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Conflicting identities : cosmopolitan or anxious? : appreciating concerns of host country population improves attitudes towards immigrants
Heidland, Tobias; Wichardt, Philipp C. - 2016
Cosmopolitan or anxious? In order to test the influence of conflicting aspects of identity, German respondents were asked about their attitude towards a Syrian refugee the description of whom was varied in various domains (N=662). Once the refugee is described as being aware of as well as open...
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What Institutions Help Immigrants Integrate?
Huber, Peter - 2015
, only important in selecting migrants with high employment probabilities and migration policy variables remain unimportant …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013028137
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Why do states extend rights to immigrants? : institutional settings and historical legacies across 44 countries worldwide
Koopmans, Ruud; Michalowski, Ines - 2017
In this article, we first test theories on immigrant rights across 29 countries from Europe, Africa, the Middle East, East Asia, Oceania, and the Americas, using our Indicators of Citizenship Rights for Immigrants (ICRI) data set. We focus on trajectories of nationhood and current institutional...
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Democratic involvement and immigrants' compliance with the law
Slotwinski, Michaela; Stutzer, Alois; Gorinas, Cédric - 2017
Many people are concerned about societal cohesion in the face of higher numbers of foreigners migrating to Western democracies. The challenge for the future is to find and adopt institutions that foster integration. We investigate how the right to vote in local elections affects immigrants'...
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Geography and assimilation : a case study of Irish immigrants in late nineteenth century America
Cirenza, Peter - 2015
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010519833
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Divided we stand : immigration attitudes, identity, and subjective well-being
Welsch, Heinz; Kühling, Jan - 2017
Immigration is a crucial issue in contemporary politics, and attitudes towards immigration are highly dispersed in many … countries. We treat individuals' immigration friendliness (IF) as a feature of their self-image or identity and hypothesize that …, similar to other pro-social self-images, greater immigration friendliness is associated with greater subjective well …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011724593
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Conflicting identities: cosmopolitan or anxious? : appreciating concerns of host country population improves attitudes towards immigrants
Heidland, Tobias; Wichardt, Philipp C. - 2019
This paper connects insights from the literature on cosmopolitan values in political science, anxiety in social psychology, and identity economics in a vignette-style experiment. We asked German respondents about their attitudes towards a Syrian refugee, randomizing components of his description...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012118674
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More than meets the eye : the role of immigration background for social identity effects
Dwertmann, David J. G.; Kunze, Florian - In: Journal of management 47 (2021) 8, pp. 2074-2104
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Please call me John : name choice and the assimilation of immigrants in the United States, 1900 - 1930
Carneiro, Pedro; Lee, Sokbae; Reis, Hugo - 2015
The vast majority of immigrants to the United States at the beginning of the 20th century adopted first names that were common among natives. The rate of adoption of an American name increases with time in the US, although most immigrants adopt an American name within the first year of arrival....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011283642
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Please call me John : name choice and the assimilation of immigrants in the United States, 1900-1930
Carneiro, Pedro; Lee, Sokbae; Reis, Hugo - 2016
The vast majority of immigrants to the United States at the beginning of the 20th century adopted first names that were common among natives. The rate of adoption of an American name increases with time in the US, although most immigrants adopt an American name within the first year of arrival....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011454305