society actors. The book analyses existing informal groups at the grassroots, furthering transnational solidarity in three … thematic areas: disability, unemployment and immigration. Contributions assess how civic groups respond to the various crises … will be of interest to scholars, students, journalists, policy-makers and activists interested in civil society, social …

We review the growing literature on the political effects of immigration. After a brief summary of the economics of … immigration, we turn to the main focus of the paper: how immigrants influence electoral outcomes in receiving countries, and why …. We start from the "standard" view that immigration triggers political backlash and raises support for nativist, anti …

. While the mid-20th Century nationalist phase showed a drastic drop in immigration to almost zero, since the 1980s there has … been a return in both countries to regimes of relatively high immigration. Making this comparison highlights certain …

This paper reviews the evidence on the effects of less-skilled immigration to the U.S., and their implications for … immigration reform. It begins with a review of the costs of less-skilled immigration, in terms of competition to native …-born American workers; and the benefits of such immigration in the form of lower consumer prices, higher employer profits, and …

We investigate whether the dependence of immigrants on welfare benefits leads to opposition to further immigration by … natives lead to less favourable attitudes of natives towards immigration. Interestingly, we do not find similar stylised facts … for immigrants' attitudes towards immigration. …

This paper uses the first wave of Understanding Society, the UK Household Longitudinal Study (UKHLS), to assess whether … immigrants from different countries and arriving under different immigration policy regimes vary in their probability of over …-qualification. The results suggest that both country of origin (sending factor) and immigration policy (selecting factor) matter and that …