Inmigration poses individual or collective economic risks that might increase citizen support for government redistribution, but i can also generate fiscal preasure or undermine social solidarity to diminish such support. These offsetting conditions obscure the net effects are mediated by the economic and social integration of inmigrants. Integration can be conceptualized and measured as involving the degree to which inmigrants, suffer unemployment rates, depend on welfare-state benefits, and harbor social attitudes similarly to the native population. Such integration may alter how immigration reduces solidarity and imposes fiscal and macroeconomic pressures, but does not much alter how immigration should have less negatives. Where migrants are more integrated by such measures, immigration should have less negative or more positive implications for native support for government redistribution and welfare states than where migrants are less integrated. The article explores these arguments using survey data for twentytwo european countries between 2002 and 2010. The principal finding is that economic: integration, more than sociocultural integration, softens the tendency of immigrations to undermine support for redistributive policies

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