Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/295757 
Year of Publication: 
2024
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 16734
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
We explore whether attitudes toward immigration and their determinants known from well-studied high-income countries also hold in so far understudied low-income settings where the economic, societal, and geopolitical circumstances differ markedly. Using a causal framework based on experimental and survey data in Uganda and Senegal, we extend the literature by introducing a new concept - power concerns - to test whether perceptions of foreign influence in business and politics affect attitudes toward immigrants. Furthermore, we provide evidence of the perceptions of Chinese immigrants in Africa, whose increasing presence is highly controversial and politicized.
Subjects: 
attitudes toward immigration
China in Africa
migration
experiment
conjoint
JEL: 
F22
O15
O55
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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