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Attitudes Towards Migration and Democracy in Times of Intertwined Crises
Titre du projet
Attitudes Towards Migration and Democracy in Times of Intertwined Crises
Description
This project examines attitudes toward migration and democracy in the Global North and South in the context of international crises (e.g., COVID-19, climate change, and the rise of anti-democratic norms). Combining the perspectives of social psychology and political science, we use cross-sectional and longitudinal survey data as well as experiments.
Chercheur principal
Statut
Ongoing
Date de début
1 Juin 2022
Date de fin
31 Mai 2026
Chercheurs
Green, Eva G.T.
Falomir Pichastor, Juan Manuel
Organisations
Identifiant interne
49379
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- PublicationAccès libreErosion or Resilience? Descriptive and Substantive Minority Representation and Majority Group Voters’ Democratic Attitudes(2022-7-14)
; Green, Eva G.T. - PublicationAccès libreAre immigrants allowed to criticize the government? Ingroup identity, economic threat, and majority group support for immigrant civil liberties in the US, Switzerland, and Turkey(2025)
; ; Alexandra FilindraAssaults on immigrants’ civil liberties have been on the rise across Western countries. This study asks whether majority-group natives exhibit less political tolerance (i.e., support for restrictions on civil rights and liberties) toward immigrants who criticize the government compared to citizens, adding thereby a neglected element to the discussion on the conflicted nexus between migration and citizenship. Drawing on social identity theory and theories of economic threat, we find that across three countries (US, Switzerland, and Turkey) immigrant critics are more strongly penalized. However, the size of the penalty is not moderated by ingroup identity salience, but there is evidence in the US that ingroup victimhood—a different measure of ingroup attitudes—does moderate the treatment effect. Moreover, in all three countries, the treatment effect is amplified by economic threat, and in the US and Turkey, but not in Switzerland, we find significant three-way interactions between the treatment, ingroup identity salience, and economic threat, showing that economic threat activates the effect of ingroup salience. Our findings add to the inconclusive existing evidence on the link between identity salience and political intolerance, by showing that only in combination with realistic feelings of threat (economic threat or victimization) will national or white identity amplify political intolerance towards immigrants.