Immigration has become 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 parties in France … immigration flows by past settlement patterns in 1968. We find that immigration increases support for far-right candidates and has …

Immigration has become 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 … immigration flows by past settlement patterns in 1968. We find that immigration increases support for far-right candidates and has …

international trade, a series of recent empirical econometric studies show that immigration has contributed to the rise of extreme … immigration and that of extreme right-wing parties. Exploiting French presidential elections from 1988 to 2017, we show that the … positive impact of immigration on votes for extreme right-wing parties is driven by low-skilled immigration and immigration …

of the participants with five statistics about immigration, before evaluating their attitude towards immigrants with self …, although it does not change people's policy preferences regarding immigration. Republicans become more willing to increase … legal immigration after receiving the information treatment. Finally, we also measure the same self-reported policy …

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 …

immigration lead to higher bridging identity in the population; and, for a given immigration target, social segregation is … decreasing in the time allowed for achieving this target. If the level and pace of immigration are attuned to existing levels of …

We analyze whether (correct) information provision on immigration is more effective than contact in shaping attitudes … towards immigration. We collect data from a randomized experiment in 18 middle- and high-school classes in the city of Rome … immigration in Italy and the world. On average, students develop better attitudes towards immigration (especially in the case of …