TY - JOUR
T1 - Perceived threat and exclusionary attitudes towards foreign workers in Israel
AU - Raijman, Rebeca
AU - Semyonov, Moshe
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was supported by a grant from the Israeli Foundation Trustees (grant no 72u98) and by a grant from the G.I.F., the German Israeli Foundation for Scientific Research and Developmant (grant no. 1-596-14).
PY - 2004/9
Y1 - 2004/9
N2 - The present article focuses on determinants of attitudes towards granting social rights to overseas labour migrants in Israeli society. The analysis is based on a national representative sample of the adult population in Israel. The findings reveal that a substantial number of respondents (both Jews and Arabs) oppose granting equal social rights (i.e. education, welfare, health, housing) to foreign workers. These attitudes can partially be explained as resulting from perceived threat to social and economic well-being of individuals as well as threat to national identity and Jewish character of the state. Part of the exclusionary attitudes that cannot be attributed to threats, are explained by individuals' socio-economic characteristics, ethnicity and political orientation. The findings are discussed within the context of Israel as an ethno-national state.
AB - The present article focuses on determinants of attitudes towards granting social rights to overseas labour migrants in Israeli society. The analysis is based on a national representative sample of the adult population in Israel. The findings reveal that a substantial number of respondents (both Jews and Arabs) oppose granting equal social rights (i.e. education, welfare, health, housing) to foreign workers. These attitudes can partially be explained as resulting from perceived threat to social and economic well-being of individuals as well as threat to national identity and Jewish character of the state. Part of the exclusionary attitudes that cannot be attributed to threats, are explained by individuals' socio-economic characteristics, ethnicity and political orientation. The findings are discussed within the context of Israel as an ethno-national state.
KW - Competition
KW - Exclusionary attitudes
KW - Israel
KW - Labour migrants
KW - Minority rights
KW - Threat
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=4344568114&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/0141987042000246345
DO - 10.1080/0141987042000246345
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AN - SCOPUS:4344568114
SN - 0141-9870
VL - 27
SP - 780
EP - 799
JO - Ethnic and Racial Studies
JF - Ethnic and Racial Studies
IS - 5
ER -
