Religious Infrastructures and Immigrant Integration

* Funded by Trinity Research in Social Sciences (TRiSS)

Religion’s role in immigrant integration is highly contested. Some view religion as a barrier to the socio-political integration of minority-religion immigrants while others argue for accommodating religious diversity. This project empirically tests the effects of religious infrastructures in immigrants’ vicinity on various dimensions of immigrant integration.

(Joint with Pazit Ben-Nun Bloom, see related publications here.)

Authoritarianism, Perceived Threats, and Intolerance

* Funded by TCD Arts and Benefactions Fund

Recent approaches to authoritarianism agree that authoritarianism increases prejudice and intolerance when activated by threat perceptions. However, different approaches also make different predictions about how threats and authoritarian predispositions interact. The main argument of thisproject is that individuals with differing levels of authoritarianism are triggered by different types of threat and become more intolerant and punitive when threats to their value systems are made salient.