Publications

Publications

• Re-thinking the drivers of regular and irregular migration: evidence from the Euro-Mediterranean
  Author(s): James Dennison
  Type: Reporto
  Year: 2022
• Strategic Communication for Migration Policymakers: Lessons from the State of the Science
  Author(s): James Dennison
  Type: Report
  Year: 2022

• Populist Attitudes and Threat Perceptions of Global Transformations and Governance: Experimental Evidence from India and the United Kingdom
  Author(s): James Dennison, Stuart J. Turnbull-Dugarte
  Type: Article
  Year: 2022

• Sometimes it is the little things : a meta-analysis of individual and contextual determinants of attitudes toward immigration (2009–2019)
  Author(s): Lenka Dražanová
  Type: Article
  Year: 2021

• Migration narratives in the Euro-Mediterranean region: what people believe and why
  Author(s): James Dennison
  Type: Report
  Year: 2021

• Narratives: a review of concepts, determinants, effects, and uses in migration research
  Author(s): James Dennison
  Type: Article
  Year: 2021

• Thinking Globally about Attitudes to Immigration: Concerns about Social Conflict, Economic Competition and Cultural Threat
  Author(s): James Dennison, Andrew Geddes
  Type: Article
  Year: 2021

• The Role of Human Values in Explaining Support for European Union Membership
  Author(s): James Dennison, Daniel Seddig, Eldad Davidov
  Type: Article
  Year: 2021

• The centre no longer holds: the Lega, Matteo Salvini and the remaking of Italian immigration politics
  Author(s): James Dennison, Andrew Geddes
  Type: Article
  Year: 2021

• How to perform impact assessments: Key steps for assessing communication interventions
  Author(s): James Dennison
  Type: Report
  Year: 2020

• Why COVID-19 does not necessarily mean that attitudes towards immigration will become more negative
  Author(s): James Dennison, Andrew Geddes
  Type: Report
  Year: 2020

• What factors determine attitudes to immigration? : a meta-analysis of political science research on immigration attitudes (2009-2019)
  Author(s): Lenka Dražanová
  Type: Working Paper
  Year: 2020

• Explaining voting in the UK’s 2016 EU referendum: Values, attitudes to immigration, European identity and political trust
  Author(s): James Dennison, Eldad Davidov, Daniel Seddig
  Type: Article
  Year: 2020

• What policy communication works for migration? Using values to depolarise
  Author(s): James Dennison
  Type: Report
  Year: 2020

• Global trends and continental differences in attitudes to immigration : thinking outside the Western box
  Author(s): Lenka Dražanová, Jérôme Gonnot, Claudia Brunori
  Type: Policy Brief
  Year: 2020

• Attitudes to immigration in the Arab-speaking world: Explaining an overlooked anomaly. UN International Organisation for Migration: Migration Research Series
  Author(s): James Dennison, Mohamed Nasr
  Type: Report
  Year: 2020

• A basic human values approach to migration policy communication
  Author(s): James Dennison
  Type: Article
  Year: 2020

• Impact of Public Attitudes to migration on the political environment in the Euro-Mediterranean Region: Southern Partner Countries
  Author(s): James Dennison, Mohamed Nasr
  Type: Report
  Year: 2020

• What are Europeans’ views on migrant integration? : an in-depth analysis of 2017 Special Eurobarometer
  Author(s): Lenka Dražanová, Thomas Liebig, Silvia Migali, Marco Scipioni, Gilles Spielvogel
  Type: Working Paper
  Year: 2020

• Explaining the emergence of the radical right in Spain and Portugal : salience, stigma and supply
  Author(s): James Dennison, Mariana S. Mendes
  Type: Article
  Year: 2020

• Public attitudes to migrant workers : a (lasting) impact of Covid-19?
  Author(s): Lenka Dražanová
  Type: Commentary
  Year: 2020

• How niche parties react to losing their niche : the cases of the Brexit Party, the Green Party and Change UK
  Author(s): James Dennison
  Type: Article
  Year: 2020

• A proposal for simultaneous reform of the House of Commons and House of Lords
  Author(s): James Dennison
  Type: Article
  Year: 2020

• The dynamics of electoral politics after the Arab Spring : evidence from Tunisia
  Author(s): James Dennison, Jonas Bergan Draege
  Type: Article
  Year: 2020

• Cast in the same mould : how politics during the impressionable years shapes attitudes towards immigration in later life
  Author(s): Lenka Dražanová, Anne-Marie Jeannet
  Type: Working Paper
  Year: 2019

• Impact of Public Attitudes to migration on the political environment in the Euro-Mediterranean Region
  Author(s): James Dennison
  Type: Report
  Year: 2019

• The Austrian parliamentary elections 2019 : are Austrians anti-immigrant?
  Author(s): Lenka Dražanová
  Type: Policy Brief
  Year: 2019

• Public opinion on migration
  Author(s): James Dennison
  Type: Policy paper
  Year: 2019

• Public attitudes on migration : rethinking how people perceive migration : an analysis of existing opinion polls in the Euro-Mediterranean region
  Author(s): James Dennison, Lenka Dražanová
  Type: Research Report
  Year: 2019

• A rising tide? : the salience of immigration and the rise of anti-immigration political parties in Western Europe
  Author(s): James Dennison, Andrew Geddes
  Type: Journal Article
  Year: 2018

• Brexit and the Perils of Europeanised Migration
  Author(s): James Dennison, Andrew Geddes
  Type: Journal Article
  Year: 2018

• Op-ed: Are Europeans turning against asylum seekers and refugees?
  Author(s): James Dennison, Andrew Geddes
  Type: Op-ed
  Year: 2017

• Public attitudes to immigration in Germany in the aftermath of the migration crisis
  Author(s): Teresa Talò
  Type: Policy Brief
  Year: 2017

• Explaining attitudes to immigration in France
  Author(s): James Dennison, Teresa Talò
  Type: Working Paper
  Year: 2017

Other outputs

Non-Academic Publications

• Contributor to: IOM (2018) Informing the Implementation of the Global Compact for Migration
• Dennison, J. and Dražanová, L. (2018) Attitudes to Immigration in Europe and the Southern Mediterranean
• Contributor to: CEPS (2018) The Cost of Non-Europe in Migration Policy
• Dražanová, Lenka. 2018. Eurobarometro, speciale immigrazione: in che modo le opinioni degli italiani differiscono da quelle dei cittadini europei? Questione Giustizia.

Invited Speakers

James Dennison

• ‘Attitudes to immigration and the future of the European Union’, Club of Venice, Venice, 2018
• ‘The political effects of attitudes to immigration’, MIDEM conference, Berlin, 2018
• ‘Brexit: Why the UK and why now?’, University of Amsterdam, 2018
• ‘Explaining Attitudes to Immigration in Europe’, European Parliament, Brussels, 2018
• ‘Attitudes to Immigration in Europe and the Southern Mediterranean’, Tunis, Tunisia, 2018
• ‘What would a fair Brexit look like?’, EUI Thoughts on the future of Europe series, 2018
• State of the Union 2018, EUI Florence, Narratives and Attitudes to Migration. See video here.
• ‘Understanding attitudes to immigration in Italy today’, 2018, Metropolis conference. See video here.
• Presenting evidence to the European Parliament Select Committees. See video here.
• ‘What Europeans think of immigration’ at EPIM, Brussels, 2018
• ‘Looking behind the culture of fear’ Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, Budapest, 2018
• ‘Public Attitudes on Migration’, European Commission talk with cabinet, Brussels, 2017
• ‘The Rise of Populism’, After dinner speaker with Barclays and McKinsey, London, 2017
• ‘International cooperation in responsibility-sharing for refugees’, American University in Cairo, 2017

Lenka Drazanova

• University of Vienna lecture, March 2021. “A leopard can’t change its spots: How and why early life experiences affect our attitudes to migration?” What video (in English) here.
• Czexpats in Science conference. Key note lecture: “Původy postojů k migraci (Origins of attitudes to migration)” December 2020. Watch video (in Czech) here.
• MPC Webinar Covid-19 and Border Restrictions in the EU: Is Schengen in Crisis?, December 2020. Contribution: “Border restrictions in the EU: what does the public think?” Watch video (in English) here.
• ReSOMA Webinar on public opinion towards migration. March 2020. Watch video (in English) here.
• ‘Effectively communicating on migration’ ReSOMA Transnational Thematic Feedback Meeting, Brussels, 2019.
• MPC Webinar ‘Migration, Citizenship and Public Perceptions’, November 2019. Contribution: “Blame it on My Youth: The Origins of Attitudes Towards Immigration“.
• ‘Affective and Cultural Dimensions of Integration of Immigrants and Refugees’ Workshop, Berlin, 2019. German Institute for Economic Research (DIW).
• ‘The Italian Decree on Security and Immigration: how Legitimate and Effective is it?’ , Florence, 2019. Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies.
• ‘EU Migration Challenges: What Can Diplomacy and Science Together Contribute?’ European Academy of Diplomacy, Cracow, 2019.
• Prague Process Senior Officials’ meeting. International Centre for Migration Policy Development (ICMPD), Prague, 2018.
• ‘Perceptions of Migration in Europe. Implications for Policy-Making’. Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS), Brussels, 2018. Watch video (in English).
• ‘Migrazioni e asilo nella regione euro-mediterranea’. Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, Pisa, 2018. Watch video (in Italian).

More than one OPAM member at the same event

• MPC Webinar Immigrants’ Political Attitudes. Assimilation or Divergence? January 2022. Contribution: “Migrants attitudes towards immigration – convergence towards natives? Evidence from Europe” (with Michaela Sedovic) What video (in English) here.
• MPC Webinar Public attitudes towards immigration and immigrants, May 2021. Contribution: “What factors affect attitudes to immigration?” What video (in English) here.
• ‘Navigating between social science research and policy making recommendations’. Florence, 2019. Migration Policy Centre Annual Conference.
• ‘Europe’s turning point on migration? Politics, Policy and Predictions ahead of the 2019 Elections’, Brussels, 2019. Watch video (in English) here.

Blog Posts and Press

James Dennison

• On-going blogging at https://medium.com/@jamesdennison_7425
• The emergence of the populist radical right in Spain demonstrates the conditions under which such parties succeed, LSE Europp
• Why immigration has the potential to upend the Italian election, LSE Europp
• Op-ed: Are Europeans turning against asylum seekers and refugees?, European Council on Refugees and Exiles

Lenka Drazanova

• Are older people more hostile towards immigrants? MPC Blog – Debate Migration, September 2021.
• Public attitudes to migrant workers: a (lasting) impact of Covid-19? MigResHub commentary, November 2020.
• The long-term closure of schools due to COVID-19: Are we set for a less tolerant future? MPC Blog – Debate Migration, June 2020.
• Austria’s snap election: Is the Freedom Party (FPÖ) going to fade away? EUIdeas corporate blog of the European University Institute, October 2019.
• Austria’s snap election: Why has the far-right Freedom Party suffered such heavy losses? University of Oslo, Center for Research on Extremism “Right Now!” blog, September 2019.
• Measuring Changes in Ethnic Diversity Over Time: The Historical Index of Ethnic Fractionalization Dataset (HIEF) MPC Blog – Debate Migration, September 2019.
• Eurobarometro, speciale immigrazione: in che modo le opinioni degli italiani differiscono da quelle dei cittadini europei? Questione Giustizia, December 2018.
• Dražanová, Lenka. The Special Eurobarometer on Integration of immigrants in the European Union: How do Italians differ in their views compared to the rest of Europe? MPC Blog – Debate Migration, March 2018.
• Immigration and the Czech presidential election. LSE Europp