Social policies shape public opinions on immigration. A study by Alina Vrânceanu and Bilyana Petrova shows that in Western Europe, generous welfare systems – perhaps counterintuitively – make natives more favourably inclined toward immigrants. Cutting benefits risks exacerbating anti-immigrant sentiment. These research findings have important implications for social conflict in modern capitalist democracies
Ramón y Cajal Fellow, Autonomous University of Barcelona
Alina's research interests lie at the intersection between political behaviour, comparative politics and research methods.
Her research focuses on questions of individual preference formation, political representation and mass-elite linkages, with a particular emphasis on the immigration issue.
Her work has been published in leading international political science journals, including European Journal of Political Research, West European Politics, and Government and Opposition.
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