Attitudes towards migrants during crisis times

Marisol Rodriguez Chatruc, Sandra V. Rozo

How are natives attitudes towards migrants shaped by economic crises? Natives could show more compassion towards migrants as everyone faces a common threat. Alternatively, natives prejudice could rise as competition for scarce economic opportunities increases. We conduct an online survey to 3,400 Colombian citizens and randomly prime half of them to think about the economic consequences of COVID-19, before eliciting their altruism and attitudes towards Venezuelan migrants. We find that natives attitudes towards migrants are substantially more negative in the treatment relative to the control group. Individuals ages 18 to 25 years, however, respond to the treatment by showing more altruism.

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Year of publication:	March 2021
Authors:	Rodríguez Chatruc, Marisol ; Rozo, Sandra V.
Publisher:	[Washington, DC] : Inter-American Development Bank, Department of Research and Chief Economist
Subject:	migration \| COVID-19 \| attitudes \| priming \| altruism \| Coronavirus \| Altruismus \| Altruism \| Meinung \| Opinion \| Migranten \| Migrants \| Arbeitsmigranten \| Migrant workers \| Finanzkrise \| Financial crisis

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Extent:	1 Online-Ressource (circa 30 Seiten) Illustrationen
Series:	Working paper. - Washington, DC : IDB, ZDB-ID 2576368-4. - Vol. no IDB-WP-01252
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Type of publication (narrower categories):	Graue Literatur ; Non-commercial literature ; Arbeitspapier ; Working Paper
Language:	English
Other identifiers:	10.18235/0003331 [DOI] hdl:10419/237510 [Handle]
Classification:	D72 - Economic Models of Political Processes: Rent-Seeking, Elections, Legistures, and Voting Behavior ; F2 - International Factor Movements and International Business ; O15 - Human Resources; Income Distribution; Migration ; R23 - Regional Migration; Regional Labor Markets; Population
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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