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- Title
Diversity without Adversity? Ethnic Bias toward Refugees in a Co-Religious Society.
- Authors
Getmansky, Anna; Matakos, Konstantinos; Sinmazdemir, Tolga
- Abstract
What shapes the host population's willingness to accept refugees into social, economic, and political life in their country? We argue that refugees' ethnicity plays a key role—both directly and indirectly—in shaping support for having refugees as neighbors and for granting them a work permit or citizenship. Fielding a conjoint experiment in Turkey (N = 2,362), we find that locals discriminate against Syrian Arab and Kurdish refugees compared to Turkomans. Although a university degree, social ties with locals, and knowledge of language boost prorefugee attitudes, ethnic bias may attenuate their effect. For example, local language knowledge increases support for Arab refugee profiles, but only when it comes to granting them a work permit, but not having them as neighbors or granting citizenship. In contrast, it increases support for profiles of Turkomans and Kurds in all the three domains. Thus, strategies such as learning the local language may not advance all refugees in all domains.
- Subjects
KURDISTAN; TURKEY; REFUGEES; ORGANIZATIONAL citizenship behavior; ETHNICITY; REFUGEE children; LEARNING strategies; LOCAL knowledge; COUNTRY life; ACADEMIC degrees; ENCOURAGEMENT
- Publication
International Studies Quarterly, 2024, Vol 68, Issue 2, p1
- ISSN
0020-8833
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/isq/sqae031