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SOCIAL INFLUENCE
Volume 18, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/15534510.2023.2242619
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Asylum seekers; refugees; immigration attitudes; intergroup behavior; Ukraine; Syria
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This study compares Norwegians' attitudes towards immigration, perspective taking, and intergroup behaviors towards asylum seekers in 2016 (Syrians and Afghans) and 2022 (Ukrainians). The study finds that there was a stronger exclusionary response to asylum seekers in 2016 compared to 2022. Negative attitudes towards immigration and skepticism and avoidance of asylum seekers were more prevalent in 2016.
We compared Norwegians' attitudes to immigration, perspective taking, and intergroup behaviors directed at asylum seekers in 2016 (Syrians and Afghans) and 2022 (Ukrainians). We find evidence for a stronger exclusionary response to the asylum seekers in 2016 than in 2022. Attitudes to immigration were more negative in 2016 than in 2022, and skepticism and avoiding asylum seekers was more common. However, the dominant behavior in both years was prosocial (greeting and donating) and Norwegians' willingness to take asylum seekers perspective was similar in 2016 and 2022. These results may reflect an absence of a symbolic threat in 2022 and may be connected to differences in the political rhetoric about asylum seekers in 2015/2016 and 2022.
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