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Workplace Contact and Support for Anti-Immigration Parties
Stockholm University, Faculty of Social Sciences, The Swedish Institute for Social Research (SOFI). Uppsala University, Sweden.ORCID iD: 0000-0003-0123-1639
Number of Authors: 22021 (English)In: American Political Science Review, ISSN 0003-0554, E-ISSN 1537-5943, Vol. 115, no 4, p. 1159-1174Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

How does an increased presence of immigrants in the workplace affect anti-immigration voting behavior? While cooperative interactions between natives and immigrants can reduce intergroup prejudice, immigrant coworkers might be regarded as a threat to native-born workers’ labor market position. We combine detailed Swedish workplace data with precinct-level election outcomes for a large anti-immigration party (the Sweden Democrats) to study how the share of non-Europeans in the workplace affects opposition to immigration. We show that the share of non-Europeans in the workplace has a negative effect on support for the Sweden Democrats and that this effect is solely driven by same-skill contact in small workplaces. We interpret these results as supporting the so-called contact hypothesis: that increased interactions with minorities can reduce opposition to immigration among native-born voters, which, in turn, leads to lower support for anti-immigration parties.

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2021. Vol. 115, no 4, p. 1159-1174
Keywords [en]
Immigration, anti-immigration parties, contact hypothesis, workplace
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Political Science
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URN: urn:nbn:se:su:diva-195521DOI: 10.1017/S0003055421000599ISI: 000784284600004Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85109827221OAI: oai:DiVA.org:su-195521DiVA, id: diva2:1586630
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EU, European Research Council, 683214The Jan Wallander and Tom Hedelius FoundationAvailable from: 2021-08-20 Created: 2021-08-20 Last updated: 2022-05-04Bibliographically approved

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