The Power of Citizenship: How Immigrant Incorporation Affects Attitudes towards Social Benefits

Kolbe, Melanie; Crepaz, Markus M. L.

doi:10.5129/001041516819582937

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“…We agree with Kolbe and Crepaz (2016) that naturalization leads to increasing support for welfare state restrictiveness. However, we argue that self-interest could also be one of the mechanisms driving support for welfare state access, and self-interest operates not only through naturalization, but also in several other ways.…”

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“…The authors furthermore argue that by becoming a citizen, immigrants change their collective identities and approximate the attitudes of the host society. Kolbe and Crepaz (2016) find support for these expectations in a cross-country analysis of ESS survey data.…”

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confidence: 65%

“…One notable exception is the study by Kolbe and Crepaz (2016) that analyses the impact of acquiring citizenship in the country of destination on immigrants' attitudes towards welfare state restrictiveness. Kolbe and Crepaz (2016) argue that through legally joining the new country as a citizen, immigrants will be more concerned about the well-being of the country. This is supposed to be the case since citizenship gives immigrants access to opportunities, rights and resources.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Granting immigrants access to social benefits? How self-interest influences support for welfare state restrictiveness

Degen

Kuhn²,

Brug

2018

Journal of European Social Policy

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In the context of large-scale migration within and into Europe, the question of whether and under which conditions immigrants should be granted access to social benefits in the country of destination is of high political relevance. A large body of research has studied natives' attitudes towards giving immigrants access to the welfare state, while research on attitudes of immigrants themselves is scarce. Focusing on the impact of self-interest, we compare immigrants and native citizens in their attitudes towards granting immigrants access to the welfare state. We identify three mechanisms through which self-interest can influence these attitudes: immigrant origin, socioeconomic status and-for first-generation immigrants only-incorporation into the host society. We test our expectations using cross-national data from the European Social Survey round 2008. The findings suggest that self-interest is indeed one of the factors that motivate attitudes towards welfare state restrictiveness among natives and immigrants, but also point at relevant exceptions to this pattern.

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Section: Theoretical Frameworksupporting

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Section: Theoretical Frameworkmentioning

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Section: Theoretical Frameworkmentioning

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Granting immigrants access to social benefits? How self-interest influences support for welfare state restrictiveness

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Kuhn²,

Brug

2018

Journal of European Social Policy

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“…Kinship and solidarity probably also explain the lack of differences between citizens of foreign descent and immigrants in willingness to grant rights to immigrants. Respondents with an immigrant background may have had themselves or their relatives in mind as a reference point when answering to the question about rights (see however Kolbe & Crepaz, 2016). This was less likely the case when considering newcomers in Switzerland.…”

Section: Threat Perceptions Explain Differences In Prejudicementioning

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“…Among the foreign born, those possessing national citizenship expressed more exclusive views than immigrants. Also using ESS data, Kolbe and Crepaz (2016) found that foreign-born, naturalized citizens were less willing than immigrants to grant immigrants access to social benefits. In the same vein, Valentová and Berzosa (2012) revealed that, in Luxembourg, natives expressed the most negative attitudes toward established immigrants followed by second-generation and then firstgeneration immigrants.…”

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Competition- and Identity-based Roots of Anti-immigration Prejudice among Individuals with and without an Immigrant Background

Sarrasin¹,

Green²,

Bolzman³

et al. 2018

International Review of Social Psychology

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Most social psychological research on anti-immigration prejudice has examined the point of view of the national ingroup-generally defined as the citizens of the country under consideration-toward immigrant outgroups. Threat perceptions related to immigration as well as national identification have been shown to underlie negative attitudes. Whether these two factors also explain attitudes among individuals sharing characteristics with the immigrants remains largely unstudied. To fill this gap, the present research examines perceived threat, national identification, and different facets of anti-immigration prejudice among Swiss residents with and without an immigrant background. Results of a path model conducted on data from the International Social Survey Programme 2013 (N = 1,198) showed that, as expected, natives reported higher levels of prejudice than both citizens of foreign descent and immigrants. While group differences in prejudice were in part explained by differences in threat perceptions, the role of national identification was more nuanced. Altogether, these findings suggest that social psychological research should go beyond simplistic "national ingroup vs. immigrant outgroup" conceptualisations when examining anti-immigration prejudice.

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Racism in and for the Welfare State

Perocco

2022

Marx, Engels, and Marxisms

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The Power of Citizenship: How Immigrant Incorporation Affects Attitudes towards Social Benefits

Cited by 26 publications

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Granting immigrants access to social benefits? How self-interest influences support for welfare state restrictiveness

Granting immigrants access to social benefits? How self-interest influences support for welfare state restrictiveness

Competition- and Identity-based Roots of Anti-immigration Prejudice among Individuals with and without an Immigrant Background

Racism in and for the Welfare State

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