Migrants Welfare State Attitudes

• Applicant: Professorin Dr. Claudia Diehl, since 10/2014
• Subject Area: Empirical Social Research ; Political Science ; Economic Policy, Applied Economics
• Term: from 2014 to 2019
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 260178371

This research proposal is among the first to focus on migrants attitudes towards the welfare state. In Europe, the field of research on welfare state public opinion has ignored the perspective of migrants almost completely. Due to migrants socialization in different welfare regimes, and their often disadvantaged socio-economic position, this groups perspective provides a unique opportunity to test the central theories in the field on the role of self-interest, group-loyalty and of socialization in different welfare regimes. We aim to study migrants welfare state attitudes in the domain of the economy and minority rights, and to explain migrant group differences, and differences compared to public opinion in the country of origin and the host country. With this innovative focus we answer questions that cut across the call s themes of People and the welfare state, Inequalities and diversity and Future politics. We rely on existing cross-national comparative datasets such as the ESS and the ISSP. However, we also propose a harmonized and unique data collection among migrants in the destination countries Denmark, Germany and the Netherlands. We composed a team with expertise on data collection among migrants, on public opinion research, and expertise on welfare state attitudes in particular. The project offers five young researchers (3 postdocs and 2 PhDs) a continuation or start of their academic career including the opportunity to spend some time in another country involved in the project. The investment in this project will result in two dissertations, 5 research articles by each of the postdocs and a book compiled by the senior researchers involved. The unique focus on migrants provides both the academic community and policy makers insights on new groups in society.

• DFG Programme: Research Grants
• International Connection: Denmark, Netherlands
• Participating Persons: Professor Dr. Christian Albrekt Larsen; Professor Dr. Marcel Lubbers
• Ehemalige Antragstellerin: Professorin Dr. Theresa Kuhn, until 10/2014