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Us and them. Is the COVID-19 pandemic a driver for xenophobia in land transactions in Romania?
COVID-19 is a humanitarian challenge that puts a spotlight on the need to understand the new provocations and how to prevent the escalation of different types of conflict. The present contribution gravitates around three major problems – foreign land grab, COVID-19 pandemic, and xenophobia. To the a...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9756754/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36540345 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2021.105284 |
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author | Petrescu-Mag, Ruxandra Malina Petrescu, Dacinia Crina Todoran, Silviu Ciprian Petrescu-Mag, Ioan Valentin |
author_facet | Petrescu-Mag, Ruxandra Malina Petrescu, Dacinia Crina Todoran, Silviu Ciprian Petrescu-Mag, Ioan Valentin |
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description | COVID-19 is a humanitarian challenge that puts a spotlight on the need to understand the new provocations and how to prevent the escalation of different types of conflict. The present contribution gravitates around three major problems – foreign land grab, COVID-19 pandemic, and xenophobia. To the authors’ best knowledge, this is the first study that investigates how COVID-19 has influenced the xenophobia feelings and the perceptions on foreign land acquisitions. Therefore, one objective is to investigate Romanian landowners’ attitudes toward land grabbing effects, consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic, and xenophobia. Another objective is to reveal how well a set of variables could predict the preference for the nationality of the buyer in land transactions. The binary logistic regression indicates that the preference for the nationality of the buyer in agricultural land transactions can be predicted by three variables. The effect of COVID-19 on population health is found to have a significant prediction power. Even if only a moderate to low level of xenophobia among the interviewed persons is present, when land is under discussion, negative judgments and feelings towards non-Romanian citizens emerge. Authors consider that correcting misperceptions can be achieved through information campaigns using messages that reinforce positives outcomes of foreign investments. The study provides empirical justification for regulations, law enforcement mechanisms, and information campaigns that should profoundly reflect and support the multicultural dynamics of the European societies. |
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spelling | pubmed-97567542022-12-16 Us and them. Is the COVID-19 pandemic a driver for xenophobia in land transactions in Romania? Petrescu-Mag, Ruxandra Malina Petrescu, Dacinia Crina Todoran, Silviu Ciprian Petrescu-Mag, Ioan Valentin Land use policy Article COVID-19 is a humanitarian challenge that puts a spotlight on the need to understand the new provocations and how to prevent the escalation of different types of conflict. The present contribution gravitates around three major problems – foreign land grab, COVID-19 pandemic, and xenophobia. To the authors’ best knowledge, this is the first study that investigates how COVID-19 has influenced the xenophobia feelings and the perceptions on foreign land acquisitions. Therefore, one objective is to investigate Romanian landowners’ attitudes toward land grabbing effects, consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic, and xenophobia. Another objective is to reveal how well a set of variables could predict the preference for the nationality of the buyer in land transactions. The binary logistic regression indicates that the preference for the nationality of the buyer in agricultural land transactions can be predicted by three variables. The effect of COVID-19 on population health is found to have a significant prediction power. Even if only a moderate to low level of xenophobia among the interviewed persons is present, when land is under discussion, negative judgments and feelings towards non-Romanian citizens emerge. Authors consider that correcting misperceptions can be achieved through information campaigns using messages that reinforce positives outcomes of foreign investments. The study provides empirical justification for regulations, law enforcement mechanisms, and information campaigns that should profoundly reflect and support the multicultural dynamics of the European societies. Elsevier Ltd. 2021-04 2021-02-05 /pmc/articles/PMC9756754/ /pubmed/36540345 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2021.105284 Text en © 2021 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active. |
spellingShingle | Article Petrescu-Mag, Ruxandra Malina Petrescu, Dacinia Crina Todoran, Silviu Ciprian Petrescu-Mag, Ioan Valentin Us and them. Is the COVID-19 pandemic a driver for xenophobia in land transactions in Romania? |
title | Us and them. Is the COVID-19 pandemic a driver for xenophobia in land transactions in Romania? |
title_full | Us and them. Is the COVID-19 pandemic a driver for xenophobia in land transactions in Romania? |
title_fullStr | Us and them. Is the COVID-19 pandemic a driver for xenophobia in land transactions in Romania? |
title_full_unstemmed | Us and them. Is the COVID-19 pandemic a driver for xenophobia in land transactions in Romania? |
title_short | Us and them. Is the COVID-19 pandemic a driver for xenophobia in land transactions in Romania? |
title_sort | us and them. is the covid-19 pandemic a driver for xenophobia in land transactions in romania? |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9756754/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36540345 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2021.105284 |
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