Aufsatz(elektronisch)15. März 2017

Does personal contact with ethnic minorities affect anti‐immigrant sentiments? Evidence from a field experiment

In: European journal of political research: official journal of the European Consortium for Political Research, Band 56, Heft 3, S. 703-722

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Abstract

AbstractThis article explores the causal effect of personal contact with ethnic minorities on majority members' views on immigration, immigrants' work ethics, and support for lower social assistance benefits to immigrants than to natives. Exogenous variation in personal contact is obtained by randomising soldiers into different rooms during the basic training period for conscripts in the Norwegian Army's North Brigade. Based on contact theory of majority–minority relations, the study spells out why the army can be regarded as an ideal contextual setting for exposure to reduce negative views on minorities. The study finds a substantive effect of contact on views on immigrants' work ethics, but small and insignificant effects on support for welfare dualism, as well as on views on whether immigration makes Norway a better place in which to live.

Sprachen

Englisch

Verlag

Wiley

ISSN: 1475-6765

DOI

10.1111/1475-6765.12199

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