After having had some time to adjust to the largest EU enlargements of 2004 and 2007, and facing ... more After having had some time to adjust to the largest EU enlargements of 2004 and 2007, and facing the UK’s impending “age of austerity” beginning in 2010 (Lane, 2010), Britons generally expressed a moderate opinion on immigrants’ contributions to British culture, with few people either extremely local or extremely cosmopolitan. The question of whether realistic and symbolic factors affect attitudes toward immigration is widespread in the literature. The current study looks at a symbolic aspect of immigration attitudes, cosmopolitanism, defined as the belief that immigrants enrich a country’s culture, and seeks to find determinants of it. Results of multivariate linear regressions indicate that perceived, subjective income is a better predictor of cosmopolitanism than objective measures. When education is included, the effect of objective income becomes insignificant and subjective income security becomes smaller. Perhaps the most interesting finding is that women expressed less cosmopolitan attitudes than men when controlling for perceived income security and education, a result that supports the call for more research on gender and cosmopolitanism.
After having had some time to adjust to the largest EU enlargements of 2004 and 2007, and facing ... more After having had some time to adjust to the largest EU enlargements of 2004 and 2007, and facing the UK’s impending “age of austerity” beginning in 2010 (Lane, 2010), Britons generally expressed a moderate opinion on immigrants’ contributions to British culture, with few people either extremely local or extremely cosmopolitan. The question of whether realistic and symbolic factors affect attitudes toward immigration is widespread in the literature. The current study looks at a symbolic aspect of immigration attitudes, cosmopolitanism, defined as the belief that immigrants enrich a country’s culture, and seeks to find determinants of it. Results of multivariate linear regressions indicate that perceived, subjective income is a better predictor of cosmopolitanism than objective measures. When education is included, the effect of objective income becomes insignificant and subjective income security becomes smaller. Perhaps the most interesting finding is that women expressed less cosmopolitan attitudes than men when controlling for perceived income security and education, a result that supports the call for more research on gender and cosmopolitanism.
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