Attitudes toward asylum policy in a divided Europe
| Autor: | Bart Meuleman, Koen Abts, Arno Van Hootegem |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Sociology |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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economic context
multilevel structural equation modeling media_common.quotation_subject lcsh:HM401-1281 Context (language use) Human values Diversification (marketing strategy) Structural equation modeling policy context 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Sociology Political science Perception European integration 030212 general & internal medicine human values Original Research media_common 030505 public health attitudes toward asylum policy General Social Sciences threat perceptions European Social Survey lcsh:Sociology (General) Political economy Unemployment migratory context 0305 other medical science |
| Zdroj: | Frontiers in Sociology, 5:35 Frontiers in Sociology, Vol 5 (2020) Frontiers in Sociology |
| Popis: | The large inflow of asylum-seekers in recent years has heralded a diversification in adopted asylum policies across European societies. Although a growing body of research has addressed these versatile approaches and their implications for the European integration project, insight into the social basis of these restrictive or open asylum policies remains underdeveloped. Hence, the current study provides detailed insight into public preferences for asylum policies and offers a new understanding of how these attitudes are affected by diverging socio-economic realities across Europe. In addition, this paper considers the role of individual factors that coincide with publicly adopted frames in contemporary asylum debates. In particular, to explain how contextual differences reflect on opinion climates, the impacts of the policy, economic, and migratory context are studied. On the individual-level, we focus on threat perception and human values, which represent humanitarian, economic, and cultural frames. To explore these relations, data on 20 countries from the European Social Survey Round 8 (2016) are analyzed through a multilevel structural equation modeling approach. Results indicate that, on the contextual-level, only unemployment rates have a significant impact and, rather surprisingly, lower unemployment rates provoke a more negative opinion climate. Yet, this relationship seems to be largely driven by some specific countries that are characterized by large unemployment rates and relatively positive opinion climates simultaneously. The migratory and policy context, on the other hand, do not influence attitudes toward asylum policy. This indicates that it is not necessarily the countries facing the largest inflow of asylum-seekers or issuing the most positive decisions on asylum applications that have the most restrictive opinion climates. As shown by the important roles of human values and threat perceptions, which represent widely adopted frames, public discourses seem much more important in explaining attitudes toward asylum policy across Europe. ispartof: Frontiers in Sociology vol:5 pages:1-16 ispartof: location:Switzerland status: published |
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