Friend or Foe? Attitudes Towards Immigration from Other European Union Countries

Over the decades Europe has become a destination for different groups of migrants, including mobile citizens from the European Union Member States. At the same time European citizens have become more mobile with a growing number of cross-border practices connecting them to places and people abroad t...

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Main Author: Justyna Salamońska
Format: Article
Language:deu
Published: Firenze University Press 2016-05-01
Series:SocietàMutamentoPolitica: Rivista Italiana di Sociologia
Online Access:https://oajournals.fupress.net/index.php/smp/article/view/10466
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description Over the decades Europe has become a destination for different groups of migrants, including mobile citizens from the European Union Member States. At the same time European citizens have become more mobile with a growing number of cross-border practices connecting them to places and people abroad through migration, travel, social networks or consumption practices. The main contribution of this study is in analysing to what extent processes of Europeanization, at an individual and country level, matter for sentiments towards immigration. Data suggest that social globalization processes may produce a sense of threat, but individual transnationalism seems to provide a remedy against prejudice.
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