What Drives Attitudes toward Immigrants in Sub-Saharan Africa? Evidence from Uganda and Senegal

Malte Becker, Finja Krüger and Tobias Heidland
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Malte Becker: Kiel Institute for the World Economy
Finja Krüger: Kiel Institute for the World Economy

No 16734, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: We explore whether attitudes toward immigration and their determinants known from well-studied high-income countries also hold in so far understudied low-income settings where the economic, societal, and geopolitical circumstances differ markedly. Using a causal framework based on experimental and survey data in Uganda and Senegal, we extend the literature by introducing a new concept - power concerns - to test whether perceptions of foreign influence in business and politics affect attitudes toward immigrants. Furthermore, we provide evidence of the perceptions of Chinese immigrants in Africa, whose increasing presence is highly controversial and politicized.

Keywords: attitudes toward immigration; China in Africa; migration; experiment; conjoint (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F22 O15 O55 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 97 pages
Date: 2024-01
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-afr, nep-dev, nep-exp, nep-int, nep-mig and nep-ure
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