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 …

Immigration is a crucial issue in contemporary politics, and attitudes towards immigration are highly dispersed in many … countries. We treat individuals' immigration friendliness (IF) as a feature of their self-image or identity and hypothesize that …, similar to other pro-social self-images, greater immigration friendliness is associated with greater subjective well …

Previous studies on the determinants of attitudes toward immigration can be classified into those that take a … utilitarian perspective, focusing on individuals’ perceptions of real-world impacts of immigration, and those that look at … immigration attitudes from the point of view of ideological orientation, focusing on broad political norms and values. While …

Irish attitudes to immigration is of more than parochial interest. In this paper we use the six rounds of the European …

We combine community-level outcomes of 27 votes about immigration issues in Switzerland with census data to estimate … the effect of immigration on natives' attitudes towards immigration. We apply an instrumental variable approach to take … anti-immigration votes, while the presence of culturally similar immigrants does not affect natives' voting behavior at all …

This paper investigates the effect of media coverage on immigration attitudes. It combines data on immigration coverage … and attitudes toward immigration. The analysis focuses on within-individual variations over time, addressing ideological … self-selection into channels. We find that increased coverage of immigration polarizes attitudes, with initially moderate …

their opposition to future immigration. In turn, an open-minded and tolerant attitude promotes mutual trust and solidarity … natives' support for redistribution, with attitudes towards immigrants and immigration acting as mediators. By applying … losing intangible goods triggered by immigration is substantial in the formation of natives' socio-political attitudes …