Shaping Immigration Attitudes: The Role of Human Values, Media Engagement and Sociopolitical Events Among European Managers

Hamed Ahmadinia

doi:10.33134/njmr.964

Shaping Immigration Attitudes: The Role of Human Values, Media Engagement and Sociopolitical Events Among European Managers

Nordic Journal of Migration Research

Volume 16 (2026): Issue 1

By: Hamed Ahmadinia

Open Access

|Nov 2025

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