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- Title
Does In-Group Consolidation Polarize Attitudes Toward Immigrants?
- Authors
Leino, Mikko; Ylisalo, Juha
- Abstract
Scholars have identified a host of individual-level and contextual factors associated with variation in people's attitudes toward immigrants. In this article, we argue that individual traits that are conducive to a positive or negative attitude toward immigrants tend to be more strongly connected to attitudes the larger the share of people with similar traits in the individual's immediate living environment. This is because interacting with like-minded people is likely to strengthen one's pre-existing views. We test this reasoning using data on more than 3000 individuals nested within more than 100 neighborhoods in the city of Turku, Finland. We find that the attitudes of young adults tend to be more positive the more people with characteristics predicting a positive attitude there are in their neighborhood, while their attitudes tend to be more negative the more people there are with a low level of education, a strong predictor of negative attitudes.
- Subjects
FINLAND; PUBLIC opinion on immigrants; POLARIZATION (Social sciences); SOCIAL groups; EMIGRATION &; immigration; HOUSING discrimination
- Publication
Political Studies, 2022, Vol 70, Issue 4, p1028
- ISSN
0032-3217
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/0032321721998929