Towards an Integration of Models of Discrimination of Immigrants: from Ultimate (Functional) to Proximate (Sociofunctional) Explanations

Dmitry Grigoryev, Anastasia Batkhina (), Fons Vijver and John W. Berry
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Dmitry Grigoryev: National Research University Higher School of Economics
Anastasia Batkhina: National Research University Higher School of Economics
Fons Vijver: National Research University Higher School of Economics
John W. Berry: National Research University Higher School of Economics

Journal of International Migration and Integration, 2020, vol. 21, issue 3, No 1, 667-691

Abstract: Abstract We integrated models of discrimination of immigrants by combining established approaches to prejudice and discrimination towards immigrants (proximate explanations) using assumptions of Evolutionary-Coalitional Theory (ultimate explanations). Based on this perspective, right-wing authoritarianism (RWA), social dominance orientation (SDO), and multicultural ideology (MCI) were considered as sociofunctional motives for attitudes towards immigrants. We examined relationships between individual differences in beliefs about the social world (dangerous worldview and competitive worldview) as more distal antecedents, and RWA, SDO, and MCI as more proximal antecedents, and the endorsement of discrimination of immigrants in the socioeconomic domain by Russian majority group members as the outcome. Data were collected among 576 participants from 33 regions in Russia, using online social media. MCI predicted endorsement of discrimination of immigrants by Russian majority group members better than did RWA and SDO. SDO predicted only economic aspects of the endorsement of discrimination. The results are discussed within the Russian context, with its ethnically diverse composition of the population and high migration rates.

Keywords: Multicultural ideology; Right-wing authoritarianism; Social dominance orientation; Social worldviews; Endorsement of discrimination of immigrants; Evolutionary-coalitional theory (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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