Replication Data for: The Formation of Attitudes Toward Immigration in Colombia

What explains elevated hostility toward immigrants? We identify two concerns that affect support for immigration: labor market competition and social proximity between immigrants and natives. Relying on a conjoint experiment embedded in an original face to-face survey, we explore these dynamics in one of the largest migratory flows of the last decade: the Venezuelan exodus to Colombia. We find that respondents primarily reject lower-skill migrants. While ethnic proximity does not mitigate xenophobic attitudes in our context, familial ties and personal contact do. These findings confirm the relevance of pocketbook considerations in guiding attitudes towards foreigners but challenge the common assumption of positive in-group bias among co-ethnics. Moreover, we affirm the relevance of individual and familial proximity as key contributing factors to attenuating xenophobia in response to immigration in the Global South.是什么导致了针对移民的敌意高涨？我们识别出两类影响移民支持度的核心关切：劳动力市场竞争，以及移民与本地居民的社会亲近度。本研究依托一项嵌入原创面对面调查（face-to-face survey）的联合实验（conjoint experiment），针对近十年最大规模移民流动之一——委内瑞拉难民潮涌入哥伦比亚的场景，探究上述影响机制。研究发现，受访群体主要排斥低技能移民。在本研究场景中，族群亲近度并未缓解仇外心态，但家庭纽带与个人接触确实可以。上述结论证实了经济考量在引导民众对外籍人士态度中的重要性，同时挑战了"同族群者存在正向内群体偏见（in-group bias）"的普遍学术假设。此外，本研究进一步确认，个体与家庭层面的亲近度，是缓解全球南方（Global South）地区移民相关仇外情绪的关键影响因素。