Additional tests allow us to rule out alternative explanations for our findings, such as the different salience of the war in Ukraine and the migratory processes from Africa during the study period, the potentially different perceptions of the needs of refugees according to their provenance, and the expected duration of refugees’ stay abroad from their home country. [...] Additionally, the impact of emphasizing the role of the EU could vary depending on the perceived social or cultural distance between the in-group and the out-groups. [...] 3.2.2 Interpreting the choice of how to donate To better understand how respondents perceive cash donations, we perform textual analyses of the answers to one of the two open-ended questions in the survey, the one that asked respondents to list possible uses that the receiver would make of the cash received (for respondents who decided not to donate in cash, we asked them to indicate how they expe. [...] After the donation request, we asked participants their opinions about the implications of a stronger involvement of the EU in the domain of immigration and refugee policies for the influx of foreigners into 16 Italy and the rest of Europe. [...] 10The figure shows the Google Trends results from querying the Italian-equivalent expressions of “Ukrainian refugees” and “disembarkation,” the word used to signify the arrivals of immigrants from the Mediterranean Sea on Italian coasts, in 2022 and 2023, with the indication of relevant dates: the beginning of the Russian military invasion of Ukraine, the peak in refugee arrivals via the Mediterra.
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