on immigration issues in national referendums and are less supportive of redistribution than before hosting asylum …

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 policy over the last decade. Unlike previous studies, I analyze the evolution over time of these two types of … essentially on how immigration is perceived to affect wages and net welfare benefits. Specifically, I find that, when immigrants …

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 …

Immigration is one of the most divisive political issues in many countries today. Competing narratives, circulated via …

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. …