Abstract
This paper investigates reasons behind negative attitudes toward immigrants. There is an examination of attitudes for a sample of eleven first world countries—mostly Western nations. Then two main factors are identified, which offer insight regarding negative perceptions, the degree of cultural difference and economic conditions. A higher degree of cultural differences will produce negative attitudes toward immigrants and poor economic conditions will lead to negative attitudes are the hypotheses in this paper. After testing the hypotheses, the most powerful factor producing negative perceptions toward immigrants and immigration are largely cultural differences. Economic conditions, though important, do not have as much of an effect.
How to Cite
Tudela, M. A., (2015) “The Forces Driving Negative Attitudes toward Immigrants”, Capstone, The UNC Asheville Journal of Undergraduate Scholarship 28(1).
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