Vying for Soft Power: How Great Power Competition Affects Public Support for High-Skilled Immigration

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Brief Overview

This study examines how rising U.S.–China rivalry reshapes public attitudes toward high skilled immigration.Survey and conjoint experiments test whether securitization also erodes support for talent mobility once often seen as universally beneficial.

Authors

• Yajie Wang, Chinese University of Hong Kong (Shenzhen)

• Jiahua Yue, Duke Kunshan University