ATIAS Project

ATIAS (Attitudes towards Immigration in Ageing Societies)

Funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (September 2016- November 2018)

The aim of the ATIAS project is to study the extent of an inter-generational divide in attitudes towards immigration and to untangle the individual and cohort-level forces that underlie it. The project focuses on two age-related influences, life stage effects and cohort effects; and is simultaneously interested in how these social structures shape immigration preferences, and their respective contribution to the public’s aggregate opinion. This project attempts to resolve the role of age, and the other temporal processes that it signifies, in a person’s preferences for immigration. ATIAS will also offer insights into how an ageing population can produce distinctive dynamics of social change in attitudes towards immigration.

Peer Reviewed Publications:

Jeannet, Anne-Marie (2018) "Revisiting the Labor Market Competition Hypothesis in A Comparative Perspective: Does Retirement Affect Opinion About Immigration? " Research & Politics. 5(3).

Conference Proceedings:

“Age and Opinion about Immigration: Examining Ego-tropic vs. Socio-tropic Orientations

across the Life-cycle. ” Presented at the Annual Meeting of the International Political Psychological Association in Edinburgh, June 29-July 2, 2017.

“The Impact of Retirement on Preferences for Immigration: Revisiting the Labor Market

Competition Hypothesis.” Presented at the Annual Meeting of the European Political Science Association in Milan, June 22-24, 2017.

Works-in-Progress:

“Inter-generational Differences in Attitudes Towards Immigration: Assessing Compositional,

Behavioral and Value-based Explanations.” (with L. Drazanova).

“Ageing Societies and the Consequences for Mass Opinion about Immigration.”