New Directions in Immigration Research

Session Submission Type: Full Paper Panel

Session Description

Cross-border immigration is increasing, generating concerns among native populations regarding the economic impact of immigration and cultural change that could result from integrating large numbers of culturally distant groups. Although migrants constitute a small percentage of the global population, more than 281 million people crossed borders in search of refuge from conflict or natural disasters, or in search of better opportunities in 2022. Migration flows have doubled since 1990 and international migration is part of an evolving process of globalization that inevitably forces societies to come to contact with distant others, while re-assessing who belongs where and what it means to share a national identity. Migration has benefits – in the form of satisfying unmet labor demand in “host” countries and providing stabilizing monetary flows to “sending” countries—but it also has costs (or benefits, depending on one’s viewpoint) in terms of impacting local cultures. Regional economic hubs – the United States, Europe, the Gulf, India, South Africa, and Australia – are top destination points that feel the costs and benefits of international immigration more strongly. Native populations in these hubs are facing intense pressures as they come to terms with the realities of integrating migrants. Our panel identifies new directions for immigration research and presents novel empirical approaches to enrich our understanding of intergroup conflict between native and immigrant populations.

Sub Unit

• Division 52: Migration & Citizenship

Chair

• Nicholas Sambanis Yale University

Discussants

• Daniel J. Hopkins University of Pennsylvania

• Marc Helbling University of Mannheim

Individual Presentations

• Norm Hierarchies, Good Citizenship, and Native-Immigrant Conflict in Europe - Nicholas Sambanis, Yale University; Krzysztof Krakowski, King’s College London; Eleni Kyrkopoulou, Yale University

• Lasting Effects of Transient Exposure to the Greek Refugee Crisis - Nicholas Sambanis, Yale University; Donghyun Danny Choi, Brown University

• Mating Market Shock and Gendered Support for Ukrainian Refugees in Poland - Nicholas Sambanis, Yale University; Krzysztof Krakowski, King’s College London

• The Outsider Goes to the Gulf: Public Attitudes to Immigrants in Qatar - Nicholas Sambanis, Yale University; Catalina Udani, University of Central Florida