Amount Awarded: $15,000
Migrants and migration policy are among the most contentious aspects of the recent populist and nationalist surges, and on the surface, there appears now to be remarkable, and even surprising, similarities between U.S. and European politics in this field. Populist politicians appeal to "national values;" advocates for immigrants often appeal to human or domestic rights. This project will critically examine how deep similarities between the U.S. and Europe run when it comes to the efficacy of distinct framings of claims made on behalf of immigrants. We will employ survey experiments as our key methodology. More specifically, our proposed project will extend to Norway survey experiments recently undertaken by the Berkeley Principal Investigators. We want to adapt this survey experiment for the Norwegian Citizen panel, a web-based survey of Norwegians directed by project-PI Elisabeth Ivarsflaten. The project will thus bridge research on claims-making on behalf of immigrants in the U.S led by Kim Voss and Irene Bloemraad at Berkeley, and work on majority reactions to migrants and right-wing populism in Europe led by Elisabeth Ivarsflaten and Susanne Bygnes at Bergen. Combining these research agendas in comparative analyses has not been done before, and there is great potential for generating new insights.