“In Our Interest: How Democracies Can Make Immigration Popular”
featuring talk by professor Alexander Kustov (the University of North Carolina at Charlotte)
Source: youtube
Date: 16 May 2025
Alexander Kustov studies democratic governance and public opinion with a focus on managing immigration and ethnic tensions in high-income countries. He specializes in computational and experimental methods, drawing on diverse data sources from surveys to historical records. His book “In Our Interest: How Democracies Can Make Immigration Popular” (Columbia University Press, 2025) examines under what conditions most people would accept more open immigration policies despite their biases.
CMR UW Migration Seminars: New Advances in Theory and Research on Migration
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