Narratives of solidarity: experimental evidence on shifting attitudes towards refugees.
This study investigates the constitutive role of narratives – multilayered, story-like, normative communications – in shaping public attitudes towards one of the world's most systematically stigmatised groups: forcibly displaced migrants such as refugees, asylum seekers, and undocumented migrants. W...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Ethnic & Migration Studies Vol. 52; no. 15; pp. 3891 - 3917 |
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Sep2026
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=hlh&AN=196416648&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: hlh uiTerm: 196416648 longDbName: Humanities International Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 1369183X 56F jtl: Journal of Ethnic & Migration Studies issn: 1369183X maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Sep2026 vid: 52 iid: 15 pid: 377 pub: Taylor & Francis Ltd artinfo: ui: 196416648 10.1080/1369183X.2025.2596271 ppf: 3891 ppct: 26 formats: fmt: – @attributes: type: T – @attributes: type: P size: 1.2MB tig: atl: Narratives of solidarity: experimental evidence on shifting attitudes towards refugees. aug: au: Yabanci, Bilge Elçi, Ezgi affil: Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Deusto, Bilbao, Spain Ikerbasque, The Basque Foundation of Science, Bilbao, Spain Department of International Relations, Özyeğin University, Istanbul, Turkey sug: keyword: attitudes experiment narratives Refugees Turkey ab: This study investigates the constitutive role of narratives – multilayered, story-like, normative communications – in shaping public attitudes towards one of the world's most systematically stigmatised groups: forcibly displaced migrants such as refugees, asylum seekers, and undocumented migrants. We introduce a novel sequential design where qualitative fieldwork informs the development of a large-scale online survey experiment (N = 1507). Our work tests the impact of solidarity-driven and bias-disrupting narratives in Turkey, a critical host country for refugees over the last decade, amidst intense public hostility, departing from experimental scholarship's common focus on negative narratives that highlight the outsider status of migrants. We demonstrate that even brief exposure to our narratives significantly improves both attitudinal solidarity and the willingness to take pro-refugee action in a challenging context. Critically, these effects are most pronounced among religious individuals, lower-income groups, and people who have minimal or no contact with refugees previously. These results provide strong evidence that carefully crafted narratives can shift public opinion and change the attitudes of some key groups towards refugees who are reported to hold firm anti-refugee and anti-migrant views. Overall, the study provides empirically grounded strategies for countering the pervasive narrative dominance of nativist actors who rely on sensationalised and misleading narratives. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: Y custom: Copyright of Journal of Ethnic & Migration Studies is the property of Taylor & Francis Ltd and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites without the copyright holder's express written permission. Additionally, content may not be used with any artificial intelligence tools or machine learning technologies. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. item: Journal of Ethnic & Migration Studies holder: Taylor & Francis Ltd dt: @attributes: year: 2026 holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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