Prejudice and tolerance in a period of increasing ethnic diversity and growing unemployment: Denmark since 1970
- 1 November 1998
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Ethnic and Racial Studies
- Vol. 21 (6) , 1137-1154
- https://doi.org/10.1080/01419879808565656
Abstract
Since the end of the 1960s Denmark, once an ethnically homogeneous country, has become more heterogeneous as a result of immigration by foreign workers and refugees. The question is how has this development influenced the attitudes in Denmark towards immigrants? The saliency of the immigrant issue has certainly grown, but contrary to expectations, the level of ethnocentrism has changed very little. If anything, the Danish population has become less prejudiced and more tolerant during the last thirty years. This conclusion, based on a number of national surveys, is even more conspicuous as the level of unemployment has increased in the same period.Keywords
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