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 …

This paper examines evidence on the role of assimilation versus source country culture in influencing immigrant women …

This paper examines evidence on the role of assimilation versus source country culture in influencing immigrant women … to distinguish the effect of culture from that of social capital. These results support a growing literature that … suggests that culture matters for economic behavior. At the same time, the results suggest considerable evidence of …

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 …

We test the relationship between historical immigration to the United States and political ideology today. We … with the hypothesis that immigration left its footprint on American ideology via cultural transmission from immigrants to …

This research empirically establishes the hypothesis that the process of population aging in a society as a whole … affects the attitudes of its members towards immigration. Hence, an aging social environment exerts an effect on the attitudes … of individuals towards immigration after accounting for their age and other individual characteristics. We test this …