IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/p/irs/cepswp/2024-08.html
   My bibliography  Save this paper

Attitudes towards Immigration in a Highly Multicultural Society: The Roles of Foreign Background and Local Exposure

Author

Listed:
  • Frédéric Docquier
  • Ariane Gordan
  • Michel Tenikue
  • Aleksa Uljarevic

Abstract

We study the factors that shape attitudes toward immigration in Luxembourg, a wealthy country with a long history of immigration, where 74\% of the population has a foreign background. Overall, a large majority of respondents acknowledge that immigration enriches national identity and has a positive impact on the economy. These attitudes are shaped by characteristics such as age, education and foreign background. Pro-immigration attitudes are stronger among second-generation immigrants and even more pronounced among first-generation immigrants from Portugal, neighboring and non-European countries. In addition, we find that the total share of immigrants in the immediate neighborhood does not significantly influence attitudes towards the economic and identitarian implications of immigration. However, local exposure to immigration influences natives' perceptions of the optimal level of immigration. We provide suggestive evidence that the latter effect is largely driven by recent inflows of non-European immigrants, indicating that acceptance of diversity and multiculturalism might take time.

Suggested Citation

  • Frédéric Docquier & Ariane Gordan & Michel Tenikue & Aleksa Uljarevic, 2024. "Attitudes towards Immigration in a Highly Multicultural Society: The Roles of Foreign Background and Local Exposure," LISER Working Paper Series 2024-08, Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER).
    • Handle: RePEc:irs:cepswp:2024-08
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://liser.elsevierpure.com/fr/publications/attitudes-towards-immigration-in-a-highly-multicultural-society-t
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    More about this item

    Keywords

    Immigration; Attitudes; Well-being; Neighborhood;
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • J15 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of Minorities, Races, Indigenous Peoples, and Immigrants; Non-labor Discrimination

    NEP fields

    This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:irs:cepswp:2024-08. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Library and Documentation (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/cepsslu.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.