The trade-off between admitting and paying: Experimental evidence on attitudes towards asylum responsibility-sharing

Cornelius Wright Cappelen, Hakan G. Sicakkan and Pierre Georges Van Wolleghem
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Cornelius Wright Cappelen: Department of Comparative Politics, 1658University of Bergen, Norway
Hakan G. Sicakkan: Department of Comparative Politics, 1658University of Bergen, Norway
Pierre Georges Van Wolleghem: Department of Comparative Politics, 1658University of Bergen, Norway

European Union Politics, 2023, vol. 24, issue 3, 470-493

Abstract: The concentration of the world's refugees in developing countries calls for international collaboration on the matter. In the face of concerns voiced not only amongst politicians but also the public, we investigate how people trade-off the two most prominent responsibility-sharing mechanism. We conduct a survey experiment in 26 countries asking whether people would rather: (a) admit more asylum seekers and (b) provide financial assistance to the host countries. We find that most respondents prefer admitting asylum seekers over paying. We also establish significant individual-level heterogeneity that sheds new light on people's attitudes towards asylum seekers. Importantly, we report on the effect of welfare chauvinism and nativism on the willingness to admit rather than to pay.

Keywords: Attitudes to refugees/asylum seekers; inclusive citizenship; nativism; responsibility/burden sharing; welfare chauvinism (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1177/14651165231156525

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