Acceptable in the EU? Why some immigration restrictionists support European Union mobility

Journal article

Abstract:: Why do some Europeans support immigration from within the European Union, while rejecting immigration from elsewhere? Acceptance of intra-European Union mobility—even by those who wish to restrict immigration more generally—is important for popular support for the European Union itself. This paper identifies and attempts to explain the preferences of “EU-only inclusionists”: EU nationals who support relatively high levels of immigration, but only from within the European Union. We analyze an underexplored experimental module in the European Social Survey to explore European Union inclusionism in relation to other preference profiles. We find that identification with the European Union helps explain specific support for European Union mobility, while subnational (racial and religious) identities are associated with a preference for European migrants over non-Europeans, but not with specific support for intra-European Union movement.

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Institution:: University of Oxford
Division:: Social Sciences Division
Department:: SAME
Department:: Oxford, SSD, Anthropology, Centre on Migration Policy and Society
Role:: Author

Keywords:: supranational identity

immigration attitudes

mobility

European Union

migration
Pubs id:: pubs:985056
UUID:: uuid:b74a6580-d1cf-464c-87ec-d5180df34a93
Local pid:: pubs:985056
Source identifiers:: 985056
Deposit date:: 2019-03-27

Copyright holder:: Blinder and Markaki
Notes:: © The Author(s) 2019. This is the accepted manuscript version of the article. The final version is available online from SAGE Publications at: https://doi.org/10.1177/1465116519839782

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