Finland
There are several reasons why people decide to migrate to other countries. Whether, it is for education or monetary reason there are immigrants from other countries living in Finland. Individuals generated different opinions regarding immigration because of distinctive reasons. To examine individuals’ attitude towards immigrants is importance to identify the factors that influences such opinions. I would like to investigate how does economic circumstances can influence attitude towards immigration in Finland. The research question I plan to investigate is Does economic circumstance affect individual’s attitude on immigration in Finland?
Finland boards Sweden to the west, Russia to east and Norway to the north. The capital is Helsinki it has a population of 5,451,270 (2014) and its size is 338 435 km2. It was part of Sweden until 1809, Independent since 1917 and 1995 join the Europe Union. The political system of Finland is based on a democratic republic with a semi presidential system and parliament. Its official language is Finnish, Swedish and younger generation understand English. Immigration in Finland is comparative new compare to other Europe counties, it makes up only 2.7% of the whole population in Finland. In early 1990s the first immigration groups arrive from Somalia as refugees. Before that small number of refugees from Chile and Vietnam in the late 1970s. However, after the implement of new immigration laws like “ethnic return migration” that allows individuals from Ingrain to migrate to Finland if they can prove two grandparents are ethnic Finns. About 25000- 30,000 Ingrain Finns have arrived since 1990 and immigration has increase to marriages migrants. Literature on immigration opinion have studied many different components that may contribute to native’s notion of immigrants. Immigration brings new people, languages religions, and cultural practices to countries that can often create tension or misconception to navies. Kehrberg (2007) study the relation between public opinion on immigration and economics, tolerance, and exposure. He use the Euro barometer Survey 47.1 conduct in 1997 which samples the general opinions, 1997 CIA World Fact book, and national level data for 1996 from the 2002 Eurostat Yearbook . He found that individual’s economic and national economic comes …show more content…
My dependent variable would be attitude toward immigration which I will examine with the question Immigrants make county worse or better place to live. It is an ordinal scales that measures attitudes with a scale of 0-10 which values 0- worse place to live --10 better place to live. I will assess my independent variable by individual’s economic circumstance with the question Felling about household income’s nowadays. This question ranges from 4 ordinal categories which are comfortably on present income, coping on present income, difficult on present income, and very difficult on present income. I tend to find a relation between attitude toward immigration and economy circumstances, given that people with a good economic circumstances are more likely to have positive attitude towards immigrants than those individuals with a difficult economy circumstances. My hypothesis is that individuals that report a comfortable economy situation are more likely to have positive attitude towards immigrants than those individuals with very difficult economy situation. Since people with a good economic circumstances they do not feel threat by immigrant groups they may have favorable attitudes toward immigrant. While individuals that are having very difficult economic circumstances have less favorable attitude towards immigrant as the view them as competition and
There are several reasons why people decide to migrate to other countries. Whether, it is for education or monetary reason there are immigrants from other countries living in Finland. Individuals generated different opinions regarding immigration because of distinctive reasons. To examine individuals’ attitude towards immigrants is importance to identify the factors that influences such opinions. I would like to investigate how does economic circumstances can influence attitude towards immigration in Finland. The research question I plan to investigate is Does economic circumstance affect individual’s attitude on immigration in Finland?
Finland boards Sweden to the west, Russia to east and Norway to the north. The capital is Helsinki it has a population of 5,451,270 (2014) and its size is 338 435 km2. It was part of Sweden until 1809, Independent since 1917 and 1995 join the Europe Union. The political system of Finland is based on a democratic republic with a semi presidential system and parliament. Its official language is Finnish, Swedish and younger generation understand English. Immigration in Finland is comparative new compare to other Europe counties, it makes up only 2.7% of the whole population in Finland. In early 1990s the first immigration groups arrive from Somalia as refugees. Before that small number of refugees from Chile and Vietnam in the late 1970s. However, after the implement of new immigration laws like “ethnic return migration” that allows individuals from Ingrain to migrate to Finland if they can prove two grandparents are ethnic Finns. About 25000- 30,000 Ingrain Finns have arrived since 1990 and immigration has increase to marriages migrants. Literature on immigration opinion have studied many different components that may contribute to native’s notion of immigrants. Immigration brings new people, languages religions, and cultural practices to countries that can often create tension or misconception to navies. Kehrberg (2007) study the relation between public opinion on immigration and economics, tolerance, and exposure. He use the Euro barometer Survey 47.1 conduct in 1997 which samples the general opinions, 1997 CIA World Fact book, and national level data for 1996 from the 2002 Eurostat Yearbook . He found that individual’s economic and national economic comes …show more content…
My dependent variable would be attitude toward immigration which I will examine with the question Immigrants make county worse or better place to live. It is an ordinal scales that measures attitudes with a scale of 0-10 which values 0- worse place to live --10 better place to live. I will assess my independent variable by individual’s economic circumstance with the question Felling about household income’s nowadays. This question ranges from 4 ordinal categories which are comfortably on present income, coping on present income, difficult on present income, and very difficult on present income. I tend to find a relation between attitude toward immigration and economy circumstances, given that people with a good economic circumstances are more likely to have positive attitude towards immigrants than those individuals with a difficult economy circumstances. My hypothesis is that individuals that report a comfortable economy situation are more likely to have positive attitude towards immigrants than those individuals with very difficult economy situation. Since people with a good economic circumstances they do not feel threat by immigrant groups they may have favorable attitudes toward immigrant. While individuals that are having very difficult economic circumstances have less favorable attitude towards immigrant as the view them as competition and