(Dis)agreement with the Implementation of Humanitarian Policy Measures Towards Asylum Seekers in Israel: Does the Frame Matter?

Oshrat Hochman () and Adi Hercowitz-Amir ()
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Oshrat Hochman: Ruppin Academic Center
Adi Hercowitz-Amir: University of Haifa

Journal of International Migration and Integration, 2017, vol. 18, issue 3, No 13, 897-916

Abstract: Abstract This study investigates emerging public attitudes about the implementation of humanitarian policy measures towards asylum seekers among the Jewish population in Israel. It specifically asks whether the way asylum seekers in Israel are framed informs the process of attitude formation in the Jewish Israeli public. To answer this question, we measure the extent to which the frame “infiltrators” as opposed to the frame “asylum seekers” positively predicts the rejection of humanitarian policy measures toward asylum seekers. Following framing theory, we also propose that the framing effect depends on the respondents’ perceived levels of threat by asylum seekers, and on their political identification. In line with our hypothesis, the findings indicate that the effect of the framing on the rejection of humanitarian policy measures decreases with increasing levels of threat. Although the framing effect on the rejection of humanitarian policy measures towards asylum seekers is somewhat weaker among respondents with a right-wing political identification, the differences between these and other respondents are not significant.

Keywords: Asylum seekers; Israel; Framing; Perceived threat; Humanitarian policy; Attitudes (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1007/s12134-016-0510-0

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