Migrants’ lower Euroscepticism: utility, identity or values?
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2024-06-05
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Migration is increasingly seen by scholars as important for dynamics around Euroscepticism in Europe. This includes research on the Euroscepticism of migrants and their descendants. Several scholars have found evidence for a negative effect of an individual having a migration background on that person’s Euroscepticism. However, this literature has so far only hypothesized but not adequately empirically investigated why this negative effect could be. Using the two main theories of Utilitarianism and Identarian this research formulates three theoretical mechanisms to explain the negative relationship and tests them empirically. The negative effect on Euroscepticism can either be because people with a migration background have 1) a stronger European Identity 2) more Cultural Tolerance towards others, or 3) have more cross-border economic interactions and thus personal interests in European Integration. Using multivariate regression and mediation analyses these mechanisms are tested based on data taken from the European Social Survey over 31 European countries in the period 2016-2022. It finds empirical support for the European Identity and Cultural Tolerance mechanisms, but no evidence for the cross-border economic interactions mechanism.
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Faculteit der Managementwetenschappen