Because of the study's cause-and-effect element, public opinion served as the independent variable and immigration policy as the dependent policy. The study measured public opinion using public opinion surveys previously conducted by the research institutes of The World Value Survey and Latinobarómetro Corporation. These changes, along with others, increased the salience of the issue and caused public opinion to become a growing influence on national immigration policy in the country of Chile.
This return triggered significant changes in the political, economic and social spheres of the country. World War I resulted in the end of the already selective promotion of immigration by the Chilean government due to fear of the impact of refugees on the country11. Similar to the experiences of Arab immigrants before them, these refugees were not welcomed by the Chilean people and government.
As previously mentioned, this study analyzes the potential influence that Chilean public opinion has on the development of the country's national immigration policy. The selection of Chile during the 21st century represents an interesting choice in the analysis of the relationship between public opinion and immigration. These policies became canonized in the national immigration policy of the nation in several years throughout the time frame of this study.
Student visa applies to immigrants who are allowed to come to the country for the purpose of furthering their education at educational institutions of the state or recognized by the Chilean government.
The Relationship Between Chilean Public Opinion and Immigration Policy
A majority of 61.9% of the total Chilean population agreed or strongly agreed that immigrants come to Chile to complete Chilean jobs. However, a majority of 44.1% of the total Chilean population disagreed or extremely disagreed that the national government. Information from opinion polls conducted in 2004 revealed a potentially indifferent attitude of the Chilean public towards immigrants.
In addition, 10.7% of the Chilean population cited immigrants or foreign workers as an undesirable neighbor. A majority of 81.6% of the Chilean population believed that employers should give priority to Chileans over immigrants. Also, a small percentage of 1.8% of the population felt untreated by Chile because they were immigrants.
Public opinion polls in 2005 showed a continuation of the indifference of the Chilean attitude towards immigration. In addition, 50.3% of the total Chilean population also classified the conflict between Chileans and immigrants as strong or very strong. 1 914 called the Cooperation Agreement between the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of the Interior.
On 28 December 2009, the Ministry of the Interior and the National Juvenile Service signed Exemption Resolution No. 10,654 called the Agreement on Cooperation between the Ministry of the Interior and the National Juvenile Service. A combined percentage of 62.8% of the total Chilean population agreed or strongly agreed that immigrants come to Chile to compete for job positions.
Furthermore, a majority of 45.8% of the total population classified the conflict between Chileans and immigrants as strong or very strong. Moreover, 52.5% of the total population agreed or strongly agreed that immigrants come to the country to compete for jobs. A 2014 public opinion survey found that the Chilean public has mixed attitudes toward immigration.
Public opinion polls conducted in 2015 revealed a more ambivalent attitude of the Chilean public towards immigration. A majority of 52.5% of the Chilean population agreed or strongly agreed that immigrants come to Chile to compete for jobs.
The Saliency of Immigration in Chilean Society
This makes calculating immigration's salience for the majority of contemporary years improbable. From the available information, immigration has had a low level of salience for the majority of the contemporary period. However, salience appears to have gradually increased in the latter years of the modern period.
A small 0.8% of the entire population believed that other problems besides those mentioned in the conducted surveys represent the most important problem in the country73. Therefore, assuming that this 0.5% of the population considered immigrants to be the most discriminated group, only 3.2% of the rest of the total Chilean population. In 2003, public opinion changed and visibility measurements showed that the majority of the Chilean population considered low wages, unemployment and crime to be the most important problems77.
However, it can be deduced that the percentage of the Chilean population that considered immigration exclusively as the most important issue was less than 0.8% of the population. According to public opinion polls, only 1.8% of the Chilean population felt that Chile treated them unfairly mainly because they were immigrants. However, according to the OECD, the foreign-born population constituted 1.46% of the total Chilean population78.
According to the obtained information, 2.9% of the entire population of Chile viewed topics that were not mentioned in the surveys79. According to public opinion polls, 3.8% of the entire population rated other issues not listed in the polls as the most important issue facing the country82. Public opinion surveys have shown that the share of the entire population who consider other issues to be the most important has increased to 5.6%84.
Public opinion did change on the most important issue, and the majority of the Chilean population considered unemployment, crime and income distribution to be the most important issues plaguing the country85. The data revealed that the percentage of the total population who considered other issues not listed on the survey to be the most important issue increased from 1.7% in 200987 to 11.9% in 201588. Although the study cannot determine whether any of this percentage of members of the Chilean population who considered immigration to be the most important issue, it can be inferred that the salience of immigration may have increased significantly from 2000.
The Influence of International Organizations on the Development of Chilean
We are all school.” In addition to helping ease the children of immigrants into the Chilean education system, this policy also served to help uphold the obligations Chile agreed to under the human rights treaty called the United Nations Conventions on the Rights of the Child. On March 10, 2008, the Chilean Ministry of the Interior and the Ministry of Health signed Extraordinary Resolution No. But politicians also created this policy as a way to fulfill obligations that Chile has entered into under the Conventions on the Rights of the Child.
The government can also simply use the norms of the international community as inspiration for shaping immigration policy to show the world that Chile has emerged as an equal and democratic country after thirteen years of oppressive authoritarian rule. Overall, public opinion has historically not influenced the development of immigration policy in the country. This lack of influence could possibly be due to a lack of salience of the issue among the Chilean public.
First, the patterns of immigration flow into the country before 2010 represented a combination of ethnic, cultural and occupational background that had become normalized in the Chilean public; Therefore, the Chilean population did not register immigration as a threat to their culture or their economic security and did not see it as one of the most important issues affecting the country. Second, a series of internal social movements and crises seem to have dominated much of Chile's contemporary history. These events have dwarfed any prominent potential immigration may have had and have made immigration an almost invisible issue in the eyes of the Chilean public.
Because immigration was of such low importance among the Chilean people, other forces such as international organizations had the space to become influential actors in the development of the country's immigration policy. Consistent with theories about policy responsiveness and issue salience, the increased influence of public opinion may be the result of an increase in the importance of the issue among the Chilean public in recent years. It has resulted in an exponential increase in the number of immigrants coming to the country and a continuous and increasing diversification of the origin of immigrants, who.
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To what extent do you think Chile should allow foreigners of the same racial/ethnic group as the majority of Chileans. Which of the following things do you think are necessary to feel part of the society in which you live?