Protecting Us, Protecting Europe? Public Concern about Immigration and Declining Support for European Integration in Italy

Barbulescu, Roxana; Beaudonnet, Laurie

doi:10.1080/15705854.2014.885765

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“…Eurosceptics have repeatedly attacked Schengen for promoting a failed immigration policy (Orbán 2017). In addition, national governments of EU member states have found it convenient to shift the blame regarding migration-related problems toward the European level (Barbulescu and Beaudonnet 2014). Following these observations, we hypothesize that the refugee crisis strengthened the link between antiimmigrant attitudes and Euroscepticism.…”

Section: H3: the Refugee Crisis Has Strengthened The Link Between Thementioning

confidence: 72%

“…For many Eurosceptics, Schengen and the open-border framework are synonymous with a failed immigration and citizenship policy (Orbán 2017). In addition, some national governments in Europe frame migration-related issues as European problems, even if only to divert public attention from their own historical or contemporary failures in the fields of migration and domestic integration policy (Barbulescu and Beaudonnet 2014). This strong interlinkage of the two topics makes it reasonable to expect an attitudinal link between sentiments toward immigrants and sentiments toward the EU.…”

Section: European Identity Attitudes Toward Immigrants and Euroscepmentioning

confidence: 99%

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The “Refugee Crisis,” Immigration Attitudes, and Euroscepticism

Stockemer

Niemann²,

Unger³

et al. 2019

International Migration Review

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Between 2015 and 2017, the European Union (EU) was confronted with a major crisis in its history, the so-called “European refugee crisis.” Since the multifaceted crisis has provoked many different responses, it is also likely to have influenced individuals’ assessments of immigrants and European integration. Using data from three waves of the European Social Survey (ESS) — the wave before the crisis in 2012, the wave at the beginning of the crisis in 2014, and the wave right after the (perceived) height of the crisis in 2016 — we test the degree to which the European refugee crisis increased Europeans’ anti-immigrant sentiment and Euroscepticism, as well as the influence of Europeans’ anti-immigrant attitudes on their level of Euroscepticism. As suggested by prior research, our results indicate that there is indeed a consistent and solid relationship between more critical attitudes toward immigrants and increased Euroscepticism. Surprisingly, however, we find that the crisis increased neither anti-immigrant sentiments nor critical attitudes toward the EU and did not reinforce the link between rejection of immigrants and rejection of the EU. These findings imply that even under a strong external shock, fundamental political attitudes remain constant.

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Section: H3: the Refugee Crisis Has Strengthened The Link Between Thementioning

confidence: 72%

Section: European Identity Attitudes Toward Immigrants and Euroscepmentioning

confidence: 99%

The “Refugee Crisis,” Immigration Attitudes, and Euroscepticism

Stockemer

Niemann²,

Unger³

et al. 2019

International Migration Review

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“…Are migrants perceived as a negative or positive local amenity in Italy? A growing body of research on public opinion towards migrants indicates that in Italy current migration is frequently perceived negatively by natives (Barbulescu and Beaudonnet 2014;Panichella and Ambrosini 2018). The results of the European Social Survey conducted in Italy in 2002 suggest that most Italians are not willing to live in an area populated by ethnic minority groups (55%).…”

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Housing Values and the Residential Settlement of Migrants: Zooming in on Neighbourhoods in Italian Provincial Capitals

Kalantaryan

Alessandrini

2020

Spat Demogr

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This study looks at the relationship between housing values (prices and rents) and the residential settlement of migrants in different neighbourhoods in Italian provincial capitals. We exploit here the high spatial resolution dataset on the settlement of migrants developed within the Data for Integration (D4I) project. The D4I information on resident population characteristics was merged with a dataset on housing values for civilian and economic residential units using boundaries defined by local housing market characteristics. The results suggest that: (1) more diverse neighbourhoods are also those with relatively lower housing values; (2) the relationship between housing values and the concentration of migrants is non-linear; and (3) the sign and significance of the association varies significantly depending on the origin of migrants.

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“…For example, Italy has in recent years witnessed a severe decline in support for EU despite its long history of strong Euro-enthusiasm. Barbulescu and Beaudonnet relate this to growing concerns about the massive migration flows from both outside the EU, as well as from the Central and Eastern European member states, which the political elites in Italy have framed as European issues requiring European solutions (Barbulescu and Beaudonnet, 2014). While empirical research clearly indicates that overall, intra-EU migrants pay more into welfare systems than they receive (e.g.…”

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The Crisis of Free Movement in the European Union

Lillie¹,

Simola²

2017

Mondi Migranti

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The European Union is in crisis, and a major part of this is the increasing political backlash against the free mobility of persons. Probably the most dramatic symptom of this is Brexit, which could result in the stripping of rights or, in some scenarios, even physical expulsion of millions of people, whether Britons living in other EU countries, or EU citizens presently living in Britain. While the vote outcome apparently took policy makers by surprise, it represents a trend to redefine the status of intra-EU migrants in ways which clarify that EU citizenship is not equivalent to citizenship in the host country of residence. Unresolved contradictions between supernationally regulated free mobility and national sovereignty have come to the fore, precipitating political crisis. This is a serious obstacle for the European project, and one which is fundamentally embedded in the design of the European integration. As a social engineering project driven by "spill-over," European integration incentivizes elites to cooperate transnationally, but leaves large portions of national civil society outside this élite consensus. The consequence is that free movement of persons is stuck in a fragmented and variegated regulatory mode in which the social rights of mobile persons are precarious and dependent on market contingencies.

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Protecting Us, Protecting Europe? Public Concern about Immigration and Declining Support for European Integration in Italy

Cited by 18 publications

References 36 publications

The “Refugee Crisis,” Immigration Attitudes, and Euroscepticism

The “Refugee Crisis,” Immigration Attitudes, and Euroscepticism

Housing Values and the Residential Settlement of Migrants: Zooming in on Neighbourhoods in Italian Provincial Capitals

The Crisis of Free Movement in the European Union

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