Which individual-level factors explain public attitudes toward immigration? : a meta-analysis

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dc.contributor.authorDRAŽANOVÁ, Lenka
dc.contributor.authorGONNOT, Jerome
dc.contributor.authorHEIDLAND, Tobias
dc.contributor.authorFINJA, Krüger
dc.date.accessioned2023-10-19T13:55:15Z
dc.date.available2023-10-19T13:55:15Z
dc.date.issued2024
dc.descriptionPublished online: 05 October 2023en
dc.description.abstractPublic attitudes toward immigration have attracted much scholarly interest and extensive empirical research in recent years. Despite a sizeable theoretical and empirical literature, no firm conclusions have been drawn regarding the factors affecting immigration opinion. We address this gap through a formal meta-analysis derived from the literature regarding immigration attitudes from the top journals of several social science disciplines in the years 2009–2019 and based on a population of 1185 estimates derived from 144 unique analyses on individual-level factors affecting attitudes to immigration. The meta-analytical findings show that two individual-level characteristics are most significantly associated with attitudes to immigration - education (positively) and age (negatively). Our results further reveal that the same individual characteristics do not necessarily explain immigration policy attitudes and attitudes toward immigrants’ contribution. The findings challenge several conventional micro-level theories of attitudes to immigration. The meta-analysis can inform future research when planning the set of explanatory variables to avoid omitting key determinants.en
dc.description.sponsorshipThis project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 882986.en
dc.identifier.citationJournal of ethnic and migration studies, 2024, Vol. 50, No. 2, pp. 317-340en
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/1369183X.2023.2265576
dc.identifier.endpage340
dc.identifier.issn1369-183X
dc.identifier.issn1469-9451
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dc.identifier.startpage317
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1814/75964
dc.identifier.volume50
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dc.publisherRoutledgeen
dc.relationIT tools and methods for managing migration FLOWS
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dc.relation.ispartofseries[Migration Policy Centre]en
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dc.titleWhich individual-level factors explain public attitudes toward immigration? : a meta-analysisen
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