Too Old to Forget: The Dynamics of Political Trust among Immigrants.
Scholars have argued that immigrants' trust in institutions is the result of the exposure to host-country institutions but also shaped by past experiences in the country of origin. These experiences create a "home-country point of reference," a political/institutional memory that becomes the relevan...
| Published in: | Political Studies Vol. 70; no. 3; pp. 624 - 655 |
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Sage Publications Inc.
Aug2022
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