With the so-called ‘long summer of migration’ of 2015, there was an urgent need to accommodate many refugees in Germany. This situation was framed as a ‘refugee reception crisis’, and it revealed diametrically opposed stances within German society. Within this debate, anti-refugee sentiment is often explained with the placement of nearby refugee reception facilities. Conclusive evidence of this claim is yet missing. Most studies dealing with refugee immigration and attitudes toward refugees lack of appropriate geo-data to test this assumption. We fill this empirical gap by employing novel data on refugee reception facilities in Germany, including exact geo-location, and combine it with the geo-locations of households participating in the German Socio-Economic Panel. Drawing on group threat and contact theory, we report a solid null effect and conclude that the placement of reception facilities does not influence locals’ attitudes toward refugees.

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靠近难民住所不会影响当地人对难民的态度：来自德国的证据

随着 2015 年所谓的“移民长夏”，德国急需安置许多难民。这种情况被定性为“难民接收危机”，它揭示了德国社会内部截然相反的立场。在这场辩论中，反难民情绪通常用附近难民接待设施的布置来解释。这一说法的确凿证据尚不存在。大多数关于难民移民和对难民态度的研究都缺乏适当的地理数据来检验这一假设。我们通过使用有关德国难民接待设施的新数据（包括确切的地理位置）来填补这一经验空白，并将其与参与德国社会经济小组的家庭的地理位置相结合。借鉴群体威胁和接触理论，