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 examine a little-known restriction on high-skill immigration to the United States, the Exchange Visitor Skills List …

How did the large asylum-seeker inflow to Germany in 2015 affect concerns about immigration? Using individual …-level panel data for the years 2012–2018, I show that after 2015 concerns about immigration increased by about 21 pp. and support … line with the contact hypothesis, living in a high refugee migration district reduced concerns about immigration by 3 pp …

Immigration policies in western democracies have often been contrary to the policies predicted by the mainstream theory … defection from worker-supported political-establishment parties to new-entrant anti-immigration political candidates and parties …