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Replication Data for: Dismantling the "Jungle": Migrant Relocation and Extreme Voting in France

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Title Replication Data for: Dismantling the "Jungle": Migrant Relocation and Extreme Voting in France
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/RQFXPR
 
Creator Gamalerio, Matteo
 
Publisher Harvard Dataverse
 
Description Large migrant inflows have spurred anti-immigrant sentiment, but can small inflows have a different impact? We exploit the redistribution of migrants after the
dismantling of the "Calais Jungle" in France to study the impact of the exposure
to few migrants, which we estimate using difference-in-differences and instrumental
variables. We find that in the presence of a migrant center (CAO), the growth rate
of vote shares for the main far-right party (Front National (FN), our proxy for anti-immigrant sentiment) between 2012 and 2017 is reduced by about 12 percentage
points. This effect, which crucially depends on the inflow’s size, points towards the
contact hypothesis (Allport 1954).
 
Subject Social Sciences
Voting
Migration
 
Contributor Gamalerio, Matteo