The Impact of Cultural and Economic Threat on Attitudes towards Syrian Refugees

• In Event: Public Opinion about Immigration

Brief Overview

This study uses experimental data and the 2016 ANES, to test whether economic threat, negative perceptions of Muslims (cultural threat) or a combination of the two, results in resistance to the resettlement of Syrian refugees in the U.S

Authors

• Beyza Ekin Buyuker, University of Illinois at Chicago

• Rita Nassar, Indiana University