Replication Data for: Exposure to Immigration and Admission Preferences: Evidence from France

To what extent does exposure to immigration condition the types of immigrants citizens are willing to admit? Extending the conjoint approach adopted by Hainmueller and Hopkins (2015), this study investigates whether the admission preferences of French natives vary based on personal exposure to immigration, as proxied by local demographics and self-reported social contact. Methodologically, we propose and apply new methods to compare attribute salience across different subgroups of respondents. We find that although an inflow of immigrants into respondents' municipalities has a limited influence on how French natives evaluate prospective immigrants, social contact with immigrants matters. Specifically, French natives who do not frequently interact with immigrants are significantly less favorable toward immigrants from non-western countries, and more favorable toward immigrants from western countries. In contrast, natives who report frequent social interactions with immigrants place less weight on nationality as a criterion for immigrant admission. Although scholars have noted an increasing consensus in immigration attitudes across developed democracies, our findings suggest that individual experiences with immigration condition preferences for immigration policy at the national level.

民众接触移民的经历，在多大程度上影响其愿意接纳的移民类型？本研究拓展了Hainmueller与Hopkins（2015）所采用的联合分析方法（conjoint approach），以当地人口统计数据与自我报告的社会接触程度作为移民接触经历的代理变量，探讨法国本土居民的移民接纳偏好是否会随其个人移民接触经历发生变化。在方法论层面，本文提出并运用全新方法，对比不同受访子群体的属性显著性（attribute salience）。研究结果显示，尽管受访居民所在市镇的移民流入量，对法国本土居民评估潜在移民的方式影响有限，但与移民的社会接触确实会产生影响。具体而言，未与移民进行高频互动的法国本土居民，对非西方国家移民的接纳度显著更低，而对西方国家移民的接纳度则更高。与之形成对比的是，自述与移民存在高频社会互动的本土居民，在移民接纳标准中对国籍因素的重视程度更低。尽管已有学者指出，发达民主国家民众的移民态度正逐渐达成共识，但本研究结果表明，个人的移民接触经历会影响其在国家层面的移民政策偏好。