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The claim of the Welsh government that Wales had a proud history of welcoming migrants has been questioned by a new study.
Social scientists in Bangor have been crunching numbers, admittedly small numbers, gathered by a series of surveys over a four year span.
It shows that a larger percentage of people in Wales have a negative view on immigration than in Scotland, Northern Ireland or parts of south-east England and London.
In fact, the suggestion in the research by Wiserd, the Wales Institute of Social and Economic Data and Methods was that Wales shared similar and more negative views, with neighbours in the English Midlands and the north of England.
Co author of the report Dr Robin Mann explained that there seemed to be a trend whereby, on the one hand Wales, the Midlands and northern England felt there needed to be lesser support to immigration and relatively more negative views upon the impact of immigration.
There seemed to be a different pattern when it came to London, Scotland and indeed Northern Ireland, where support for reducing immigration was not so high and also the impact of immigration seem to be a little more favourable.
Dr Mann added that one might have expected Wales and Scotland to be similar but It went as a surprise, that Wales seemed more similar to the majority of England than it does to Scotland.
It is the first time that such data has been forensically analysed in a bid to get a clearer picture of attitudes to immigration in Wales.
The figures have been gleaned from two different surveys, carried out at a European level and in England and Wales between 2008 and 2010.
But the analysis has its drawback too as it has been done with smaller sample sizes for comparisons.
For example, the European Social Survey covers 30 countries - so the data for those questioned in Wales is tiny - about 130 people were quizzed.
But the report authors insist that they are valid measures of attitude, especially as the surveys were repeated at two year intervals.