{"id":5547,"date":"2019-07-05T09:16:49","date_gmt":"2019-07-05T00:16:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/sgu\/?p=5547"},"modified":"2019-07-05T09:16:49","modified_gmt":"2019-07-05T00:16:49","slug":"crop-it-workshop-a-backlash-to-international-refugee-law-evidence-from-survey-experiment-in-turkey-and-the-united-states-july-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/sgu\/news-en\/2019\/07\/05\/5547\/","title":{"rendered":"CROP IT Workshop “A Backlash to International Refugee Law: Evidence from Survey Experiment in Turkey and the United States” (July 24)"},"content":{"rendered":"

On July 24, Professor Charels Crabtree\u00a0<\/a>of\u00a0 Dept. of Government, Dartmouth College will give a talk entitled \u201cA Backlash to International Refugee Law: Evidence from Survey Experiment in Turkey and the United States\u201d Professor Atsushi Tago <\/a>of the School of Political Science and Economics is hosting the event with the support from the Center for Positive\/Empirical Analysis of Political Economy, Top Global University Project at Waseda University<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cCROP-IT (C<\/strong>ollaborative R<\/strong>esearch O<\/strong>n P<\/strong>olitical I<\/strong>nformation T<\/strong>ransmission) \u201d\u00a0 is funded by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Abstract<\/h4>\n

How do international laws and norms affect citizens’ willingness to accept refugees? In full and\u3000partial democracies, citizens’ attitudes can influence national policy on refugees across several\u3000dimensions: whether and how many the country accepts, and how they are treated once they arrive.\u3000And a growing literature suggests international institutions can influence these citizen attitudes on\u3000different foreign policy questions, but those studies are almost entirely confined to U.S.- based\u3000respondents, and none consider refugee policy. Using a survey experiment administered in\u3000September 2017 via 1335 face-to-face interviews with Turkish citizens, we investigate how different\u3000international norms affect citizens’ willingness to accept refugees. Our findings are surprising:\u3000reminding people about the government’s responsibility under the Refugee Convention to accept\u3000refugees decreases support for accepting them. This effect is driven by less educated respondents\u3000and those who support the nationalist-populist incumbent party. We replicate this result in\u3000independent work in the United States. Taken together, our results suggest that international\u3000refugee law in particular — and perhaps international institutions generally — can sometimes trigger\u3000political backlash that undermines the very policies they promote.<\/p>\n

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