Who Deserves Citizenship? An Experimental Study of Japanese Attitudes Toward Immigrant Workers

Kobayashi, Tetsuro; Collet, Christian; Iyengar, Shanto; Hahn, Kyu S.

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“…For instance, Iyengar et al ( 2013 ) demonstrated that citizens in seven advanced industrialized democracies generally oppose more open immigration policies, but stand ready to admit individual immigrants (i.e., person positivity bias). Similarly, with a specific focus on Japan, Kobayashi et al ( 2015 ) found that Korean immigrant workers are, ceteris paribus , viewed more favorably than workers from China and that affluent Japanese evaluate lower status applicants more negatively. However, the impact of satisficing needs to be more carefully examined in this specific context.…”

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“…Against this backdrop, researchers using online experiments have produced noteworthy findings regarding attitudes toward immigrants (Iyengar et al, 2013 ; Hainmueller and Hopkins, 2015 ; Kobayashi et al, 2015 ). For instance, Iyengar et al ( 2013 ) demonstrated that citizens in seven advanced industrialized democracies generally oppose more open immigration policies, but stand ready to admit individual immigrants (i.e., person positivity bias).…”

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Survey Satisficing Inflates Stereotypical Responses in Online Experiment: The Case of Immigration Study

Miura

Kobayashi

2016

Front. Psychol.

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Though survey satisficing, grudging cognitive efforts required to provide optimal answers in the survey response process, poses a serious threat to the validity of online experiments, a detailed explanation of the mechanism has yet to be established. Focusing on attitudes toward immigrants, we examined the mechanism by which survey satisficing distorts treatment effect estimates in online experiments. We hypothesized that satisficers would display more stereotypical responses than non-satisficers would when presented with stereotype-disconfirming information about an immigrant. Results of two experiments largely supported our hypotheses. Satisficers, whom we identified through an instructional manipulation check (IMC), processed information about immigrants' personality traits congruently with the stereotype activated by information provided about nationality. The significantly shorter vignette reading time of satisficers corroborates their time-efficient impression formation based on stereotyping. However, the shallow information processing of satisficers can be rectified by alerting them to their inattentiveness through use of a repeated IMC.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Survey Satisficing Inflates Stereotypical Responses in Online Experiment: The Case of Immigration Study

Miura

Kobayashi

2016

Front. Psychol.

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“…While Japan has thus developed an interest in employing international students, a number of challenges remain, ranging from a mismatch in qualifications to international students' lack of understanding of the recruitment processes. With Japanese companies focussing their recruitment on fresh university graduates, they have established a highly organized system that asks applicants to adhere to certain formal procedures and a rigid application time schedule, as well as to possess high levels of Japanese language skills and to understand Japanese industries and workplaces (Liu-Farrer, 2009;KS 2015;Conrad and Meyer-Ohle, 2018).…”

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Transnationalization of a Recruitment Regime: Skilled Migration to Japan

Conrad

Meyer‐Ohle

2018

International Migration

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Japan, facing a demographic decline and challenges by companies and universities to internationalize, has opened its doors to skilled migration. Focussing initially on a two‐step student migration model, Japanese companies are now recruiting young graduates from overseas universities, mainly in Asia. We argue that, with the help of brokers, the domestic recruitment regime (a set of particular employment practices) has been transnationalized. Based on interviews with stakeholders and discussing international recruitment fairs as the site of engagement, we present first evidence that the activities of brokers have the potential to change attitudes towards employability among overseas universities and their students. We also find that this development compromises the original diversity objectives of Japanese employers and point to a lack of rules of engagement for brokers operating across national borders.

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“…8 There are numerous studies examining similar security and cultural concerns among natives toward immigrants (see, for example, Bove and Böhmelt, 2016;Burns and Gimpel, 2000;Fetzer, 2000;Kobayashi et al, 2015;Newman, Hartman and Taber, 2012;Sniderman, Hagendoorn and Prior, 2004).…”

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Public Opposition Refugee Resettlement: The Case of Japan

Horiuchi

Ono

2018

SSRN Journal

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Ferwerda, Flynn and Horiuchi (2017) showed a not-in-my-backyard (NIMBY) attitude toward refugee resettlement among Americans and their responsiveness to threatening media frames. Our study extends their experimental study with a focus on Japan. We conceptualize two types of NIMBY-ism with regard to refugee resettlement within-country and between-country NIMBY-ism and manipulate the proximity to a threat in media frames. The findings suggest that Japanese people are not only prone to free-ride other countries' efforts to address the global refugee crisis, exhibiting a larger sentiment of between-country NIMBY-ism, but also susceptible to threatening frames regardless of whether a threat is directly relevant to Japan. While conscious interactions with foreigners make them less susceptible to those frames, such interactions are rare for most Japanese. These results imply a continued challenge for Japan to accept more refugees, at least in the short term.

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Who Deserves Citizenship? An Experimental Study of Japanese Attitudes Toward Immigrant Workers

Cited by 19 publications

References 47 publications

Survey Satisficing Inflates Stereotypical Responses in Online Experiment: The Case of Immigration Study

Survey Satisficing Inflates Stereotypical Responses in Online Experiment: The Case of Immigration Study

Transnationalization of a Recruitment Regime: Skilled Migration to Japan

Public Opposition Refugee Resettlement: The Case of Japan

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