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Did you know that we produce comprehensive data to help you understand attitudes toward migration in Europe? Recently, we created a quiz for you to test your own knowledge.
Quiz questions
#1: True or false? Research suggests that people’s attitudes to migration are highly subject to day-to-day 📆 experiences and remain volatile throughout life ↩️ ↪️
#2: True or false? Research suggests that men 👨 and women 👩 express significantly different ↔️attitudes towards immigration.
#3: True or false? Research suggests that COVID 😷greatly influenced how important 🛎️ people thought migration was as a political issue.
#4: True or false? Research suggests that older individuals hold significantly more anti-immigration attitudes than younger individuals 👵🏻 vs 👧🏻
#5: True or false?Research suggests that appealing to emotions 😡😊😬 in migration communication is effective and does not need to be combined with facts or values 📊.
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Quiz Answers
#1: True or false? Research suggests that people’s attitudes to migration are highly subject to day-to-day 📆 experiences and remain volatile throughout life ↩️ ↪️
Answer: False. Research suggest that people’s attitudes to immigration are most formed by early life experiences. They are deeply rooted and primarily changed at the aggregate level via generational replacement.
See: ‘Public Attitudes to Immigration in the Aftermath of COVID-19: Little Change in Policy Preferences, Big Drops in Issue Salience’ – James Dennison, Alex Koustov, & Andrew Geddes
#2: True or false? Research suggests that men 👨 and women 👩 express significantly different ↔️attitudes towards immigration.
Answer: False. There are no significant differences in attitudes to immigration across gender based on a meta-analysis.]
See: ‘Understanding differences in attitudes to immigration: A meta-analysis of individual level factors – Lenka Dražanová, Jérôme Gonnot, Tobias Heidland and Finja Krüger
#3: True or false? Research suggests that COVID 😷greatly influenced how important 🛎️ people thought migration was as a political issue.
Answer: True. While COVID did not change people’s attitudes about what migration policies should look like, it did change how important they perceived migration to be as a political topic.
See: ‘Public Attitudes to Immigration in the Aftermath of COVID-19: Little Change in Policy Preferences, Big Drops in Issue Salience’ – James Dennison, Alex Koustov, & Andrew Geddes
#4: True or false? Research suggests that older individuals hold significantly more anti-immigration attitudes than younger individuals 👵🏻 vs 👧🏻
Answer: True. However, the strong differences between older and younger people are not primarily because ageing makes them less tolerant of migrants but due to the different contexts in which people have been socialized.
See: Cast in the same mould : how politics during the impressionable years shapes attitudes towards immigration in later life -Anne-Marie Jeannet & Lenka Dražanová
#5: True or false?Research suggests that appealing to emotions 😡😊😬 in migration communication is effective and does not need to be combined with facts or values 📊.
Answer: False. While using emotions in communications makes messages more resonant and persuasive but the argument should not just “appeal to emotions;” instead it should be combined with facts, values and identities.
See: Using emotions in migration policy communication’ -James Dennison