Discrimination against mobile European Union citizens before and during the first COVID-19 lockdown: Evidence from a conjoint experiment in Germany
Xavier Fernández-i-Marín, Carolin Rapp, Christian Adam, Oliver James & Anita Manatschal
| Résumé |
One of the greatest achievements of the EU is the freedom of
movement between member states offering citizens equal rights in EU
member states. EU enlargement and the COVID-19 pandemic allow for a
critical test of whether EU citizens are indeed treated equally in
practice. We test preferential treatment of EU citizens in two
hypothetical choice experiments in Germany at two different time
points: in the period before and during the COVID-19 pandemic
lockdown. Theories of responses to threat suggest that the COVID-19
crisis should increase discrimination against mobile EU citizens.
While our findings reveal sizeable discrimination based on
nationality and language proficiency of mobile EU citizens, the
findings also suggest that, contrary to expectations,
discrimination did not increase in the initial COVID-19 crisis
period. |
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| Citation | Fernández-i-Marín, X., Rapp, C., Adam, C., James, O., & Manatschal, A. (2021). Discrimination against mobile European Union citizens before and during the first COVID-19 lockdown: Evidence from a conjoint experiment in Germany. European Union Politics, online view, 1-21. |
| Type | Article de périodique (Anglais) |
| Date de publication | 1-10-2021 |
| Nom du périodique | European Union Politics |
| Volume | online view |
| Pages | 1-21 |
| URL | https://doi.org/10.1177/14651165211037208 |
| Liée au projet | Overcoming Bureaucratic Discrimination Against Mobile EU ... |