Scholars have taken a considerable interest in how global immigration to Europe generates public concern, but we still know little about the role that migration from within the European region has in fueling apprehensions. To better understand this, I examine how public attitudes towards immigration have responded to migration following the European Union’s most extensive enlargement along its eastern border in 2004. Using recent advances in multilevel modeling, this article analyzes the longitudinal, cross-sectional relationship between east–west internal European migration on public attitudes towards the economic and cultural aspects of immigration in Western Europe using individual-level data from the European Social Survey (2004–2014). The results demonstrate that growing populations of Central and Eastern European foreigners have contributed to Western Europeans’ perception of immigration as an economic threat, even when taking into account simultaneous immigration from outside Europe. Moreover, the relationship between east–west immigration and an individual’s perception of immigration as a threat is conditional upon their socio-economic status. These findings underscore how within-European immigration in Western Europe has become consequential to the public’s attitudes about immigration more generally.

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来自内部的威胁？在扩大的欧盟中对移民的看法

学者们对全球移民到欧洲如何引起公众关注产生了相当大的兴趣，但我们对来自欧洲地区的移民在加剧担忧方面所起的作用知之甚少。为了更好地理解这一点，我研究了 2004 年欧盟在其东部边界进行最广泛的扩大后，公众对移民的态度如何对移民做出反应。本文利用多层次建模的最新进展，分析了东部与欧洲之间的纵向、横截面关系。使用来自欧洲社会调查（2004-2014 年）的个人层面数据，研究西欧内部移民对西欧移民的经济和文化方面的公众态度。结果表明，不断增长的中欧和东欧外国人人口促使西欧人将移民视为经济威胁，即使考虑到同时来自欧洲以外的移民也是如此。此外，东西方移民与个人将移民视为威胁之间的关系取决于他们的社会经济地位。这些发现强调了西欧的欧洲内部移民如何影响公众对移民的普遍态度。东西向移民与个人将移民视为威胁之间的关系取决于他们的社会经济地位。这些发现强调了西欧的欧洲内部移民如何影响公众对移民的普遍态度。东西向移民与个人将移民视为威胁之间的关系取决于他们的社会经济地位。这些发现强调了西欧的欧洲内部移民如何影响公众对移民的普遍态度。