-Muñoz

Baleix

2021

PaG

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

In this article, we investigate the determinants of individuals’ opinions concerning the economic impact of immigrants. Unlike most previous studies, we use a large sample of 61 countries (Joint WVS/EVS 2017–2020 dataset) that are either net receivers or net emitters of migrants. Using a multilevel model, we test the effect of individuals’ characteristics and of several macroeconomic variables on the assessment of immigrants’ impact on development. We highlight that natives’ evaluation of the economic consequences of immigration is more influenced by age, trust, education, and income than by contextual variables such as growth, inflation, inequalities, income level, or number of immigrants in the country. Our results match with the hypothesis that immigrants are considered substitutes for low- and medium-skilled workers in capital-abundant countries. However, neither labour-market nor welfare-state considerations can be considered as the main drivers of the appraisals made about the economic impact of immigration. Our results tend to confirm the prediction that greater contact with immigrants reduces anti-immigrant opinions, in particular for skilled people. In contrast, immigrant inflows lead low- and medium-skilled people to make worse judgments concerning the economic consequences of immigration. All in all, our results validate the view that education comprises a major part of the cognitive assessment of the role played by immigrants in the economy, at least in high-income countries.

show abstract

Attitudes toward Immigration as a Sense of Group Position

Cited by 6 publications

References 34 publications

Racialized Emotions When Thinking about Slavery: Associations Between Group Identification and Feelings of Threat, Shame, and Guilt Among White Americans

Racialized Emotions When Thinking about Slavery: Associations Between Group Identification and Feelings of Threat, Shame, and Guilt Among White Americans

A fuzzy-hybrid analysis of citizens’ perception toward immigrants in Europe

Explaining Attitudes Towards Immigration: The Role of Economic Factors

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About