Local accommodation for refugees
The need for accommodation for refugees has grown steadily in the wake of the large-scale refugee movements to Europe since 2015. Often, there are regional protests when a new facility is announced. Thus, researchers investigated what influence the geographical proximity of accommodation has on people’s attitudes towards refugees.
To do this, they evaluated geographical data from the study “Living in Germany”, looking at people living within a radius of 20 kilometers of a facility. The result: there is hardly any evidence that nearby accommodation influences attitudes towards refugees. In fact, according to the researchers, people’s attitudes remain fairly stable over a longer period of time. There is much to suggest that negative attitudes are most likely to be driven by a general concern for the individually perceived well-being of society. The presence of accommodation for refugees in the immediate vicinity, on the other hand, is not a decisive factor.
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