16:50 - 18:30
P5-S114
Room: 0A.03
Chair/s:
Sergi Pardos-Prado
Discussant/s:
Nejla Asimovic
European Integration, Identity, and Attitudes Towards Immigrants in the EU
P5-S114-3
Presented by: Buket Buse Demirci
Buket Buse Demirci
ETH Zurich
How does the immigration background of individuals affect their perceptions of other immigrants? How does polity formation impact groups when they are included in the emerging polity to different degrees? To what extent do the different rights afforded to internal immigrants signal that non-EU immigrants are outsiders, thus resulting in differences in the attitudes of and towards these immigrant groups? Through a conjoint survey with c. 4900 respondents in Germany, I examine how the native population and different types of immigrants evaluate the integration potential of immigrants, their benefit to the host country, and their social standing. I vary a broad range of immigrant characteristics, such as age, gender, religion, level of education, and main occupation; and oversample respondents with an immigration background. The preliminary results indicate that once economic and demographic traits of migrants are accounted for, their country of origin plays a secondary role. Moreover, internal immigrants seem to hold more similar attitudes to natives compared to external immigrants.
Keywords: Migration attitudes, Immigrants, Germany, Europe, Public opinion

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