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Immigrants’ subjective well-being in Europe: Variation by regional attitudes towards immigrants

Šedovič, Michaela; (2023) Immigrants’ subjective well-being in Europe: Variation by regional attitudes towards immigrants. Migration Studies 10.1093/migration/mnad034. (In press). Green open access

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Abstract

Research suggests that migrants’ well-being varies with their lived environment. This variation’s potential but under-researched driver is non-migrants’ attitude towards immigrants (ATI). Using pooled European Social Survey data (2010–18) for twenty-two destination countries, I address the question, ‘Are more positive ATI in regions where migrants live associated with their higher life satisfaction?’. To answer it, I estimate models of life satisfaction regressed on a summed index of six measures of ATI aggregated to the regional level and control for individual-level predictors and country, year, and origin fixed effects. I find a significant association between more negative regional ATI and lower migrant well-being. Its strength is comparable with the most important known individual-level predictors of well-being (e.g., education). My descriptive results further show that the length of stay at the destination moderates the strength of association (only those more recently arrived are affected). Despite well-attested links between feelings of discrimination and well-being, I show that those who express greater discrimination are not more sensitive to ATI. This suggests that each measure speaks to a separate mechanism for experiencing discrimination. Showing that ATI is strongly related to migrants’ well-being implies that the lived environment should be at the forefront of the migration outcomes research.

Type: Article
Title: Immigrants’ subjective well-being in Europe: Variation by regional attitudes towards immigrants
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1093/migration/mnad034
Publisher version: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/migration/mnad034
Language: English
Additional information: C The Author(s) 2023. Published by Oxford University Press. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Keywords: attitudes towards immigrants; European Social Survey; immigrants’ subjective well-being; perceived discrimination; inequality; quantitative methods.
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://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10185778
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