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European attitudes to refugees after the Russian invasion of Ukraine
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West European politics, 2023, Vol. 47, No. 2, pp. 356-381
[Migration Policy Centre]
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MOISE, Alexandru Daniel, DENNISON, James, KRIESI, Hanspeter, European attitudes to refugees after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, West European politics, 2023, Vol. 47, No. 2, pp. 356-381, [Migration Policy Centre] - https://hdl.handle.net/1814/76025
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Why do attitudes to refugees vary? An original panel is used in five EU states – France, Germany, Hungary, Italy and Poland – to explain European attitudes towards three groups of refugees following the 2022 invasion of Ukraine. It is shown that European attitudes to Ukrainian refugees are determined by predispositions to immigration and perceptions of the war and actors involved, with European identity and contact with refugees being relatively unimportant. These findings are validated with dynamic panel models and attitudes towards the Temporary Protection Directive. A ‘spill-over’ effect is further demonstrated, whereby attitudes to Ukrainian refugees positively affect attitudes to Afghan and Somali refugees, and a declining ‘rally-around-the-flag’ effect over time. These findings contribute to the literature on attitudinal formation, showing the relative malleability of attitudes to refugees as a function of their embeddedness in broader attitudinal patterns (particularly to immigration and geopolitics), changing context (the different stages of the war), and spill-over from views towards other refugee groups.
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Published online: 13 July 2023