Considering recent immigration trends as well as crises of war which have displaced large numbers of people and led to high rates of migration into and within Europe, understanding how anti-immigrant sentiments develop and how this varies across regions of Europe has become increasingly relevant. This present study examines the differing attitudes towards immigrants between eastern European, post-Soviet, countries and western European countries. Using data from the first nine waves of the European Social Survey (2002 – 2018), which is comprised of a representative sample of the population of Europe, across over 30 countries, I use six questions from the survey asking respondents about their views on specific aspects of immigration to create a scale of general attitudes towards immigrants. I create this scale of a general, latent concept of immigrant attitudes by using a structural equation modeling approach known as Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA). With this measurement of immigrant attitudes, I use a MIMIC (Multiple Indicators, Multiple Causes) model to represent the relationship of variables that develop a person’s underlying attitude towards immigrants. Preliminary results point to the existence of two separate concepts of immigration between the east and the west. As both regions have developed differences, this has led to different understandings of immigration and questions about immigrants. These findings present implications for how immigration is understood differently across various regions, as well as socio-political implications.