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Who Can Become German?: Xenophobia and Attitudes Towards Naturalization

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  • Claudia Diehl
  • Ingrid Tucci

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Germans are opening up to the topic of immigration: According to the representative data of this report, less and less Germans without a migration background feel threatened by immigration. Also, their attitude towards naturalization has changed. The question "What is the decisive factor for granting German nationality?" is now answered differently than in the 1990s. A significant part of the population without migration background considers ethnic German descent as less important. More and more Germans, however, believe that individual behavior should be the decisive factor for naturalization. In contrast, this doesn't necessarily imply a decline of xenophobia: Persons placing high importance on behavior and cultural adaptation have equally frequent xenophobic tendencies as persons considering ethnicity to be more important. Still, the number of Germans feeling strong hostility towards strangers went down at large.

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  • Claudia Diehl & Ingrid Tucci, 2011. "Who Can Become German?: Xenophobia and Attitudes Towards Naturalization," DIW Economic Bulletin, DIW Berlin, German Institute for Economic Research, vol. 1(3), pages 3-8.
    • Handle: RePEc:diw:diwdeb:2011-3-1
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    1. Chia-Jung Tsai & R. Gordon Rinderknecht & Emilio Zagheni, 2023. "The interplay between refugee inflows and media coverage in determining attitudes towards immigration in Germany," MPIDR Working Papers WP-2023-035, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany.

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    Keywords

    immigration; xenophobia; naturalization;
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    JEL classification:

    • D1 - Microeconomics - - Household Behavior
    • D79 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Other
    • Z0 - Other Special Topics - - General

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