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Irish people’s level of support for immigrants is among the lowest in Europe.<\/p>\nIrish people’s level of support for immigrants is among the lowest in Europe.<\/p>\n
The ESRI have found 58% support white immigrants – but that drops to 41% for Muslims and 25% for Roma migrants.<\/p>\n
Those figures are lower than the average of 10 other European countries.<\/p>\n
The study found Irish-born people’s education, financial security and level of contact with other ethnic groups played a part.<\/p>\n
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The ESRI’s Helen Russell says the recession also had an impact on attitudes.<\/p>\n
She said: “We found that during the boom time attitudes towards immigration were becoming more favourable and then with the recession they dropped down.<\/p>\n
“When you compare it to other countries across Western Europe we actually then fell below the average so attitudes here were more negative.”<\/p>\n