TY - JOUR
T1 - Attitudes and threat perception
T2 - Unemployment and immigration in Portugal
AU - Marques, M. Margarida
N1 - info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/FCT/5876/147295/PT#
UID/CPO/04627/2013
PY - 1999/1/1
Y1 - 1999/1/1
N2 - Unemployment consistently appears in Portuguese opinion polls as one of the nation's most serious problems. Yet, official rates of unemployment are comparatively low in European terms. Relying on statistical data on the composition of the labour force on the one hand, and on survey results on attitudes toward work, foreigners, and the opportunity structure, on the other hand, we show that there is a pervasive collective feeling of threat associated with employment seen as a scarce resource, which is being crystallized on immigrant labour. We hypothesise that it is a feeling structurally embedded in low labour force qualifications, dominant mistrust toward the opportunity structures, and perceived social distances between different social categories.
AB - Unemployment consistently appears in Portuguese opinion polls as one of the nation's most serious problems. Yet, official rates of unemployment are comparatively low in European terms. Relying on statistical data on the composition of the labour force on the one hand, and on survey results on attitudes toward work, foreigners, and the opportunity structure, on the other hand, we show that there is a pervasive collective feeling of threat associated with employment seen as a scarce resource, which is being crystallized on immigrant labour. We hypothesise that it is a feeling structurally embedded in low labour force qualifications, dominant mistrust toward the opportunity structures, and perceived social distances between different social categories.
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U2 - 10.1080/13608740408539585
DO - 10.1080/13608740408539585
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0033498527
SN - 1360-8746
VL - 4
SP - 184
EP - 205
JO - South European Society And Politics
JF - South European Society And Politics
IS - 3
ER -