Fairness or Threat? Understanding Sources of Immigration Backlash in Democracies

• In Event: Attitudes Towards Immigration, Immigration Policy and Politics

Brief Overview

Why does immigration trigger backlash? Survey experiments in the U.S., Germany, South Korea, and Singapore test whether civic fairness shapes attitudes beyond the U.S. and Western democracies, compared to cultural threat and economic competition.

Author

• Steven Denney, Leiden University