For elected officials, the making of immigration policy can be a politically risky undertaking. Questions about immigration – how many should be allowed to come, who should be allowed to come, and on what terms – cut to the core of what political communities are about. In democratic societies, political elites mobilize public sentiment to gain office, and they depend on public support to stay there and, ultimately, make policy.
This project will bring together leading scholars of public opinion with policy practitioners to share and discuss cutting-edge work analyzing what people in modern, immigrant-receiving countries think about immigrants and immigration, why they think it, and how knowing the answers to these questions shapes the policy-making process. Research presentations will focus on immigration attitudes in Canada, Europe, and the United states. In addition to discussing latest research, participants will reflect on how their work sheds light on broader relationships between researchers, media, the punditocracy, and the political class.
Public Views of Immigration and Diversity Workshop
Organized in cooperation with the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, Ottawa Office
Location: Centre for Migration Studies (CMS), University of British Columbia, Vancouver.
The workshop will be held in the Place of Many Trees (formerly Liu Multipurpose Room) at The Liu Institute for Global Issues: 6476 NW Marine Drive, Vancouver, BC V6T1Z2
This event is invitation only and closed to the public. However, the afternoon component from 2:30 – 4:30 pm is open to the public by RSVP.
Date: 9 am – 4:30 pm PDT, May 18, 2022
Event Schedule
Tuesday, May 17 |
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| 6:00 p.m. | Dinner
Sage (6331 Crescent Rd) |
Wednesday, May 18All workshop events on May 18, excluding dinner, will be located at the Place of Many Trees (formerly Multipurpose Room) at the Liu Institute for Global Issues (6476 NW Marine Drive). |
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| 8:30 a.m. | Breakfast |
| 9:00 a.m. | Welcome and Land Acknowledgement
Antje Ellermann (University of British Columbia) Matthew Wright (University of British Columbia) |
| 9:15 a.m. | Workshop Part I (closed to public) |
| 10:45 a.m. | Workshop Part II (closed to public) |
| 12:30 p.m. | Lunch and Video Recording (closed to public) |
| 1:30 p.m. | Walk and Video Recording |
| 2:30 – 4:30 p.m. | Workshop Part III (open to public, RSVP here): “Public Opinion Research Meets the Public” |
| 5:45 p.m. | Taxi or ride share from Gage Suites (5959 Student Union Blvd) to Dinner |
| 6:00 p.m. | Dinner
La Buca (4025 Macdonald Street) |
Organizers
Antje Ellermann, University of British Columbia
Matthew Wright, University of British Columbia
Participants
Keith Banting, Queen’s University
Anastasia Chyz-LeSage, Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada
Michael Donnelly, University of Toronto
Marc Helbling, Universität Mannheimer Zentrum für Europäische Sozialforschung
Dan Hiebert, University of British Columbia
Andrea Lawlor, Western University
Greg Lyle, Innovative Research
Angela Ocampo, University of Michigan
Mireille Paquet, Concordia University
Margaret Peters, UCLA
Conrad Ziller, Universität Duisburg-Essen