Large arrivals of refugees raise concerns about potential tensions with host communities,
particularly if refugees are viewed as an out-group competing for limited material resources …

In 2015, Germany welcomed close to one million asylum seekers and refugees from Syria,
Afghanistan, the Western Balkans and elsewhere. Although the country was often praised …

A commonly expressed concern about immigration is that it undermines social cohesion in
the receiving country. In this paper, we study the impact of a large and sudden inflow of …

Exploiting the random allocation of asylum seekers to different locations in Germany, we
study the impact of native attitudes, proxied by voting behaviors, on refugees' integration. We …

As immigration to Europe has increased, so has support for extremist parties. While many
studies have examined the effect of immigration on election outcomes, few have probed the …

This paper investigates the effects of local exposure to refugees on electoral outcomes in the
2016 state election in Germany. Based on quasi-random variation in the allocation of …

This special issue focuses on the consequences of the heightened conflict between member
states and increased politicization of European affairs for electoral politics in the European …

Electoral support for far-right parties is often linked to specific geographies of discontent. We
argue that public service deprivation, defined as reduced access to public services at the …

While radical right parties championing anti-immigrant platforms have made electoral gains
throughout Europe, anti-immigrant sentiment—a key indicator of radical right support—has …

In many parts of the Global North, the imagined (and often illusionary)“whiteness” of rural
societies has been both exposed and contested by the transnational movements of …