Ethnic Enclaves and Political Participation

What is the effect of residing in ethnic enclaves on immigrants' future political participation?

In this study we leverage a comprehensive refugee placement reform that was implemented in Sweden in the mid-1980s in combination with unique individual-level turnout data to study the causal impact of ethnic concentration on immigrant voter participation.

Researchers

Henrik Andersson
Nazita Lajevardi
Karl-Oskar Lindgren
Sven Oskarsson

Publications

This research is published in an article in The Journal of Politics, January 2022.

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