How Welcome are Overseas Workers Abroad?
This was taken from the column, Social Climate of Dr. Mahar Mangahas (of the Social Weather Station) in the Philippine Daily Inquirer published on July 12, 2008.
These are the results of a survey on the attitudes in 19 destination countries about immigrants. This was conducted by the International Social Survey Program on National Identity in 2003.
There were four survey items which tried to gauge the openness of the citizens of a country to the entry of foreign nationals.
1. Are immigrants appreciated?
Survey Statement: Immigrants are generally good for the country's economy.
A positive reply is favorable to the immigrants.
Appreciated
Canada +48
New Zealand +43
South Korea +37
Spain +31
Portugal +31
Switzerland +29
Sweden +22
USA +20
Japan +9
Israel +6
Philippines +15
Un-appreciated
| Norway -1 (statistically neutral) |
| Slovenia -4 (statistically neutral) |
| Taiwan - 5 (statistically neutral) |
| France -10 |
| Germany -12 |
| Denmark -14 |
| UK -19 |
| Finland -22 |
Survey Statement: Immigrants take away jobs from the nationals.
Negative response - favorable to immigrants; positive response - unfavorable to immigrants.
| Not Resented (-) |
| Switzerland -48 |
| Denmark -48 |
| Norway -45 |
| France -26 |
| South Korea -24 |
| Canada -22 |
| Finland -18 |
| Japan -14 |
| New Zealand -5 |
Resented (+)
| Taiwan +70 |
| Israel +43 |
| Portugal +21 |
| Germany +19 |
| Slovenia +17 |
| UK +15 |
| USA +9 |
| Ireland +2 |
| Philippines +18 |
3. Do immigrants make people feel unsafe?
Survey Statement: Immigrants increase crime rates.
Negative response - favorable to immigrants; positive response - unfavorable to immigrants
Local nationals dissociate crimes from immigrants (-)
| Canada -19 |
| USA -17 |
| New Zealand -6 |
| South Korea -5 |
| Ireland -5 |
| Philippines -13 |
Local nationals associate crimes with immigrants (+)
| Norway +71 |
| Japan +60 |
| Denmark +55 |
| Germany +46 |
| Israel +45 |
| Taiwan +39 |
| Sweden +37 |
| Spain +33 |
| Switzerland +32 |
| Portugal +30 |
| Slovenia +27 |
| Finland +26 |
| UK +12 |
| France +7 |
4. Who wants additional immigrants?
Survey statement: Do you think the number of immigrants in your country nowadays should be increased a lot, increased a little, or reduced a lot?
Response is negative everywhere.
Ranking from the least opposed to increasing the number to the most opposed:
| Canada -3 |
| Finland -9 |
| South Korea -10 |
| Japan -32 |
| Switzerland -37 |
| Denmark -38 |
| New Zealand -38 |
| Spain -39 |
| Sweden -41 |
| USA -41 |
| Israel -44 |
| Slovenia -46 |
| Ireland -47 |
| Portugal -48 |
| France -50 |
| Norway -59 |
| Taiwan -62 |
| Germany -64 |
| UK -67 |
| Philippines -20 |
The results refer to attitudes of the citizens of the countries, not the official attitudes of their governments, and it is with the citizens that the immigrants interact with.
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