Applying the CARIN Criteria to Migrant Settlement: Cross-National Validation of the Migrant Deservingness Scale

According to social policy literature, people utilize five criteria - Control, Attitude, Reciprocity, Identity, Need - to distinguish the deserving from the undeserving. Most studies rely on proxy variables rather than measuring deservingness criteria directly. We propose and validate a new instrume...

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Published in:Journal of immigrant & refugee studies 2024-10, Vol.22 (4), p.920-937
Main Authors: De Coninck, David, Duque, Maria, Schwartz, Seth J., Matthijs, Koen, Van Bavel, Jan, d'Haenens, Leen
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
construct validity
Criteria
Measures
Migrant deservingness
Migrants
migration
outgroup attitudes
Social policy
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Summary:According to social policy literature, people utilize five criteria - Control, Attitude, Reciprocity, Identity, Need - to distinguish the deserving from the undeserving. Most studies rely on proxy variables rather than measuring deservingness criteria directly. We propose and validate a new instrument - the Migrant Deservingness Scale - that captures these criteria. We analyze data from an online survey in seven European countries, the U.S., and Colombia (N = 13,645) to test the scale's dimensionality and validity. Findings indicate that all criteria can be captured with the scale, and that they are linked with host nationals' sociodemographic characteristics and anti-migrant attitudes.
ISSN:1556-2948
1556-2956
DOI:10.1080/15562948.2022.2161686