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Immigration, Ethnic Diversity & Trust

Immigration, Ethnic Diversity & Trust

Released Thursday, 20th July 2023
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Immigration, Ethnic Diversity & Trust

Immigration, Ethnic Diversity & Trust

Immigration, Ethnic Diversity & Trust

Immigration, Ethnic Diversity & Trust

Thursday, 20th July 2023
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Our guest, Peter Dinesen, Professor of political science at UCL London and the University of Copenhagen talks about the consequences of immigration on generalized social trust. In his research, he explores if immigrants bring low levels of trust from their home countries or adapt to the trust levels in their new countries. And if natives respond to the increased presence of immigrants with lower levels of trust. Immigrants tend to catch up to the trust levels of natives in their new countries, while there is evidence of a weak negative effect of the presence of immigrants on trust levels among the native-born. However, Peter cautions against exaggerating the negative consequences, as other factors such as low corruption play a more significant role in trust. This is illustrated by trust increasing to record levels in Denmark since 1980 despite increasing immigration to the country.

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