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Are Natives Collar-Blind? Migration Flows and Attitudes Toward Immigration

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  • Lenka Dražanová

    (EUI - European University Institute - Institut Universitaire Européen)

  • Jérôme Gonnot

    (ESPOL-LAB - ESPOL-LAB - ESPOL - European School of Political and Social Sciences / École Européenne de Sciences Politiques et Sociales - ICL - Institut Catholique de Lille - UCL - Université catholique de Lille, LEM - Lille économie management - UMR 9221 - UA - Université d'Artois - UCL - Université catholique de Lille - ULCO - Université du Littoral Côte d'Opale - Université de Lille - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)

Abstract

This article investigates how regional-level immigration of different origins and educational backgrounds predicts individual policy preferences across Western European countries between 2010 and 2020. Combining data from the European Social Survey and the European Union Labour Force Survey, we examine how changes in net migration affect support for restrictive immigration policies. We find that short-term increases in non-European immigration within a given region are associated with more restrictive migration policy views among natives, regardless of immigrants' education levels. Attitudes toward immigration are also relatively more negatively affected among natives with financial difficulties when immigrants are not tertiary educated, but not when those immigrants have a tertiary education. Our findings suggest that while origin-based heuristics dominate public responses to immigration, natives are not entirely blind to immigrants' educational attainment.

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  • Lenka Dražanová & Jérôme Gonnot, 2025. "Are Natives Collar-Blind? Migration Flows and Attitudes Toward Immigration," Post-Print hal-05427893, HAL.
    • Handle: RePEc:hal:journl:hal-05427893
    DOI: 10.1093/ijpor/edaf063
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