The 2015 Refugee Crisis in Germany: Concerns About Immigration and Populism

Sola, Alessandro

doi:10.2139/ssrn.3169243

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“…Perceived threat does not necessarily coincide with realistic threat. In response to the recent so-called “refugee crisis”, concerns about immigration increased twice as much in East as compared to West Germany (Sola, 2018; also see Jacobsen et al, 2017). A concept that might therefore be psychologically more relevant in this context is collective or fraternal deprivation (Runciman, 1966; also see Major, 1994; Pettigrew and Meertens, 1995).…”

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Climate of Hate: Similar Correlates of Far Right Electoral Support and Right-Wing Hate Crimes in Germany

Rees

Hellmann

et al. 2019

Front. Psychol.

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Since 2015, far right parties drawing heavily on radical anti-refugee rhetoric gained electoral support in Germany while the number of political hate crimes targeting refugees rose. Both phenomena – far right electoral support and prevalence of right-wing hate crimes – have theoretically and empirically been linked with socio-structural and contextual variables. However, systematic empirical research on these links is scattered and scarce at best. We combine official statistics on political hate crimes targeting refugees in Germany and far right electoral support of the far right party “Alternative für Deutschland” (AfD) in the German national elections 2017 with socio-structural variables (proportion of foreigners and unemployment rate) and survey data collected in a representative survey (N = 1,506) in 2016. We aggregate and combine data for all German municipalities except Berlin which were the level of analysis for the current study. In path analyses, we find socio-structural variables to be unrelated with each other but significantly correlated with both criterion variables in a systematic fashion: proportion of foreigners was negatively while unemployment rate was positively linked with far right electoral support. Right-wing crime was linked positively with unemployment rate across Germany and positively with proportion of foreigners only in East Germany while proportion of foreigners was unrelated to right-wing crime in West Germany. When including survey measures into the model, they were linked with socio-structural variables in the predicted fashion – intergroup contact correlated positively with proportion of foreigners, collective deprivation correlated positively with unemployment rates, and both predicted extreme right-wing attitudes. However, their contribution to the explained variance in outcome variables above and beyond socio-structural variables was neglectable. We argue that both far right-wing electoral support and right-wing hate crime can be conceptualized as behavioral forms of political extremism shaped through socio-structural and contextual factors and discuss implications for preventing political extremism.

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Climate of Hate: Similar Correlates of Far Right Electoral Support and Right-Wing Hate Crimes in Germany

Rees

Hellmann

et al. 2019

Front. Psychol.

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“…Therefore, we include state-level information such as the logarithm of GDP per capita and unemployment rates as controls representing the state's economic condition. Sola (2018) and Deole & Huang (2020) show that the 2015 refugee crisis, which brought a huge number of asylum seekers to Germany, increased all German residents' immigration concerns. Therefore, we include the state-level growth rate of the foreign-born population to the model.…”

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“…The research finds that the country's immigration share of the population (Davis & Deole, 2020), GDP per capita (Mayda, 2006), and unemployment rate (Wilkes et al, 2008) are correlated with citizens' immigration concerns. 2020; Hangartner et al, 2019;Sola, 2018) impact their immigration concerns. Others show that the media coverage of migration topics (Benesch et al, 2019) and Islamist terror attacks (Finseraas et al, 2011;Schüller, 2015) also induce anti-immigration views.…”

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Suffering and Prejudice: Do Negative Emotions Predict Immigration Concerns?

Deole

Huang

2020

SSRN Journal

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“…In many countries of Europe and around the world, right-wing populist parties have recently achieved high rates of approval in elections. Germany as an immigration country cannot deprive from these contrary currents (Sola 2018). From the experience of previous waves of immigration to Germany 1 and its problems experienced in the integration process, critics of immigration are supported by the fact that the benefit system is demonstrably claimed by a growing number of foreigners (Riphahn et al 2013).…”

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The immigrant-native wage gap in Germany revisited

Ingwersen

Thomsen

2021

J Econ Inequal

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This study provides new evidence on the levels of economic integration experienced by foreigners and naturalised immigrants relative to native Germans from 1994 to 2015. We decompose the wage gap using the method for unconditional quantile regression models by employing a regression of the (recentered) influence function (RIF) of the gross hourly wage on a rich set of explanatory variables. This approach enables us to estimate contributions made across the whole wage distribution. To allow for a detailed characterisation of labour market conditions, we consider a comprehensive set of socio-economic and labour-related aspects capturing influences of, e.g., human capital quality, cultural background, and the personalities of immigrants. The decomposition results clearly indicate a significant growing gap with higher wages for both foreigners (13.6 to 17.6%) and naturalised immigrants (10.0 to 16.4%). The findings further display a low explanation for the wage gap in low wage deciles that is even more pronounced within immigrant subgroups. Cultural and economic distances each correlate strongly with wages. A different appreciation of foreign educational qualifications, however, widens the wage gap substantially by 4.5%points on average. Moreover, we observe an indication of deterioration of immigrants’ human capital endowments over time relative to those of native Germans.

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The 2015 Refugee Crisis in Germany: Concerns About Immigration and Populism

Cited by 25 publications

References 43 publications

Climate of Hate: Similar Correlates of Far Right Electoral Support and Right-Wing Hate Crimes in Germany

Climate of Hate: Similar Correlates of Far Right Electoral Support and Right-Wing Hate Crimes in Germany

Suffering and Prejudice: Do Negative Emotions Predict Immigration Concerns?

The immigrant-native wage gap in Germany revisited

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