Estudio sobre actitudes ante la inmigración y los inmigrantes en Andalucía

The study focuses on migration attitudes in the Southern Spanish region of Andalusia, aiming to clarify three main interrogatives: (1) How did attitudes toward immigration and immigrants evolve amidst the context of unprecedented immigration flows across the Mediterranean? (2) Do attitudes toward immigrants evolve in parallel to opinions and attitudes regarding immigration as such? (3) How widespread is anti-immigrant sentiment, net of the distortions caused by social desirability pressures? These objectives were derived from prior research, including various surveys on migration attitudes in Andalusia which serve as benchmarks regarding time trends. The data suggest, firstly, that the so-called refugee crisis did not alter Andalusians’ migration attitudes substantively; secondly, that the (inter)personal component of immigration attitudes is largely disconnected from general impact assessments and policy preferences; and thirdly, that albeit estimates of anti-immigrant sentiment increase in non-obtrusive measurement, generalized antipathy toward immigrants appears to be a minority proposition in Andalusia. For detailed findings regarding the third objective, see Rinken, Sebastian; Pasadas del Amo, Sara; Rueda, Mª del Mar; y Cobo, Beatriz, “No Magic Bullet: Estimating Anti-Immigrant Sentiment and Social Desirability Bias with the Item-Count Technique” (forthcoming). The dataset contains 77 columns (=variables) and 1,232 lines(=cases).