Levada Center on xenophobia in 2020

The Levada Center has published the results of its annual survey of xenophobic attitudes among Russians.

On September 23, 2020, the Levada Center published the results of its traditional nationwide survey of xenophobic attitudes among Russians. This year it took place on August 20-26 - sociologists conducted personal interviews with 1,601 people over 18 in 137 settlements of 50 subjects of Russia.

The first block of the study concerns the social distance that respondents consider acceptable when interacting with different ethnic, cultural and racial groups identified by the survey authors. The least “undesirable” groups turned out to be Jews and Ukrainians — it is with them that the respondents are, on average, more willing to form friendships, families, workers, and so on. connections. The most "undesirable" were the gypsies, as well as dark-skinned people and people from Central Asia. This distribution coincides with that obtained by the researchers last year.

However, while the desire to distance themselves from Jews, Ukrainians, and Gypsies has increased slightly, it has, on the contrary, decreased from blacks, immigrants from Central Asia, and the Chinese.

The second block of the study is devoted to migrantophobia. 73% of respondents in 2020 believe that the influx of labor migrants to Russia should be limited, and 11% that it should be encouraged. These figures are slightly different from last year's data.

The third block of the study is the traditionally asked question about how respondents feel about the idea of ​​“Russia for Russians”. 19% of respondents who unambiguously supported it this year made up 4% less than last year. 32% of respondents believe that the idea should be implemented "within reasonable limits" - the same number as a year ago. 29% reacted negatively to this idea, up 2% compared to last year.

Sources

• Xenophobia and nationalism // Levada Center. 2020. September 23.