"No thanks, we're full": Individual characteristics, national context, and changing attitudes toward immigration

International Migration Review

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 302-329

  Wilkes, Rima ^a   Guppy, Neil ^a   Farris, Lily ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC IMPACT; IDEOLOGY; IMMIGRATION; IMMIGRATION POLICY; NATIONAL ECONOMY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 44349119185     PISSN: 01979183     EISSN: 17477379     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1747-7379.2008.00126.x     Document Type: Article

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