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The trade-off between admitting and paying: Experimental evidence on attitudes towards asylum responsibility-sharing

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  • Cornelius Wright Cappelen

    (Department of Comparative Politics, 1658University of Bergen, Norway)

  • Hakan G. Sicakkan

    (Department of Comparative Politics, 1658University of Bergen, Norway)

  • Pierre Georges Van Wolleghem

    (Department of Comparative Politics, 1658University of Bergen, Norway)

Abstract

The concentration of the world's refugees in developing countries calls for international collaboration on the matter. In the face of concerns voiced not only amongst politicians but also the public, we investigate how people trade-off the two most prominent responsibility-sharing mechanism. We conduct a survey experiment in 26 countries asking whether people would rather: (a) admit more asylum seekers and (b) provide financial assistance to the host countries. We find that most respondents prefer admitting asylum seekers over paying. We also establish significant individual-level heterogeneity that sheds new light on people's attitudes towards asylum seekers. Importantly, we report on the effect of welfare chauvinism and nativism on the willingness to admit rather than to pay.

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  • Cornelius Wright Cappelen & Hakan G. Sicakkan & Pierre Georges Van Wolleghem, 2023. "The trade-off between admitting and paying: Experimental evidence on attitudes towards asylum responsibility-sharing," European Union Politics, , vol. 24(3), pages 470-493, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:eeupol:v:24:y:2023:i:3:p:470-493
    DOI: 10.1177/14651165231156525
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