Francesco Raffaelli
@fraraffaelli.bsky.social
From 🇮🇹
Postdoc, University of Zurich 🇨🇭
Oxford PhD 🇬🇧
Postdoc, University of Zurich 🇨🇭
Oxford PhD 🇬🇧
Brief life update: I moved to Zurich, started a postdoc at @ipz.bsky.social, and the city looks gorgeous
September 3, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Brief life update: I moved to Zurich, started a postdoc at @ipz.bsky.social, and the city looks gorgeous
🌍 - 🇳🇱 data suggest that this is because they *improve* their attitudes toward Muslims when multiculturalism gets politicised by far right parties.
For progressives, the politicisation of multiculturalism *de-activates* the "immigration - gender dilemma".
6/8
For progressives, the politicisation of multiculturalism *de-activates* the "immigration - gender dilemma".
6/8
August 21, 2025 at 12:37 PM
🌍 - 🇳🇱 data suggest that this is because they *improve* their attitudes toward Muslims when multiculturalism gets politicised by far right parties.
For progressives, the politicisation of multiculturalism *de-activates* the "immigration - gender dilemma".
6/8
For progressives, the politicisation of multiculturalism *de-activates* the "immigration - gender dilemma".
6/8
🌍 - Intuitively, we'd expect the "immigration - gender dilemma" mostly to play out among progressives.
but
In context of high salience on multiculturalism, educated left-wing voters become *less* ambivalent than their less educated peers.
5/8
but
In context of high salience on multiculturalism, educated left-wing voters become *less* ambivalent than their less educated peers.
5/8
August 21, 2025 at 12:37 PM
🌍 - Intuitively, we'd expect the "immigration - gender dilemma" mostly to play out among progressives.
but
In context of high salience on multiculturalism, educated left-wing voters become *less* ambivalent than their less educated peers.
5/8
but
In context of high salience on multiculturalism, educated left-wing voters become *less* ambivalent than their less educated peers.
5/8
How does this matter for the 🎓 academic and 🌍 "in real life" debates?
🎓 - Ambivalence affects political behaviour. At high levels of ambivalence, immigration attitudes fail to predict vote choice.
4/8
🎓 - Ambivalence affects political behaviour. At high levels of ambivalence, immigration attitudes fail to predict vote choice.
4/8
August 21, 2025 at 12:37 PM
How does this matter for the 🎓 academic and 🌍 "in real life" debates?
🎓 - Ambivalence affects political behaviour. At high levels of ambivalence, immigration attitudes fail to predict vote choice.
4/8
🎓 - Ambivalence affects political behaviour. At high levels of ambivalence, immigration attitudes fail to predict vote choice.
4/8
Immigration attitudes in Europe are increasingly nuanced
I show that people can be *ambivalent toward multiculturalism*. They simultaneously have:
🟢 positive attitudes on immigrants' cultural contributions
🔴 concerns toward allegedly conservative gender norms of (Muslim) immigrants
2/8
I show that people can be *ambivalent toward multiculturalism*. They simultaneously have:
🟢 positive attitudes on immigrants' cultural contributions
🔴 concerns toward allegedly conservative gender norms of (Muslim) immigrants
2/8
August 21, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Immigration attitudes in Europe are increasingly nuanced
I show that people can be *ambivalent toward multiculturalism*. They simultaneously have:
🟢 positive attitudes on immigrants' cultural contributions
🔴 concerns toward allegedly conservative gender norms of (Muslim) immigrants
2/8
I show that people can be *ambivalent toward multiculturalism*. They simultaneously have:
🟢 positive attitudes on immigrants' cultural contributions
🔴 concerns toward allegedly conservative gender norms of (Muslim) immigrants
2/8
✨Very happy to see my paper "Attitudinal ambivalence toward multiculturalism" out on @jeppjournal.bsky.social !
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
1/8 🧵
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
1/8 🧵
August 21, 2025 at 12:37 PM
✨Very happy to see my paper "Attitudinal ambivalence toward multiculturalism" out on @jeppjournal.bsky.social !
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
1/8 🧵
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
1/8 🧵
PhDone! This (long) journey at @politicsoxford.bsky.social wouldn’t have been possible without the supervision and help of @spyroskosmidis.bsky.social @tabouchadi.bsky.social and Jane Gingrich. Thanks to my examiners @benansell.bsky.social & @markuswagner.bsky.social for their feedback
June 2, 2025 at 4:47 PM
PhDone! This (long) journey at @politicsoxford.bsky.social wouldn’t have been possible without the supervision and help of @spyroskosmidis.bsky.social @tabouchadi.bsky.social and Jane Gingrich. Thanks to my examiners @benansell.bsky.social & @markuswagner.bsky.social for their feedback
Exciting workshop on political identities at HU-Berlin organised together with @tabouchadi.bsky.social & @markuskollberg.bsky.social
November 19, 2024 at 6:51 PM
Exciting workshop on political identities at HU-Berlin organised together with @tabouchadi.bsky.social & @markuskollberg.bsky.social