Outsiders not Worth Trusting? Accounting for Concerns over Immigration in Central and Eastern Europe
This study uses European Values Study 2017 data to identify key correlates of economic and cultural concerns over immigration in Central and Eastern Europe against the backdrop of the 2015 refugee crisis. It does so by running fixed-effects regression models covering 10 CEE countries and testing the...
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Centre of Migration Research, University of Warsaw, and Polish Academy of Sciences
2024-12-01
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| description | This study uses European Values Study 2017 data to identify key correlates of economic and cultural concerns over immigration in Central and Eastern Europe against the backdrop of the 2015 refugee crisis. It does so by running fixed-effects regression models covering 10 CEE countries and testing the associations between core cultural identities and basic values on the one hand and concerns over immigration on the other. It was found that low trust in people of another nationality and – to a lesser degree – low generalised social trust were associated with both economic and cultural concerns over immigration in CEE. Also, CEE residents subscribing to both voluntarist and ascriptive nationhood criteria were more likely to be concerned about economic and cultural aspects of immigration than those having a purely voluntarist conception of nationhood. It was also found that the association between national pride and economic concerns over immigration is stronger in Visegrád countries. Meanwhile, the study did not generate evidence that immigration attitudes in CEE were related to the strength of national identification, religious affiliation, cosmopolitan identity, Universalism or perceived state vulnerability. The article maintains that immigration attitudes in CEE are deeply embedded in societal value systems that are, in turn, shaped by distinctive historical legacies. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-cb8bbabdb60d41b79a6972853acfcac72025-08-20T02:20:48ZengCentre of Migration Research, University of Warsaw, and Polish Academy of SciencesCentral and Eastern European Migration Review2300-16822024-12-01132275410.54667/ceemr.2024.19Outsiders not Worth Trusting? Accounting for Concerns over Immigration in Central and Eastern Europe Vainius Bartasevičius0https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5112-6816Institute of International Relations and Political Science, Vilnius University, Vilnius, LithuaniaThis study uses European Values Study 2017 data to identify key correlates of economic and cultural concerns over immigration in Central and Eastern Europe against the backdrop of the 2015 refugee crisis. It does so by running fixed-effects regression models covering 10 CEE countries and testing the associations between core cultural identities and basic values on the one hand and concerns over immigration on the other. It was found that low trust in people of another nationality and – to a lesser degree – low generalised social trust were associated with both economic and cultural concerns over immigration in CEE. Also, CEE residents subscribing to both voluntarist and ascriptive nationhood criteria were more likely to be concerned about economic and cultural aspects of immigration than those having a purely voluntarist conception of nationhood. It was also found that the association between national pride and economic concerns over immigration is stronger in Visegrád countries. Meanwhile, the study did not generate evidence that immigration attitudes in CEE were related to the strength of national identification, religious affiliation, cosmopolitan identity, Universalism or perceived state vulnerability. The article maintains that immigration attitudes in CEE are deeply embedded in societal value systems that are, in turn, shaped by distinctive historical legacies.http://ceemr.uw.edu.pl/vol-13-no-2-2024/articles/outsiders-not-worth-trusting-accounting-concerns-over-immigration-centralimmigration attitudescentral and eastern europenational identitysocial trust |
| spellingShingle | Vainius Bartasevičius Outsiders not Worth Trusting? Accounting for Concerns over Immigration in Central and Eastern Europe Central and Eastern European Migration Review immigration attitudes central and eastern europe national identity social trust |
| title | Outsiders not Worth Trusting? Accounting for Concerns over Immigration in Central and Eastern Europe |
| title_full | Outsiders not Worth Trusting? Accounting for Concerns over Immigration in Central and Eastern Europe |
| title_fullStr | Outsiders not Worth Trusting? Accounting for Concerns over Immigration in Central and Eastern Europe |
| title_full_unstemmed | Outsiders not Worth Trusting? Accounting for Concerns over Immigration in Central and Eastern Europe |
| title_short | Outsiders not Worth Trusting? Accounting for Concerns over Immigration in Central and Eastern Europe |
| title_sort | outsiders not worth trusting accounting for concerns over immigration in central and eastern europe |
| topic | immigration attitudes central and eastern europe national identity social trust |
| url | http://ceemr.uw.edu.pl/vol-13-no-2-2024/articles/outsiders-not-worth-trusting-accounting-concerns-over-immigration-central |
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