Panel discussion: Looking behind the culture of fear

Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung Budapest is organizing the study launch 'Looking behind the culture of fear: Cross-national analysis of attitudes towards migration’.
Date: 2th March 2018, 10 a.m.
Venue: Kossuth Klub, 1088 Budapest, Múzeum u 7.
Fear and rejection of migrants and foreigners is so widespread in some European countries that it can be seen as a socially shared norm, while in other countries acceptance of migrants and ethno-racial diversity is a widely-shared value. With the recent wave of mass migration, these dissimilarities in attitudes have moved to the forefront of public discussion, and there is consequently a need for a deeper understanding of cross-national differences.
In order to contribute to this debate, the study „Looking behind the culture of fear” by Vera Messing and Bence Ságvári investigates potential factors behind country-specific patterns of anti-migrant attitudes in European countries. The presentation will be followed by a panel discussion with experts from Italy, Poland, Germany and Hungary on the topic.

The study is going to be commented by:

James Dennison, Head of the Observatory of Public Attitudes to Migration (OPAM), Migration Policy Centre, Florence
Mikolaj Pawlak, Head of Research, Institute of Social Prevention and Resocialisation, University of Warsaw
Bori Simonovits, Senior Research Fellow, TÁRKI Social Research Institute, Budapest