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Taking back control? Investigating the role of immigration in the 2016 vote for Brexit Open
The 2016 referendum marked a watershed moment in the history of the United Kingdom. The public vote to leave the European Union (EU)—for a ‘Brexit’—brought an end to the country’s membership of the EU and set it on a fundamentally differen…
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Refugee Migration and Electoral Outcomes Open
To estimate the causal effect of refugee migration on voting outcomes in parliamentary and municipal elections in Denmark, our study is the first that addresses the key problem of immigrant sorting by exploiting a policy that assigned refu…
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Immigration and Crime: Assessing a Contentious Issue Open
Are immigration and crime related? This review addresses this question in order to build a deeper understanding of the immigration-crime relationship. We synthesize the recent generation (1994 to 2014) of immigration-crime research focused…
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Immigration and electoral support for the far-left and the far-right Open
Immigration is one of the most divisive political issues in the United States, the United Kingdom, France, and several other Western countries. We estimate the impact of immigration on voting for far-left and far-right candidates in France…
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Politicizing immigration in Western Europe Open
Immigration has become a hot topic in West European politics. The factors responsible for the intensification of political conflict on this issue are a matter of considerable controversy. This holds in particular for the role of socio-econ…
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Immigration, Euroscepticism, and the rise and fall of UKIP Open
This article presents a case study of the emergence of the issue-linkage necessary for a cross-cutting European Union cleavage to become electorally salient. We argue that a key political decision on immigration in 2004 facilitated the eme…
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The Gravity of High-Skilled Migration Policies Open
Combining unique, annual, bilateral data on labor flows of highly skilled immigrants for 10 OECD destinations between 2000 and 2012, with new databases comprising both unilateral and bilateral policy instruments, we present the first judic…
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Fear by Association: Perceptions of Anti-Immigrant Policy and Health Outcomes Open
The United States is experiencing a renewed period of immigration and immigrant policy activity as well as heightened enforcement of such policies. This intensified activity can affect various aspects of immigrant health, including mental …
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The “migrant with poor prospects”: racialized intersections of class and culture in Dutch civic integration debates Open
The recent trend towards selective immigration policies is based on the racialization of certain categories of migrants into irretrievably unassimilable Others. In Europe, this trend has materialized largely through the application of inte…
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Population aging, migration, and productivity in Europe Open
Significance Migration is one of the most controversial political topics in industrialized countries. One important aspect is population aging and the prospects of a shrinking labor force in case of low or no immigration. We address this a…
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Discrimination in migration and citizenship Open
After decades of scholarly optimism that the immigration reforms that swept across the Global North in the postwar era had ushered in a new age of non-discriminatory migration policy, recent scholarship has challenged this narrative. This …
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A hot topic? Immigration on the agenda in Western Europe Open
The party politics of immigration is one of the fastest growing bodies of research within the study of West European politics. Within this literature, an underlying assumption is that immigration has become one of the most salient issues. …
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Structural Racism and Immigrant Health in the United States Open
Immigration has been historically and contemporarily racialized in the United States. Although each immigrant group has unique histories, current patterns, and specific experiences, racialized immigrant groups such as Latino, Asian, and Ar…
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Latinos’ deportation fears by citizenship and legal status, 2007 to 2018 Open
Deportation has become more commonplace in the United States since the mid-2000s. Latin American noncitizens—encompassing undocumented and documented immigrants—are targeted for deportation. Deportation’s threat also reaches naturalized an…
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Towards a new politics of migration? Open
This paper reconsiders Stephen Castle’s classic paper Why Migration Policies Fail. Beginning with the so-called migration crisis of 2015 it considers the role of numbers is assessing success or failure. It argues that in the UK public deba…
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Immigration, political trust, and Brexit – Testing an aversion amplification hypothesis Open
A few weeks prior to the EU referendum (23rd June 2016) two broadly representative samples of the electorate were drawn in Kent (the south‐east of England, N = 1,001) and Scotland ( N = 1,088) for online surveys that measured their trust i…
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Parties’ policy adjustments in response to changes in issue saliency Open
A number of studies have investigated when parties change their policy positions. However, this growing body of research has had limited interaction with the literature on issue competition. To bring these two perspectives together, this a…
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“We Are a Small Country That Has Done Enormously Lot”: The ‘Refugee Crisis’ and the Hybrid Discourse of Politicizing Immigration in Sweden Open
This article looks at mainstream political discourses about immigration in Sweden during the recent "refugee crisis". It argues that different patterns of politicization of immigration have traditionally dominated in Sweden and focuses on …
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To Be Both (and More): Immigration and Identity Multiplicity Open
Immigrants and their descendants make up a growing share of the population in countries across Europe, North America, and Oceania. This large‐scale immigration challenges once relatively stable notions of ethnic, national (or regional), an…
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Variation in policy success: radical right populism and migration policy Open
How do radical right populist parties influence government policies in their core issue of immigration? This article provides a systematic analysis of the direct and indirect effects of radical right anti-immigration parties on migration p…
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The Place Premium: Bounding the Price Equivalent of Migration Barriers Open
Large international differences in the price of labor can be sustained by differences between workers or by natural and policy barriers to worker mobility. We use migrant selection theory and evidence to place lower bounds on the ad valore…
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Asylum Migration to the Developed World: Persecution, Incentives, and Policy Open
The European migration crisis of 2015–2016 and the migrants from Central America gathering on the US border since 2017 have created headlines and presented challenges for Western governments. In this paper, I examine the trends in, and det…
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Beyond venue shopping and liberal constraint: a new research agenda for EU migration policies and politics Open
European Union (EU) asylum and immigration politics and policies have witnessed a major change since their communitarization in the early 2000s. Studies on EU migration, however, do not agree on the impact that EU institutions now have on …
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Contested terrain: explaining divergent patterns of public opinion towards immigration within Europe Open
Mass immigration has become an enduring feature of open, integrated and dynamic economies, with most wealthy post-industrial societies experiencing large migration inflows in recent years (OECD 2017).At the same time, public opposition to …
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Adapting to party lines: the effect of party affiliation on attitudes to immigration Open
Public opinion on immigration is increasingly relevant for political behaviour. However, little is known about the way in which citizens’ political allegiances in turn shape their attitudes to immigration. Abundant existing evidence sugges…
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News Coverage and Public Concern About Immigration in Britain Open
This study investigates the causes of fluctuations in public concern about immigration and contends that issues emphasized in media coverage explain these fluctuations. Drawing on agenda-setting research and theories about issue attributes…
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Threatened or Threatening? How Ideology Shapes Asylum Seekers’ Immigration Policy Attitudes in Israel and Australia Open
Can different political ideologies explain policy preferences regarding asylum seekers? We focus on attitudes regarding governmental policy towards out-group members and suggest that perceptions of threat help to shape these policy attitud…
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The Dynamics of Return Migration, Human Capital Accumulation, and Wage Assimilation Open
This article develops and estimates a dynamic model where individuals differ in ability and location preference to evaluate the mechanisms that affect the evolution of immigrants’ careers in conjunction with their re-migration plans. Our a…
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Making America 1920 Again? Nativism and US Immigration, past and Present Open
This paper surveys the history of nativism in the United States from the late nineteenth century to the present. It compares a recent surge in nativism with earlier periods, particularly the decades leading up to the 1920s, when nativism d…
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Computational analysis of 140 years of US political speeches reveals more positive but increasingly polarized framing of immigration Open
We classify and analyze 200,000 US congressional speeches and 5,000 presidential communications related to immigration from 1880 to the present. Despite the salience of antiimmigration rhetoric today, we find that political speech about im…