Research project Diversity preferences, diversity-motivated behaviors and their consequences

Full title of the project: Diversity preferences, diversity-motivated behaviors and their consequences: a study of foreign-born residents in Sweden at the intersection between country of birth and reason for migration.

Understanding how the foreign-born population perceives and responds to further in-migration in the host country is essential for evaluating social cohesion. Since responses to international immigration are almost exclusively studied from the point of view of the majority population, this task is even more relevant for diverse societies such as Sweden.

Aim of the project

This project studies how migrants perceive, respond to, and are shaped by further migration. The aim is to fill a research gap by examining the diversity preferences and diversity-motivated behaviors of immigrants themselves and exploring the possibility that responses to further migration may differ based on the reasons for their own migration. Combining survey experiments and population registers analyses, this project aims to provide a comprehensive study of stated and revealed diversity preferences towards fellow immigrants and examine how these preferences manifest in real-life behaviors.