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Transatlantic Trends
ImmIgratIon
Key Findings 2010
Transatlantic Trends: Immigration 2010 Partners
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Highlights of Transatlantic Trends: Immigration 2010 ..................................................................................... 3 General Perceptions............................................................................................................................................ 5 Economic Hardship, Labor Markets, and Immigration .................................................................................... 8 Immigration and Welfare ................................................................................................................................. 13 Immigration and the Political Arena............................................................................................................... 16 Legal and Illegal Immigration: Perceptions and Policy Alternatives.............................................................. 21 Immigrant Integration, Belonging, and Entitlements ..................................................................................... 27 Conclusion ........................................................................................................................................................ 34 Methodology ..................................................................................................................................................... 36 Chart Index ...................................................................................................................................................... 37
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Immigration
Highlights of Transatlantic Trends: Immigration 2010
n 2010, immigration dominated headlines in Europe and North America like never before. Though flows of new migrants slowed in 2008 and 2009 as a result of the economic crisis, Americans grappled with questions of governance stemming from legislation in Arizona, and asylum policy in Canada made headlines after a number of highprofile incidents. In September, France's lower house overwhelmingly passed a ban on face-covering veils everywhere that can be considered public space. Dutch politician Geert Wilders won 15% of the vote for his Party for Freedom by running on an antiimmigrant and anti-Islamic platform. In Germany, a controversial book was released in August, drawing national attention to the integration of Germany's Muslim minority. In order to gauge the effects of these types of political developments on public opinion, Transatlantic Trends: Immigration (TTI) targets perceptions of immigrant groups and support for immigration and integration policies in a comparative context. Now in its third year, Transatlantic Trends: Immigration continues to measure public opinion on immigration issues on both sides of the Atlantic. The countries included in the 2010 version of the survey were the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, and Spain. These eight migrantreceiving countries each face unique challenges when it comes to immigration and integration issues, and 2010 was the first year in which TTI yielded comparable year-on-year data in each of them. As many of the countries included in TTI were still grappling with the aftermath of the economic crisis in 2010, a primary focus of TTI 2010 was the economy and its effects on attitudes. Transatlantic Trends: Immigration 2010 asked North Americans and

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