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Nussio, Enzo, Bove, Vincenzo and Steele, Bridget (2019) The consequences of terrorism on migration attitudes across Europe. Political Geography, 75 . 102047. doi:10.1016/j.polgeo.2019.102047 ISSN 0962-6298.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2019.102047
Abstract
How do terrorist attacks influence migration attitudes? We argue that the influence of attacks depends on the location of whoever receives the terrorist news, and derive two hypotheses from this logic of spatial conditionality. First, if terror attacks affect citizens’ views of migration through sensations of imminent danger and fear, then proximity to the terrorist attack would be the main conditioning factor. Second, rather than distance to attack, the local migration context of the news receiver might condition the effect. In homogenous societies with little immigration experience, citizens may be more receptive to discourses linking migration to terrorism and thus more susceptible to negative attitude change. We evaluate the observable implications of these claims with the 2015 Bataclan attack using data from a Eurobarometer survey. This data was collected right before and after the attack which allows for a quasi-experimental research design. In line with the migration context hypothesis, we find more negative attitudes toward migrants and refugees particularly in countries with relatively homogenous societies and few immigrants. No evidence was found to support the proximity to attack hypothesis. These results have important implications as the public discourse of a migration-terrorism nexus has shaped the policy debate in Europe.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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Subjects: | D History General and Old World > D History (General) > D901 Europe (General) H Social Sciences > HV Social pathology. Social and public welfare J Political Science > JV Colonies and colonization. Emigration and immigration. International migration |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Politics and International Studies | ||||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Terrorism -- Social aspects -- Europe, Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects , Europe -- Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects, Immigrants -- Social aspects | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Political Geography | ||||||||
Publisher: | Elsevier Science Inc. | ||||||||
ISSN: | 0962-6298 | ||||||||
Official Date: | November 2019 | ||||||||
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Volume: | 75 | ||||||||
Article Number: | 102047 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.1016/j.polgeo.2019.102047 | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 22 July 2019 | ||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 17 July 2021 | ||||||||
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