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Claire L. Adida, David D. Laitin, Marie-Anne Valfort
Found this on the social science Research Network and if you ask my opinion The first part of the title of the paper ‘One Muslim is Enough!’, says it all and more dramatic. Please read through and share you opinion. Click here to read the whole report.
Anti-Muslim prejudice is widespread in Western countries. Yet, Muslims are expected to constitute a growing share of the total population in Western countries over the next decades. This paper predicts that this demographic trend will increase anti-Muslim prejudice. Relying on experimental games and a formal model, we show that the generosity of rooted French toward Muslims is significantly decreased with the increase of Muslims in their midst, and demonstrate that these results are driven by the activation of rooted French taste-based discrimination against Muslims when Muslim numbers increase. Our findings call for solutions to anti-Muslim prejudice in the West.
Claire L. Adida, David D. Laitin, Marie-Anne Valfort
Found this on the social science Research Network and if you ask my opinion The first part of the title of the paper ‘One Muslim is Enough!’, says it all and more dramatic. Please read through and share you opinion. Click here to read the whole report.
Anti-Muslim prejudice is widespread in Western countries. Yet, Muslims are expected to constitute a growing share of the total population in Western countries over the next decades. This paper predicts that this demographic trend will increase anti-Muslim prejudice. Relying on experimental games and a formal model, we show that the generosity of rooted French toward Muslims is significantly decreased with the increase of Muslims in their midst, and demonstrate that these results are driven by the activation of rooted French taste-based discrimination against Muslims when Muslim numbers increase. Our findings call for solutions to anti-Muslim prejudice in the West.
Westerners like Muslims, so long as there’s not too many of them?
Relying on experimental games and a formal model, we show that the generosity of rooted French toward Muslims is significantly decreased with the increase of Muslims in their midst, and demonstrate that these results are driven by the activation of rooted French taste-based discrimination against Muslims when Muslim numbers increase.The perception by Europeans of a symbolic, rather than actual threat, accounts for the increase in Europeans’ anti-immigrant attitudes when the relative size of the immigrant community increases.
Conclusion
Our findings are critical for explaining Muslims’ economic handicap today and predict- ing its evolution in the next decades, not only in France but also in other Western countries provided our results hold there as well.26 First, the simple expectation that the presence of several Muslim employees exacerbates distaste among the rooted workforce and customers motivates any recruiter, even if she has no case against any particular Muslim, to screen out Muslim applicants, effectively discriminating on the basis of perceived religion.
Our findings are critical for explaining Muslims’ economic handicap today and predict- ing its evolution in the next decades, not only in France but also in other Western countries provided our results hold there as well.26 First, the simple expectation that the presence of several Muslim employees exacerbates distaste among the rooted workforce and customers motivates any recruiter, even if she has no case against any particular Muslim, to screen out Muslim applicants, effectively discriminating on the basis of perceived religion.
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