Research on attitudes towards immigrants devotes much attention to the relative effects of
economic and social-psychological factors for understanding sentiment towards immigrants …

This paper shows that cultural and material threats exist side by side, serving different
psychological functions, and that they manifest in differential attitudes towards immigrants …

As populist radical right parties muster increasing support in many democracies, an
important question is how mainstream parties can recapture their voters. Focusing on …

The present study proposes a new threat–benefit theoretical model explaining attitudes of
local people toward immigrants. Based on the theory of human values and extending …

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, more than 3 million people with German ancestors
immigrated to Germany under a special law granting immediate citizenship. Despite their …

SUZANNE HALL is a Researcher at LSE Cities in the Department of Sociology at the
London School of Economics and Social Science. ADDRESS: LSE Cities, Houghton Street …

We study ethnic discrimination in the sharing economy using the example of online
carpooling marketplaces. Based on a unique data set of 16,624 real rides from Germany, we …

Targeting immigrants as a threat to employment, security and cultural cohesion, the radical
right has averaged 10 percent of the vote in elections. What drives this vote? Are voters …

We study how news coverage of immigrant criminality impacts voting in one of the most
controversial referendums in recent years—the 2009 Swiss minaret ban. We combine a …

Across Western democracies, immigration has become one of the most polarizing and
salient issues, with public discourses and individual attitudes often characterized by …