Intergroup contact (i.e. personal encounters with and presence of immigrants) has frequently been related to improved immigration attitudes among the national majority. The impact of ideological climates, in turn, has received scant attention. Drawing on the notion of deprovincialization, we argue that, in proximal geographical contexts, contact with immigrants as well as progressive (vs conservative) ideological climates engender a reappraisal of national ingroup boundaries by attenuating ethnic views of nationhood. As expected, multilevel regression analyses with the Swiss ISSP 2013 data (N = 1019 Swiss respondents living in 136 districts) revealed that personal encounters with immigrants related to reduced ethnic boundary making. Importantly, on the district level, immigrant presence buffered the impact of conservative ideological climates.

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从族群边界划分到去省域化：移民存在与意识形态气候的相互作用

群体间接触（即与移民的个人接触和存在）经常与全国大多数人的移民态度改善有关。反过来，意识形态气候的影响却很少受到关注。借鉴去省化的概念，我们认为，在最近的地理环境中，与移民的接触以及进步的（与保守的）意识形态气候通过削弱民族对民族的看法而导致对民族内群体边界的重新评估。正如预期的那样，对瑞士 ISSP 2013 数据（N = 1019 名居住在 136 个地区的瑞士受访者）进行的多级回归分析显示，与移民的个人接触与减少种族界限有关。重要的是，在地区层面，移民的存在缓冲了保守意识形态气候的影响。