What are Americans’ perceptions of immigrants’ politics? How do beliefs about whether newcomers are future allies or adversaries shape immigration attitudes? A new #AJS article shows that perceived partisan (mis)alignment powerfully informs US public opinion on immigration.

Great to see my paper, "Red and Blue Immigrants: Political (Mis)Alignment, Immigration Attitudes, and the Boundaries of American National Inclusion," is now available! Link below. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

In Quebec, the government is putting the brakes on family reunification. I find the policy unfair, and I published an article in La Presse describing the problem. To read an English version, click here: open.substack.com/pub/migratio...

How do ordinary Americans define the boundaries of U.S. national membership? In this working paper (w/ @sakeefkarim.bsky.social), we combine conjoint data with latent class regressions to examine how Americans intuitively judge who is truly American.

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Kicking off 2025 with this piece that’s been years in the making 🙏 Studying individuals in same-sex couples using longitudinal administrative data from Canadian tax records: Opportunities and challenges.

Voici ma réaction aux récents changements du programme de parrainage des personnes réfugiées au Québec:
Here are my thoughts on the recent changes to refugee sponsorship in Quebec:
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I wrote a reflection on a change announced today to refugee sponsorship policy in Canada:
www.linkedin.com/pulse/new-po...