Does Increasing Immigration Affect Ethnic Minority Groups?

Danying Li, Miguel R. Ramos, Matthew R. Bennett, Douglas S. Massey and Miles Hewstone

The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 2021, vol. 697, issue 1, 49-65

Abstract: Immigration is increasing around the world. Academic work suggests that increasing immigration reduces social cohesion and subjective well-being, but these studies mainly focused on white majority populations. Using the 2002 to 2014 European Social Survey, we analyze data from 5,149 ethnic minority respondents living in twenty-four European countries. We examine the association between immigration and respondents’ well-being, mediated by two critical cognitive mechanisms: perceived discrimination and generalized trust. We find that in the short term, immigration is associated with greater perceived discrimination, which in turn is associated with lower trust and well-being. Over the longer term, though, immigration is associated with lower perceived discrimination from ethnic minorities, yielding greater generalized trust and perceived well-being.

Keywords: immigration; ethnic diversity; ethnic minority; well-being; discrimination; contact; trust (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1177/00027162211051999

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