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Opinionated Family Migration Policies?
Sondergaard, J.
2016
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Sondergaard, J. (2016). Opinionated Family Migration Policies? Public opinion and resistance to EU harmonization of family reunification policies in Europe. Uitgeverij BoxPress.
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Table of Content
List of tables, charts and figures 8
Abbreviations 11
Overview, conclusions and discussion - opinionated family migration policies? 13
Summary 14
Introduction 14
Research problem 16
Trends in family migration policies across the EU 16 Theoretical framework - public opinion and policies 19
Opinion-policy nexus 20
Policy-opinion nexus 22
Overview of studies included in this thesis 23 Study I. MIPi: A new index developed with implicative scaling for comparing family reunification policies in 27 European countries 24 Study II. Growing Apart or Growing Together? Public support for
shared-earning and shared-caring in 33 EU and non-EU countries
between 1990 and 2008 24
Study III. Moving Apart? The influence of the EU on public support for
immigration and pro-immigrant attitudes in Europe between 2002 and 2012 25 Study IV. Opinionated Family Migration Policies? Examining the influence of pro-immigrant/immigration attitudes and egalitarian gender role attitudes on family migration policies in European countries 26
Data and methodology 26
Conclusions 29
Discussion 30
Study I. MIPi: A new index developed with implicative scaling for comparing family reunification policies in 27 European countries
33
Summary 34
Introduction 34
Implicative scaling 44
Validation results 48
Race to the bottom 50
European hardliners 51
Divergence 52
Conclusions and discussion 52
Appendix 54
Study II. Growing Apart or Growing Together? Public support for shared-earning and shared-caring in 33 EU and non-EU countries between 1990 and 2008
63
Summary 64
Introduction 64
Gender role attitudes: shared-earning and shared-caring 65 EU harmonization of female employment and childcare policies and public opinion toward shared-earning and shared-caring 66
Data and methodology 68
Results 76
Conclusion and discussion 78
Study III. Moving Apart? The influence of the EU on public support for immigration and pro-immigrant attitudes in Europe between 2002 and 2012
83
Summary 84
Introduction 84
EU harmonization of immigration and immigrant policies 86 The EU and divergence of public support for immigration and pro-immigrant
attitudes 89
Data and methodology 90
Results 98
Conclusion and discussion 102
Study IV. Opinionated Family Migration Policies? Examining the influence of pro-immigrant/immigration attitudes and egalitarian gender role attitudes on family migration policies in European countries
105
Summary 106
Introduction 106
Opinion-policy nexus 108
Policy-opinion nexus 112
Data 113
Policy variables 114
Public opinion variables 116
Methodology and results 120
Random-effects panel regression 120
Structural equation modeling 122
Conclusion and discussion 127
Acknowledgements 133
