What Kind of Hardship Matters? Countering Anti-Immigrant Sentiment Across Migration Motives

• In Event: Politics of Acceptance and Rejection: Electoral Behavior, Political Parties, and Immigration Attitudes

Brief Overview

We use a conjoint experiment to test whether perspective-taking narratives framing undocumented migration as a last resort reduce anti-immigrant sentiment across motives, highlighting the role of hardship type and gendered violence.

Authors

• Catalina Vega Mendez, University of Notre Dame

• Abby Cordova, University of Notre Dame

• Diana M Orces, Public Religion Research Institute