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The Impact of Intergroup Contact and Intergroup Conflict on Japanese Immigration Attitudes

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Title: The Impact of Intergroup Contact and Intergroup Conflict on Japanese Immigration Attitudes
Authors: Gentry, Hope Dewell Browse this author
Branton, Regina Browse this author
Issue Date: 2019
Publisher: Slavic-Eurasian Research Center, Hokkaido University
Journal Title: Eurasia Border Review
Volume: 10
Issue: 1
Start Page: 43
End Page: 58
Abstract: Due to its aging population, Japan has been experiencing the negative effects of a shrinking workforce. Relaxing immigration policies and increasing the number of foreign workers has been suggested to help alleviate the workforce problem. This paper explores the circumstances under which the Japanese public is likely to hold favorable attitudes toward open immigration. Using intergroup contact and group threat theories, we determine that there is a conditional relationship between the frequency of contact with foreigners and the number of foreigners in a region on attitudes toward immigration. As the size of the foreign population increases, frequency of contact with foreign workers no longer has a mediating effect on immigration attitudes, and support for more open immigration policies decreases.
Type: bulletin (article)
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2115/78140
Appears in Collections:Eurasia Border Review > Vol. 10, No.1

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