Who Believes the Country Belongs to Their Ethnic Ingroup? The Background Characteristics of ‘Owners’ and Their Support for Stricter Immigration Policies Across Three Western Societies
We examined if ethnic majority members with different background characteristics (national identification, political orientation, gender, education, and age) differ in the perception that their ethnic group owns the country they live in, and whether this can explain their opinions about stricter imm...
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| author | Lianne Straver Borja Martinović Tom Nijs Wybren Nooitgedagt Nora Storz |
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| description | We examined if ethnic majority members with different background characteristics (national identification, political orientation, gender, education, and age) differ in the perception that their ethnic group owns the country they live in, and whether this can explain their opinions about stricter immigration policies. Using nationally diverse samples of Anglo-Australian (N = 475), Dutch (N = 599), and British participants (N = 1005), we found that ownership beliefs were consistently positively associated with support for stricter immigration policies. Further, we showed that ownership beliefs were stronger among higher national identifiers, men, right-wing, lower educated (United Kingdom only), and older people (Australia only), and ownership partially accounted for these groups’ stronger endorsement of stricter immigration policies. Our study underscores the relevance of ownership beliefs as a novel construct that can explain the relation between personal background characteristics and anti-immigration stance among ethnic majority populations in Western countries. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-3a0271aae10f44bea881c63d9a18062d2024-02-08T10:55:07ZengPsychOpen GOLD/ Leibniz Institute for PsychologyJournal of Social and Political Psychology2195-33252023-11-0111257058510.5964/jspp.10617jspp.10617Who Believes the Country Belongs to Their Ethnic Ingroup? The Background Characteristics of ‘Owners’ and Their Support for Stricter Immigration Policies Across Three Western SocietiesLianne Straver0Borja Martinović1Tom Nijs2Wybren Nooitgedagt3Nora Storz4Department of Interdisciplinary Social Science, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The NetherlandsDepartment of Interdisciplinary Social Science, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The NetherlandsDepartment of Interdisciplinary Social Science, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The NetherlandsErasmus School of Social and Behavioural Sciences, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The NetherlandsThe Expert Council on Integration and Migration (SVR), Berlin, GermanyWe examined if ethnic majority members with different background characteristics (national identification, political orientation, gender, education, and age) differ in the perception that their ethnic group owns the country they live in, and whether this can explain their opinions about stricter immigration policies. Using nationally diverse samples of Anglo-Australian (N = 475), Dutch (N = 599), and British participants (N = 1005), we found that ownership beliefs were consistently positively associated with support for stricter immigration policies. Further, we showed that ownership beliefs were stronger among higher national identifiers, men, right-wing, lower educated (United Kingdom only), and older people (Australia only), and ownership partially accounted for these groups’ stronger endorsement of stricter immigration policies. Our study underscores the relevance of ownership beliefs as a novel construct that can explain the relation between personal background characteristics and anti-immigration stance among ethnic majority populations in Western countries.https://doi.org/10.5964/jspp.10617collective psychological ownershipattitudes toward immigrationnational identificationpolitical orientationethnic majorities |
| spellingShingle | Lianne Straver Borja Martinović Tom Nijs Wybren Nooitgedagt Nora Storz Who Believes the Country Belongs to Their Ethnic Ingroup? The Background Characteristics of ‘Owners’ and Their Support for Stricter Immigration Policies Across Three Western Societies Journal of Social and Political Psychology collective psychological ownership attitudes toward immigration national identification political orientation ethnic majorities |
| title | Who Believes the Country Belongs to Their Ethnic Ingroup? The Background Characteristics of ‘Owners’ and Their Support for Stricter Immigration Policies Across Three Western Societies |
| title_full | Who Believes the Country Belongs to Their Ethnic Ingroup? The Background Characteristics of ‘Owners’ and Their Support for Stricter Immigration Policies Across Three Western Societies |
| title_fullStr | Who Believes the Country Belongs to Their Ethnic Ingroup? The Background Characteristics of ‘Owners’ and Their Support for Stricter Immigration Policies Across Three Western Societies |
| title_full_unstemmed | Who Believes the Country Belongs to Their Ethnic Ingroup? The Background Characteristics of ‘Owners’ and Their Support for Stricter Immigration Policies Across Three Western Societies |
| title_short | Who Believes the Country Belongs to Their Ethnic Ingroup? The Background Characteristics of ‘Owners’ and Their Support for Stricter Immigration Policies Across Three Western Societies |
| title_sort | who believes the country belongs to their ethnic ingroup the background characteristics of owners and their support for stricter immigration policies across three western societies |
| topic | collective psychological ownership attitudes toward immigration national identification political orientation ethnic majorities |
| url | https://doi.org/10.5964/jspp.10617 |
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