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• TITLE: Voter Beliefs, Electoral Concerns and Undocumented Migration

  AUTHORS: Ruxanda Berlinschi, Mara Pasquamaria Squicciarini

  KEYWORDS: Immigration; Biased Beliefs; Electoral Concerns

  JOURNAL NAME: Open Journal of Political Science, Vol.3 No.4, October 25, 2013

  ABSTRACT: If voters underestimate the benefits that immigrants bring to their country, policy makers need to campaign for suboptimal migration levels in order to win elections. Once in power, they face a trade-off between keeping electoral promises by restricting immigration and stimulating the economy by favoring immigration. One solution to this trade-off may be maintaining high barriers to legal migration, while keeping a blind eye on undocumented migration.