CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2020
| Author | Tomka, Zsofia Borbala |
|---|---|
| Title | Socioeconomic Determinants of Anti-Immigration Sentiments in Europe: Temporal and Regional Dynamics, 2002-2018 |
| Summary | Previous studies on social status and anti-immigration attitudes have neglected Southern and Eastern Europe and did not focus on comparative research or longitudinal analysis. Therefore, in this thesis I examine the differing effect of socioeconomic status on anti-immigrant attitudes in Europe and how these effects have changed over time. Based on social dominance, group threat and group contact theory as well as literature on cultural and economic threat, I hypothesize that 1. socioeconomic status indicators have a higher effect on anti-immigrant prejudice in Northwestern than in Eastern and Southern Europe, as well as that the effect of socioeconomic position on anti-immigrant attitudes 2. increased after the Great Recession in 2008 and 3. decreased after the migration crisis in 2015. By constructing regression models based on data from five rounds of the European Social Survey between 2002 and 2018, I find that all tendencies can be observed, with the exception of the declining relevance of socioeconomic status following the migration crisis in CEE and SE. Further research on the topic could look at the ‘ideal types’ of the trends described or study the outliers. |
| Supervisor | Váradi, Luca |
| Department | Nationalism Studies MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2020/tomka_zsofia-borbala.pdf |
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