Abstract

The Institute of Social Sciences of the CSPS of the Slovak Academy of Sciences in Košice is an interdisciplinary workplace of social sciences and humanities with a primary research focus on the area of Central Europe in the field of social psychology, sociology and history.

Highlights

  • A growing number of anti-immigration protest and attacks against immigrants took place in European countries after the 2015 refugee crisis (ENAR, 2016)

  • The aim of our research is to develop a new theoretical composite index that supports policy makers in assessing immigration-related conflict risk at a regional level

  • The most recent are the European Commissions Global Conflict Risk Index (GCRI) (Halkia et al, 2020) and Uppsala Universitys research groups political violence early-warning system ViEWS (Hegre et al, 2019), which measure the likelihood of conflict on a national and/or subnational level

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Summary

Introduction

A growing number of anti-immigration protest and attacks against immigrants took place in European countries after the 2015 refugee crisis (ENAR, 2016). The most recent are the European Commissions Global Conflict Risk Index (GCRI) (Halkia et al, 2020) and Uppsala Universitys research groups political violence early-warning system ViEWS (Hegre et al, 2019), which measure the likelihood of conflict on a national and/or subnational level These indices are built to predict general conflict between at least two groups, our focus lies in immigration-related group conflict, which is unique in itself. The main contribution of our work is the ability to include individual level perception variables in the conflict index by using the data sourced from the three (2014 – 2018) waves of the ESS and national statistics database Both datasets allow us to collect data from the subnational level, where conflicts usually start and thrive. In this research phase, the data is limited to and tested in only one county, our argument and methodology has a broader scope

Triggers of immigration-related conflict
Selection of the indicators
Formation of the index
Conclusions
Limitations
Methods
Distrust of state institutions
Conflicting values
13. Communication skills
Findings
17. Immigration rate Other
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