Disentangling aporophobia from xenophobia in the EU-15
研究了1998-2018年欧盟15国126个地区中，移民的人力资本水平能否解释仇外趋势，发现低教育低技能移民流入与排斥显著相关，证实了贫困恐惧症假说。
This paper analyses whether the human capital levels embodied in immigrants can explain xenophobic trends for 126 regions in 14 EU-15 countries from 1998 to 2018. It tests if xenophobic regions may be rejecting immigrants because they are poor, a phenomenon recently defined as ‘aporophobia’. The results indicate that larger inflows of low-educated immigrants working in low-skilled occupations are significantly correlated with a higher rejection of migrants, thus confirming the aporophobia hypothesis. The findings in this paper bring light to the discussion of a powerful concept which underpins the need for a more just society.