Two Europe(s)? attitudes towards immigrants across eastern and western Europe

Brown, Aaron

Two Europe(s)? attitudes towards immigrants across eastern and western Europe

dc.contributor.advisor	Piotrowski, Martin
dc.contributor.author	Brown, Aaron
dc.contributor.committeeMember	Bass, Loretta
dc.contributor.committeeMember	Carrillo, Ian
dc.date.accessioned	2023-05-09T17:29:08Z
dc.date.available	2023-05-09T17:29:08Z
dc.date.issued	2023-05-12
dc.date.manuscript	2023
dc.description.abstract	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.	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	https://shareok.org/handle/11244/337608
dc.language	en_US	en_US
dc.subject	latent variable	en_US
dc.subject	European Immigration	en_US
dc.subject	Immigration Attitudes	en_US
dc.subject	Eastern Europe	en_US
dc.thesis.degree	Master of Arts	en_US
dc.title	Two Europe(s)? attitudes towards immigrants across eastern and western Europe	en_US
ou.group	Dodge Family College of Arts and Sciences::Department of Sociology	en_US