Foreigners' impact on European societies: Public views and perceptions in a cross-national comparative perspective

International Journal of Comparative Sociology

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 5-29

  Semyonov, Moshe ^a   Raijman, Rebeca ^b   Gorodzeisky, Anastasia ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

Author keywords

Ethnic relations; European societies; Immigrants; Prejudice; Public attitudes

Indexed keywords

ATTITUDINAL SURVEY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CRIME; CULTURE; IMMIGRANT POPULATION; PERCEPTION; POLITICAL IDEOLOGY; PUBLIC ATTITUDE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOCIAL IMPACT;

EURASIA; EUROPE;

EID: 38149034473     PISSN: 00207152     EISSN: 17452554     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0020715207088585     Document Type: Article

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