Sergi Pardos-Prado

The Immigration Substack Universe All migration newsletters and people you want to follow in one place

If you're new to Substack or just looking for serious immigration writing, I've compiled "The Immigration Substack Universe"--a live directory of newsletters focused on policy analysis, research, and field reporting. Check it out and suggest additions.

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Interested in why public anti-immigrant sentiment is so geographically concentrated? Here's some work with @denis-cohen.bsky.social testing a new theory on how regional labour market risks and inter-regional migration shape long-term spatial polarisation. Just out in @bjpols.bsky.social 👇

Not surprised at all. Congratulations!! ⬇️

"Energy Transition, Financial Markets and EU Interventionism: Lessons from the Ukraine Crisis" by Patrick Bayer, Lorenzo Crippa and Federica Genovese A successful energy transition requires the reallocation of private capital away from fossil fuel assets to greener alternatives. This transition is typically hindered by investors’ focus on today’s returns. In times of crisis, however, credible and unambiguous political signals about the future profitability of green industries can steer investments towards low-carbon assets. Drawing on European Union interventions during the onset of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, we present an event study of daily stock market returns following the most salient policy announcements by the European Commission in 2022. Our analysis shows that markets for shares of EU-based energy firms were initially prepared to move capital to cleaner companies, suggesting support for the clean energy transition. However, the short-lived distributional effects materialized only for announcements that could unmistakably be understood as unwavering commitments to the EU’s green renewal, while more ambiguous announcements did not have the same distributional implications. Our findings emphasize that repeated and unambiguous political signals during crisis episodes can create favorable market conditions, at least in the short-term, to support capital reallocation towards greener stocks.

🚨 @patrickbayer.bsky.social, @lorenzocrippa.bsky.social and I have a paper entitled “Energy Transition, Financial Markets and EU Interventionism: Lessons from the Ukraine Crisis” cond. accepted at @psrm.bsky.social.

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Gist of the paper in this 🧵 :

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So proud of @anjaneundorf.bsky.social ‘s achievement, and so immensely deserved ⬇️

🆕 publication alert ✨

I’m delighted our paper on Waves of Securitisation: The Rise, Fall and Resurgence of Citizenship Stripping Regulations in Europe, with Luuk vd Baaren & Maria Gerdes is out now in Statelessness & Citizenship Review!

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Pay gap between nationals and migrants mainly due to unequal access to high-paying jobs Recognizing foreign qualifications and providing language training could improve immigrants’ access to better-paying positions.

Excited to see our paper on the immigrant–native pay gap featured in @nature.com’s new policy brief pilot, please take a look!

🚨 New in Journal of Politics! 🚨
Do radical right parties need to cut ties with old dictatorships to succeed?
👉 @sergipardos.bsky.social and my study of Spain’s VOX says: ❌ Not necessarily.

Apply to EuroWEPS 12/13! We're organizing the next EuroWEPS workshops at Bocconi (Nov 14) and EUI (Dec 15) to discuss designs/papers focusing on causal inference. No presentations, just constructive discussions. Early career scholars are especially welcome to apply! Submission deadline is Sep 30

This is an important opportunity for European poli sci: contribute
to getting EPSS off to a fantastic start by submitting your work to next year’s conference. I’m section chair for Migration Politics together with @aalrababah.bsky.social and can’t wait to see the cool mig research you have for us 🔥

The @epssnet.bsky.social call for the 2026 conference in Belfast opened today! 😮

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Deadline: 7 November 2025

I'm hiring another postdoc (research-focused, for almost 5 years) for my @erc.europa.eu project on the educational cleavage!
I'm looking for someone with strong quantitative text-analysis skills (e.g. #NLP, #LLM, etc.) to study the role of political actors in cleavage formation.

How have the earnings of migrant employees changed over time?

HMRC stats from our updated piece with @jdportes.bsky.social indicate that non-EU nationals who joined the workforce since Brexit have seen faster earnings growth than earlier cohorts.

✨ Come and join @politicsoxford.bsky.social for 5 years ✨

This is the perfect position for a research and teaching active junior colleague with expertise in European politics and quant methods. Apply!

From today, 111 jobs will no longer qualify for Skilled Worker visas, but a sizable number will still be able to recruit migrants.

In fact, of the 26,900 people who were granted a Skilled Worker visa between October and March, 76% were for jobs that will remain eligible.

Amazing news and immensely deserved!

Advertising Online Surveys on Social Media: How Your Advertisements Affect Your Study

Are you using online surveys in your research? Recruiting participants through paid ads? Then @anjaneundorf.bsky.social and I have an article you’ll want to read:

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Very good review on the relationship between immigration and the welfare state: policy effects on migration intentions, migrant fiscal contributions, and public opinion. Really useful! ⬇️

Calling UKRI-funded doctoral students interested in migration!

Apply for an internship with the Migration Advisory Committee - deadline 8th Sept

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Immigration on FM’s agenda for today’s meeting with PM. Fantastic insight on why from @nasarmeer.bsky.social & @sergipardos.bsky.social well worth a listen!

The Immigration White Paper - Spotlight Podcast

🚨New episode of #UofGSpotlight🎙️

We dive into the UK Gov’s Immigration White Paper with Professors @nasarmeer.bsky.social & @sergipardos.bsky.social.

Challenging some assumptions made in immigration policy and discussing the politics behind the rhetoric.

🎧 Listen now: uofgspotlight.com

Very much looking forward to visiting Oxford this coming Friday. We'll chat about the causes and consequences of the geographic concentration of anti-immigrant preferences and related outcomes. Come along if around!

Fully funded PhD opportunity at the University of Glasgow! Just a few days left to apply. Deadline 21 April. More info here 🔽

Yes please. For this one and any other position..

📢 Fully funded PhD opportunity at the University of Glasgow! Interested in the following questions?

❓How do national identities shape attitudes toward migration?

🌍 How does this relationship change over time and across countries?

Apply before 21 April. Details here: tinyurl.com/3cxay963

New HMRC data show a sharp rise in the number of employee jobs held by non-EU nationals since the post-Brexit system was introduced.

From January 2020 to December 2024, the number of UK jobs held by Indian nationals grew by 565k. Nigerian nationals held 340k more jobs.

Abstract: How does anti-immigrant rhetoric by mainstream politicians affect norms of tolerance? How does this compare to similar statements made by radical-right politicians? Drawing on experimental evidence, we find that statements by mainstream politicians lead to more norm erosion than similar statements by radical-right politicians. Subsample analyses suggests that this is because statements by mainstream-right politicians erode norm perceptions of right-wing individuals, while those by radical-right politicians induce backlash among left-wing individuals, who hold closer to the norm in place. The latter effect (backlash by the left) disappears when similar statements are made by mainstream right politicians. We argue that this difference occurs because mainstream politicians represent the views of a larger part of the population or have a higher status. Our results highlight the pivotal role of mainstream politicians in enforcing or eroding democratic norms, and that similar political statements can have different effects depending on their sender.

Very happy that our paper (w/ @dziblatt.bsky.social & E Dinas) has been accepted @bjpols.bsky.social .

We've seen the center right increasingly adopt far-right rhetoric.

Our experiment in 🇩🇪 finds that this erodes anti-prejudice norms *more* than when the far-right employs similar rhetoric.

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Looking at the electoral geography of West vs East Germany, they look like two different countries. @anjaneundorf.bsky.social's take on why this is happening 👇

Upward mobility? New paper on intergenerational mobility of the children of immigrants in 15 countries, with UK contribution from @alanmanning4.bsky.social

[As you'd expect, UK looks pretty good.]

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Understanding Preferences over Borders Abstract. The governance of international borders has evolved into a contentious issue of political competition along the cosmopolitan-nationalistic divide

With the amazing Jana Lipps and @giorgiomalet.bsky.social we have a new publication in ISQ! We explore and theorize citizens’ preferences for border securing policies using open-ended survey responses and a conjoint experiment academic.oup.com/isq/article/...