Descended from Immigrants and Revolutionists: How Immigrant Experience Shapes Congressional Decisionmaking on Immigration Votes

• In Event: Representation and Immigration Policy

Brief Overview

We use ancestry data from the census to identify the familial immigration history of members of Congress. We examine the relationship between immigrant background and roll call voting on a series of major immigration and naturalization bills.

Authors

• Maxwell Palmer, Boston University

• Benjamin Schneer, Harvard Kennedy School