@article{ART003189541},
author={Jihye Kam},
title={Cosmopolitanism and Exposure to Foreign Residents: Do Urbanites Have More Positive Attitudes toward Multiculturalism?},
journal={The Korea Spatial Planning Review},
issn={1229-8638},
year={2025},
volume={124},
pages={73-90},
doi={10.15793/kspr.2025.124..005}
TY - JOUR
AU - Jihye Kam
TI - Cosmopolitanism and Exposure to Foreign Residents: Do Urbanites Have More Positive Attitudes toward Multiculturalism?
JO - The Korea Spatial Planning Review
PY - 2025
VL - 124
IS - null
PB - 국토연구원
SP - 73
EP - 90
SN - 1229-8638
AB - As the number of foreign residents has increased, changes in natives’ attitudes towards multiculturalism have received scholarly attention in South Korea. This study estimates the differences in attitudes towards multiculturalism across metropolises, cities, and rural areas, and analyzes the mechanisms underlying these gaps. Consistent with earlier studies, multiculturalism was found to be significantly higher in cities and rural areas compared to metropolises. However, when controlling for interaction terms between dummies for cities and rural areas, the number of foreign residents, and the dummy for having immigrant neighbors, the direction of the estimates reversed, implying the opposite results. Unlike in metropolises and cities, in rural areas, attitudes towards multiculturalism became significantly higher as the number of foreign residents increased, especially when immigrant neighbors were not present. Since the choice of residence is legally protected for all, including foreign residents, this study suggests adjusting the level of exposure to positive or negative portrayals of foreign immigrants in local media as a potential policy tool to promote multiculturalism.
KW - Cosmopolitanism;Exposure to Multiculturalism;Immigrant Neighbors;the Number of Foreign Residents;Urban-Rural Gap
DO - 10.15793/kspr.2025.124..005
ER -
Jihye Kam. (2025). Cosmopolitanism and Exposure to Foreign Residents: Do Urbanites Have More Positive Attitudes toward Multiculturalism?. The Korea Spatial Planning Review, 124, 73-90.
Jihye Kam. 2025, "Cosmopolitanism and Exposure to Foreign Residents: Do Urbanites Have More Positive Attitudes toward Multiculturalism?", The Korea Spatial Planning Review, vol.124, pp.73-90. Available from: doi:10.15793/kspr.2025.124..005
Jihye Kam "Cosmopolitanism and Exposure to Foreign Residents: Do Urbanites Have More Positive Attitudes toward Multiculturalism?" The Korea Spatial Planning Review 124 pp.73-90 (2025) : 73.
Jihye Kam. Cosmopolitanism and Exposure to Foreign Residents: Do Urbanites Have More Positive Attitudes toward Multiculturalism?. 2025; 124 73-90. Available from: doi:10.15793/kspr.2025.124..005
Jihye Kam. "Cosmopolitanism and Exposure to Foreign Residents: Do Urbanites Have More Positive Attitudes toward Multiculturalism?" The Korea Spatial Planning Review 124(2025) : 73-90.doi: 10.15793/kspr.2025.124..005
Jihye Kam. Cosmopolitanism and Exposure to Foreign Residents: Do Urbanites Have More Positive Attitudes toward Multiculturalism?. The Korea Spatial Planning Review, 124, 73-90. doi: 10.15793/kspr.2025.124..005
Jihye Kam. Cosmopolitanism and Exposure to Foreign Residents: Do Urbanites Have More Positive Attitudes toward Multiculturalism?. The Korea Spatial Planning Review. 2025; 124 73-90. doi: 10.15793/kspr.2025.124..005
Jihye Kam. Cosmopolitanism and Exposure to Foreign Residents: Do Urbanites Have More Positive Attitudes toward Multiculturalism?. 2025; 124 73-90. Available from: doi:10.15793/kspr.2025.124..005
Jihye Kam. "Cosmopolitanism and Exposure to Foreign Residents: Do Urbanites Have More Positive Attitudes toward Multiculturalism?" The Korea Spatial Planning Review 124(2025) : 73-90.doi: 10.15793/kspr.2025.124..005
