RÖSTAR INVANDRINGSKRITISKA INVANDRARE OCKSÅ PÅ INVANDRINGSKRITISKA PARTIER? En kvantitativ studie av personer med invandrarbakgrunds röstning invandringskritiska partier

Abstract

Standard explanations of voting behavior of people with immigrant background and anti immigrant sentiments would predict people with an immigrant background to not vote for anti-immigration parties. However, this does not seem to be the case. This thesis examines if people with an immigrant background vote for anti-immigrant parties if they have anti immigrant sentiment. With data from the 2022 VALU questionnaire from the Swedish national election, results from linear and logistic regression show that people with an immigrant background in Sweden who has anti-immigrant sentiments have a much higher probability of voting for the anti-immigrant party in Sweden. The results also indicate that people with immigrant background from non-European countries are less likely to vote for the anti-immigration party, although this finding is less robust. This gives a unique new contribution to prior research about immigrant’s voting behavior, which often have lacked perspectives on immigrants that vote for anti-immigrant parties.