Contextual sources of perceived group threat: Negative immigration-related news reports, immigrant group size and their interaction, Spain 1996-2007
E. Schlueter, and E. Davidov. European Sociological Review (ESR), 29 (2):
179--191(2013)
Abstract
This study attempts to further our understanding of the contextual sources of anti-immigrant sentiments by simultaneously examining the impact of immigrant group size, negative immigration-related news reports and their interaction on natives? perceived group threat. We test our theoretical assumptions using repeated cross-sectional survey data from Spain during the time period 1996 to 2007, enriched with regional statistics on immigrant group size and information from a longitudinal content analysis of newspaper reports. Drawing on multilevel regression models, our findings show that a greater number of negative immigration-related news reports increases perceived group threat over and above the influence of immigrant group size. Additionally, our findings indicate that the impact of negative immigration-related news reports on perceived group threat is amplified (weakened) in regions with a smaller (larger) immigrant group size. Collectively, these results testify to the importance of immigrant group size and negative immigration-related news reports as key contextual sources of natives? perceived group threat.
%0 Journal Article
%1 zora55139
%A Schlueter, Elmar
%A Davidov, Eldad
%D 2013
%I Oxford University Press
%J European Sociological Review (ESR)
%K analysis, confirmatory effects, group immigrant longitudinal mass media multilevel oup perceived research size, survey theory, threat
%N 2
%P 179--191
%T Contextual sources of perceived group threat: Negative immigration-related news reports, immigrant group size and their interaction, Spain 1996-2007
%U http://www.zora.uzh.ch/55139/1/schlueter_davidov__contextual.pdf
%V 29
%X This study attempts to further our understanding of the contextual sources of anti-immigrant sentiments by simultaneously examining the impact of immigrant group size, negative immigration-related news reports and their interaction on natives? perceived group threat. We test our theoretical assumptions using repeated cross-sectional survey data from Spain during the time period 1996 to 2007, enriched with regional statistics on immigrant group size and information from a longitudinal content analysis of newspaper reports. Drawing on multilevel regression models, our findings show that a greater number of negative immigration-related news reports increases perceived group threat over and above the influence of immigrant group size. Additionally, our findings indicate that the impact of negative immigration-related news reports on perceived group threat is amplified (weakened) in regions with a smaller (larger) immigrant group size. Collectively, these results testify to the importance of immigrant group size and negative immigration-related news reports as key contextual sources of natives? perceived group threat.
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title = {Contextual sources of perceived group threat: Negative immigration-related news reports, immigrant group size and their interaction, Spain 1996-2007},
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