Individual values, cultural embeddedness, and anti-immigration sentiments: Explaining differences in the effect of values on attitudes toward immigration across Europe
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Individual values, cultural embeddedness, and anti-immigration sentiments: Explaining di erences in the e ect of values on attitudes toward immigration across Europe
During the last decade, many European countries have faced sizeable immigration inflows accompanied by high prevalence of negative sentiments toward immigrants among majority members of the host societies. We propose that basic human values are one important determinant of such negative attitudes, and we seek to explain variation across countries in the strength of the effects of values. Based ...
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عنوان ژورنال: KZfSS Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie
سال: 2014
ISSN: 0023-2653,1861-891X
DOI: 10.1007/s11577-014-0274-5