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GIF-Project "Citizenship"

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The Meaning of Citizenship, Entitlement to Rights and Support for Exclusionary Practices towards Foreign workers:  Germany and Israel in Comparative Perspective  

 

Financed by the German-Isreali Foundation for Scientific Research and Development

Overview

Overview

 The major goal of the proposed project is to provide a cross-national and over time comparative analysis of citizenship status and attitudes toward foreigners' rights as well as change in such attitudes and beliefs. When doing so, we also aim to advance the knowledge in the field of survey methodology by combining standard questionnaire measurements with in depth interviews (in both Germany and Israel).  In order to achieve our goals we plan to utilize several data sets obtained from a wide range of countries as well as original data sets from Israel and Germany in two or more points in time. In the data analysis we will combine both individual-level variables and country-level variables to evaluate the extent to which individuals' characteristics and perceptions interact with societal-structural variables to produce attitudes and change in attitudes and beliefs.

The objectives of the proposed project can be summarized as follows:
1)    Examine attitudes toward foreigners' rights with a comparative cross-national framework.
2)    Examine change over time in public views on foreigners' rights in Germany and in Israel.
3)    Examine the combined effects of individual-level characteristics and national-level contextual variables on attitudes toward foreigners.
4)    Contribute to the theoretical literature on citizenship in nation-states by identifying the underlying  structural-societal mechanisms that affect exclusionary attitudes and anti-foreigners sentiments in contemporary nation-states.
5)    Contribute to the methodological literature in survey analysis by utilizing and combining quantitative standard questionnaires with in depth interviews.
The project, thus, aims not only to advance the empirical knowledge in the study of citizenship,  exclusionary attitudes, and public views and beliefs toward subordinate  populations in contemporary societies but also to the theoretical and methodological literatures in the study of attitudes toward foreign populations.

Members

Members

The members of the project


Principal Investigators:
Prof. Dr. Peter Schmidt (University of Giessen, German)
Prof. Dr. Moshe Semyonov (Tel-Aviv University, Israel)

Cooperative Investigator:
Rebeca Raijman (University of Haifa, Israel)

Research Fellow:
Dr. Eldad Davidov (Central Archive for Empirical Social Research, University Cologne, Germany)


Student Assistant:
Phillip Winkelnkemper (University of Giessen, Germany)

Publications

Publications

Schlüter, Elmar, Eldad Davidov, and Peter Schmidt. 2007. The dynamics of authoritarianism and anomia: Applying autoregressive cross-lagged and latent growth models to a three-wave panel study. In Longitudinal models in the behavioral and related sciences, edited by K. van Montfort, H. Oud and A. Satorra. EAM Book Series: Lawrence Erlbaum Publishers.

Semyonov, Moshe, Rebeca Raijman, and Anastasia Gorodzeisky. 2006. The Rise of Anti-foreigner Sentiment in European Societies: 1988-2000. American Sociological Review 71(3): 426-449. Abstract

Möser, Thilo. 2005. Remigration von "Gastarbeitern" in ihre Herkunftsländer: Eine Verlaufsdatenanalyse mit dem Sozio-ökonomischen Panel. Diplom thesis, Justus-Liebig-Universität Giessen. Full text

Reinecke, Jost, Peter Schmidt, and Stefan Weick. 2005. Dynamic Modeling with Structural Equations and Stochastic Differential Equations: Applications with the German Socio-economic Panel. Quality and Quantity 39(4): 483-506. Abstract

Contact

Contact

Address:
Institut für Politikwissenschaft
GIF-Projekt "Citizenship"
Karl-Glöckner-Straße 21
Haus E
35394 Giessen

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