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

移民流动和移民融合的监管方式已经成为学术和公共辩论的关键兴趣。虽然现在对是否应该允许更多或更少的移民进入一个国家的一般性问题进行了充分的研究，但我们仍然很少了解公民如何看待具体的规定，以及这些规定如何影响他们的态度和行为，从而最终影响他们对新移民的接受程度。本项目旨在为以下问题提供基于证据的答案：移民、融合和归化政策对公民接受新移民群体的态度和实际行为的影响是什么？为了达到我们的研究目标，我们将设计两个调查，包括不同的调查实验，将在德国进行。这些实验将使我们能够以更彻底的方式确定政策对态度和行为的因果影响。为了更细致地了解政策效果，我们将通过调查小插曲的方式让他们面对政策。最后，为了掌握普通公民的理性利益，我们将衡量政策对移民态度的影响，作为对这些政策的认同程度的函数，以及作为这些政策是否改变现状的函数。

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.