A comparison of refugee attitudes 2015 and today, just published in Nature:
Bansak, Hainmueller & Hangartner: Europeans’ support for #refugees of varying background is stable over time
"support for asylum seekers today is, if anything, slightly higher than six years ago at the height of the Syrian refugee crisis"
which is
"a consequence of the socio-demographic composition ... of Ukrainian refugees"
It continues: "The findings strongly contradict the idea that the increase in general support is limited to Ukrainian refugees. Indeed, in most countries there is a statistically significant increase in the percentage of accepted non-Ukrainian asylum seeker profiles in 2022 versus 2016... the increased support for refugees extends to other, non-Ukrainian groups of asylum seekers and that there is no evidence of substitution effects"
And "In stark contrast to the prediction that other refugee groups would face decreased support, we find that the percentage of accepted Muslim profiles has significantly increased in the majority of countries"
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