The role of elections in anti-immigrant sentiment

Carolyn Keller, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Keene State College

In November 2015, I had the opportunity to walk two blocks to the high school down the road and watch Donald Trump stump for the New Hampshire primary.  It was during this event that Mr. Trump said, for the first time, that all Syrians are “on notice” and threatened to send them all back to Syria upon his election.

Mitigating Euroscepticism and Anti-Immigration in Europe by Building Trust in Institutions

Elif Naz Kayran, PhD candidate, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, University of Geneva

What are the determinants of the growing Euroscepticism and anti-immigration attitudes in European societies? The aim of this study was to answer this important societal question by using European Social Survey data from waves 4, 6 and 7.