Sociology Seminar 
Time: 12:00 pm – 13:30 pm
Date: 28th of May
Room : 3049

Haley McAvay (London School of Economics and Political Science)  – “Residential Diversity in Young Adulthood and Later Life Attitudes toward Immigration”

Abstract : 

Inequalities in residential environments have received a lot of attention in understanding the appeal of anti-immigration parties across advanced democracies in recent years. This paper explores the long-term association between neighborhood context in adolescence and attitudes towards immigration later in life drawing on a cohort study from the UK (Next Steps) matched with census data. Drawing on the premises of the impressionable years hypothesis and contact theory, we posit that as a space of socialisation, the local area that one experienced in adolescence is influential to the development of immigration attitudes. Our findings suggest that ethnic diversity during one’s adolescence has a persistent association with attitudes even when adulthood individual characteristics and residential environment are taken into account. Specifically, we find that living in ethnically diverse areas in adolescence is associated with increased tolerance toward immigration up to three decades later.

Zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/99318900973?pwd=54B86HGW2HQA2ac1KmhsT1Xt34mUxG.1

Organizers:
Paola TUBARO (Pôle sociologie CREST)

Nicolas JULIA (Pôle sociologie CREST)

Patrick PRÄG (Pôle sociologie CREST)

Sponsors:
CREST