英国脱欧、新冠疫情与英国对移民的态度。
Brexit, COVID-19, and attitudes toward immigration in Britain.
作者信息
Pickup Mark, de Rooij Eline A, van der Linden Clifton, Goodwin Matthew J
机构信息
Department of Political Science Simon Fraser University 8888 University Drive Burnaby BC V5A 1S6 Canada.
Department of Political Science McMaster University Hamilton ON Canada.
出版信息
Soc Sci Q. 2021 Sep;102(5):2184-2193. doi: 10.1111/ssqu.13010. Epub 2021 Aug 27.
OBJECTIVE
A key issue in Britain's referendum on European Union membership was the free movement of labor into Britain, with Brexit "Leavers" having more negative attitudes toward immigrants than "Remainers." Such anti-immigrant attitudes are driven by feelings of threat. The coronavirus pandemic presented a new threat in the context of ongoing Brexit negotiations. This paper examines how the COVID-19 pandemic affected anti-immigrant attitudes and how these effects differ between Leavers and Remainers.
METHODS
Using an online survey in Spring 2020 of 3,708 individuals residing in the UK, we experimentally test the effect of priming COVID-19 thoughts on anti-immigrant attitudes, and examine whether this effect varies by Brexit identity.
RESULTS
We show that COVID-19 may exacerbate anti-immigrant attitudes among Leavers while having little effect on Remainers.
CONCLUSION
These findings support the idea that the coronavirus pandemic might have presented a new, viral, threat that heightened anti-immigrant attitudes among certain political identities.
目的
英国脱欧公投中的一个关键问题是劳动力自由进入英国，脱欧“支持者”对移民的态度比“留欧者”更为负面。这种反移民态度是由威胁感驱动的。在脱欧谈判进行期间，新冠疫情带来了新的威胁。本文探讨了新冠疫情如何影响反移民态度，以及脱欧支持者和留欧者在这些影响上的差异。
方法
通过2020年春季对3708名居住在英国的个人进行的在线调查，我们通过实验测试了引发对新冠疫情的思考对反移民态度的影响，并研究这种影响是否因脱欧身份而异。
结果
我们发现，新冠疫情可能会加剧脱欧支持者的反移民态度，而对留欧者影响甚微。
结论
这些发现支持了这样一种观点，即新冠疫情可能带来了一种新的、像病毒一样的威胁，加剧了某些政治身份群体的反移民态度。
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