The relationship between Public Opinion, Migration and Care Regimes: a Six Country Study

Abstract

The present study was conceived within the broader project ‘Caring Labour in a Migrating World’. As part of this scope, I analysed public opinions in six European countries (UK, the Netherlands, Germany, Austria, Spain and Portugal) in order to elaborate a further conceptualization and operationalisation of regimes intersections and to give an account of macro contexts of values and opinions towards migration and gender roles attitudes. In the present study I assumed that gender, care and migration regimes, as institutions, are correlated with people’s opinions in terms of ideals of caring, gendered roles and ideas on migration. For this purpose, I selected two attitudinal items from the ESS dataset as dependent variables, which represent migration and care regimes respectively and constitute two overall attitudes on migration and gender roles.