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WP4.1 provides an overview of the publication opinion on immigration and immigrants. We are interested in attitudinal questions on the consequences of immigration and integration. Specifically, our goal is to capture whether respondents have a liberal or conservative position on the issue. We will retrieve surveys and polls and make use agreement scales on questions such as ‘foreigners exploit our social welfare system'. Additionally, we will also have data on the salience (i.e. importance) of the immigrant and integration issue among the public. These data will allow us to... WP1 studies the descriptive representation of citizens of immigrant origin (CIO). We define CIOs as individuals who either were born abroad as foreign nationals and who (might) have, subsequently, acquired the citizenship of the country in question (1st generation) or have/had one parent of foreign nationality at birth (2ndgeneration). Our definition of descriptive representation is the ‘presence' (Phillips) of..