Transatlantic Trends: Immigration, 2011

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Label

Transatlantic Trends: Immigration, 2011

Creator

• Ziebarth, Astrid
• Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor]

Contributor

• Martin, Susan
• Isernia, Pierangelo
• Diehl, Claudia
• Nyiri, Zsolt
• Bernstein, Hamutal

Author

• Bernstein, Hamutal
• Ziebarth, Astrid
• Diehl, Claudia
• Nyiri, Zsolt
• Isernia, Pierangelo
• Martin, Susan

Contributor

• Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor]

Subject

• illegal immigrants
• immigrants
• immigration
• immigration policy
• international assistance
• political parties
• public opinion
• social attitudes
• social integration
• social issues
• Emigration and immigration
• survey
• voter attitudes
• voting behavior
• wages and salaries
• social services
• Noncitizens
• acculturation
• attitudes
• citizenship
• crosscultural perceptions
• developing nations
• employment
• government performance

Genre

• survey

Summary

The aim of the Transatlantic Trends Survey is to identify the attitudes of the public in the United States and European countries towards foreign policy issues and transatlantic issues. Transatlantic Trends: Immigration, a special topic public opinion survey conducted yearly since 2008, is a project of the German Marshall Fund of the United States. For 2011, the Immigration survey examined attitudes and policy preferences related to immigration in France, Germany, Italy, the United Kingdom, and the United States. This collection focused on respondent perceptions of legal and illegal immigrants, conditions for admittance of immigrants, level of support for policies to reduce immigration, preconditions for citizenship, and whether or not immigration enriched society. Respondents were asked to identify the most important issues facing their country, to evaluate their government's performance in managing immigration and the economy, whether immigration presented a national opportunity or a problem, and whether they believed immigrants were integrating well into society. Additional topics included the developments in North Africa and the Middle East, responsibility for displaced refugees coming from North Africa, and whether the respondent's nation should offer economic aid to countries committed to democracy. Lastly, respondents were asked about which political party they identified with, their voting intentions in the next national election, and whether political party agendas would influence their vote. Demographic and other background information includes gender, age, stage at which full-time education was completed, age when stopped full-time education, employment status, ethnic background, country of birth, citizenship, parents' citizenship status, type of phone line, ownership of a mobile phone, and the number of people in their household