Who are the Europeans that Europeans prefer? Economic conditions and exclusionary views toward European immigrants

International Journal of Comparative Sociology

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 100-113

  Gorodzeisky, Anastasia ^a  

^a CEACS   (Spain)

Author keywords

cross national analysis; Europe; exclusionary attitudes; immigration

Indexed keywords

ATTITUDINAL SURVEY; EUROPEAN IMMIGRANT; IMMIGRATION; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; PREFERENCE BEHAVIOR; PUBLIC ATTITUDE;

EUROPE;

EID: 79251519626     PISSN: 00207152     EISSN: 17452554     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0020715210377158     Document Type: Article

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