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Romanians’ current perception of threat from immigrants in a context of co-ethnic migration: assessing the role of intergroup conflict and active/passive contact
Ionela VlaseAna Maria Preoteasasubject
Historymedia_common.quotation_subject05 social sciencesGroup conflictImmigration0507 social and economic geographyEthnic groupIdentity (social science)Context (language use)0506 political scienceNationalismPolitical Science and International Relations050602 political science & public administrationCosmopolitanismSociologyConflict theories050703 geographySocial psychologymedia_commondescription
AbstractThis paper investigates the predictors of natives’ perception of the immigrant threat in Romania, an interesting site given immigrants’ marginal presence in the total population and the sizeable proportion of co-ethnic immigrants. Yet the interplay between nationalism and religion shapes an ideological frame that favours unwelcoming attitudes towards immigrants that challenge the Romanian identity forged along ethnic and religious ties. The authors used regression to analyse immigrant threat according to several dimensions: cosmopolitanism, group conflict and intergroup contact. In order to reflect specificities of this particular context, the latter dimension is conceptualized so as to include active and passive contact with immigrants. This distinction is relevant because of immigrants’ low presence in Romania. Findings suggest that variables from conflict theory explain more of the variation in the perceived threat, while indirect contact through mass-media exposure to immigrant content has the...
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-07-03 | Southeast European and Black Sea Studies |