Romanians’ current perception of threat from immigrants in a context of co-ethnic migration: assessing the role of intergroup conflict and active/passive contact.

This paper investigates the predictors of natives’ perception of the immigrant threat in Romania, an interesting site given immigrants’ marginal presence in the total population and the sizeable proportion of co-ethnic immigrants. Yet the interplay between nationalism and religion shapes an ideologi...

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Publicado en:Journal of Southeast European & Black Sea Studies Vol. 17; no. 3; pp. 421 - 440
Autores principales: Vlase, Ionela, Preoteasa, Ana Maria
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Taylor & Francis Ltd Sep2017
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          Vlase, Ionela
          Preoteasa, Ana Maria
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          Department of Sociology, "Lucian Blaga" University of Sibiu, Sibiu, Romania
          Research Institute for Quality of Life, Romanian Academy of Science, Bucharest, Romania
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        Romania
        Immigrants
        Conflict theory
        Contact hypothesis (Sociology)
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        cosmopolitanism
        group conflict theory
        intergroup contact
        Perceived threat
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        group conflict theory
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      ab: This paper investigates the predictors of natives’ perception of the immigrant threat in Romania, an interesting site given immigrants’ marginal presence in the total population and the sizeable proportion of co-ethnic immigrants. Yet the interplay between nationalism and religion shapes an ideological frame that favours unwelcoming attitudes towards immigrants that challenge the Romanian identity forged along ethnic and religious ties. The authors used regression to analyse immigrant threat according to several dimensions: cosmopolitanism, group conflict and intergroup contact. In order to reflect specificities of this particular context, the latter dimension is conceptualized so as to include active and passive contact with immigrants. This distinction is relevant because of immigrants’ low presence in Romania. Findings suggest that variables from conflict theory explain more of the variation in the perceived threat, while indirect contact through mass-media exposure to immigrant content has the potential to reduce the perception of immigrant threat.
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