Elites, Media, and Immigration Opinion

Session Submission Type: Full Paper Panel

Session Description

How does information about immigrants and immigration policy, dispersed particularly through political rhetoric and media coverage, influence immigration opinion? In the current global context, where issues like the pandemic, conflicts, and climate change are prominent, immigration has become a salient topic. Despite the heightened significance, many countries have adopted increasingly restrictive immigration stances, contributing to an environment where individuals may be susceptible to misinformation and negative stereotypes about immigrants. This panel contributes to the ongoing discourse on immigration by investigating how information–particularly that disseminated by elites and the media regarding other immigrant groups, relationships between countries, and immigration policies–influences public attitudes toward immigration.

Sub Unit

• Division 52: Migration & Citizenship

Individual Presentations

• Media Narratives and the Life Cycle of Immigration Public Opinion - Alexander Tripp, Vanderbilt University

• Computational Analysis of Congressional Speeches on Immigration in South Korea - Boyoon Lee, Vanderbilt University; Taegyoon Kim, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology; Seungwoo Han

• Better or Worse by Comparison: How Immigrant Group Salience Affects Evaluations - Reed Rasband, Harvard University

• Reciprocity and Competition in Migration Public Opinion - Alexander Kustov, University of North Carolina at Charlotte; Michelangelo Landgrave, University of Colorado

• Immigration, Race, and "Woke": Comparing the US and the UK - A. Maurits van der Veen, College of William & Mary; Erik J. Bleich, Middlebury College

Chair

• Claire Leslie Adida UCSD

Discussants

• Ala Alrababah Bocconi University

• Eunji Kim Columbia University