Factors affecting attitudes toward migrants-An evolutionary approach.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To understand migration from an evolutionary perspective, this phenomenon has so far been mainly investigated in animal species. We therefore aim to investigate the potential evolutionary roots of attitudes toward migrants in humans.

Methods

We used data from the European Social Survey (n = 83 734), analyzing attitudes toward migrants by performing ordinal mixed models.

Results

We found that men have a more restrictive attitude toward migration than women, which increases with age and is stronger with a child in the household. Attitude toward migrants is also more skeptical if migrants have a different ethnicity and are from poorer countries. Increasing education and religiousness are associated with a more positive attitude toward migrants, particularly tow

SUBMITTER: Schahbasi A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7900986 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature