The Effects of Three Facets of National Identity and Other Socioeconomic Traits on Attitudes Towards Immigrants

• Published in: Journal of international migration and integration Vol. 25; no. 2; pp. 645 - 672
• Main Authors: Indelicato, Alessandro, Martín, Juan Carlos
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 01.06.2024; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Attitudes; attitudes towards immigrants; Clustering; Demography; Foreign born citizens; fuzzy-clustering analysis; Immigrants; International Social Survey Programme: National Identity II - ISSP 2003 (ZA3910); International Social Survey Programme: National Identity III - ISSP 2013 (ZA5950); ISSP; Migration; National identity; Nationalism; Openness; Patriotism; Political attitudes; Politics; Population Economics; probit model; Religion; Social Sciences; Sociodemographics; Socioeconomics; Sociology; Probit model; Fuzzy-clustering analysis; Patriotism; Attitudes towards immigrants; National identity
• ISSN: 1488-3473; 1874-6365; 1874-6365
• DOI: 10.1007/s12134-023-01100-1

The academic literature showed an increasing interest in studying the link between national identity and anti-immigrant sentiment. This work is based on ten countries from the International Social Survey Program (ISSP) dataset for two different waves: 2003 and 2013. The paper aims to analyse the influence of the three facets of national identity (nationalism, political patriotism, and cultural patriotism) and other socioeconomic traits on attitudes towards immigrants (ATI). Untried methods in social science based on the fuzzy-hybrid analysis (FHA) and the fuzzy clustering are used first to analyse citizens according to their levels of openness towards immigrants, nationalism, cultural patriotism, and political patriotism. Then, the ordered probit model is applied to thoroughly examine the intricate relationships connecting the three facets of national identity and individual sociodemographic characteristics with ATI. The results show that the national identity and cultural patriotism constructs negatively influence ATI, while political patriotism positively influences ATI. In addition, country, political orientation, age, religion, economic situation, gender, place of birth, principal status, and education are crucial factors that explain ATI.