Immigration, Integration, and Naturalization: New Immigrants, Policy Decisions and Citizens’ Responses

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The way migration flows and immigrant integration are regulated hasbecome of crucial interest in both scholarly and public debates. Whilethere is now ample research on the general question of whether moreor less migrants should be allowed to access one's country we stillknow very little about how specific regulations are perceived bycitizens and how they impact on their attitudes and behaviours and thus, ultimately, their acceptance of newcomers. This project aims atproviding evidence-based answers to the following question: What arethe consequences of immigration, integration and naturalizationpolicies for citizens attitudes and actual behaviour related to theacceptance of new immigrant groups? In order to reach our intendedresearch goals we will design two surveys including different surveyexperiments which will be conducted in Germany. The experiments will allow us toidentify the causal impact of policies on attitudes and behaviour in amore thorough way. To get a more nuanced picture of policy effectswe will confront them with policies by means of survey vignettes.Finally, to get a grasp of the rational interests of ordinary citizens wewill measure the effects of policies on attitudes towards migrants as afunction of the degree of agreement with these policies and as afunction of whether these policies change the status quo or not for thenatives themselves.