‘Transatlantic Trends: Immigration 2010’

Economy and Society

Public Opinion Research

2010

Transatlantic Trends: Immigration is the third edition of an annual public opinion survey sounding North Americans and Europeans on their views toward immigration. TTI is a project of the German Marshall Fund and a broad group of European foundations. This is the second time that Spain has taken part.

DIRECTOR

German Marshall Fund, Dpto. de Estudios Sociales y Opinón Pública - Fundación BBVA, Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, Barrow Cadbury Trust, Compagnia di San Paolo

DESCRIPTION

This year’s survey analyzes the opinions of citizens on both sides of the Atlantic on a wide range of topics, among them:

– Government handling of immigration policy
– Social acceptance of immigrants
– Immigration as a problem or an opportunity
– Integration of immigrant groups
– Estimation of immigrant numbers
– Attitudes and degree of concern concerning legal and illegal immigration
– Immigrant access to healthcare and social services

TNS Opinion conducted the Transatlantic Trends: Immigration survey by means of computer-assisted telephone interviews with 1,000 subjects aged 18 and older. Interviews were carried out between August 27 and September 13, 2010 in six European countries (France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain and the United Kingdom) and between November 10 and 21, 2010 in Canada and the United States.

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