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The Brexit as a Social Cleavage: Attitudes to Immigration and Race in Britain, 2018 study uses a British Election Study online panel sub- sample to ask about attitudes towards ethnic minorities, racist behaviours, immigrants, and people who voted for Leave and Remain in the Brexit referendum. Linkage to the other British Election Survey questions is available.This research had four goals: (1) to examine how the vote to leave the EU relates to the emergence of divisions in British society around immigration, diversity and identity, as a continuation of past trends, a transient shock, or the beginning of a fundamental political realignment; (2) to investigate how the referendum result is impacting on the internal politics and electoral strategies of the main opposition political parties to the left and right of the governing Conservative Party; (3) analyse how the referendum result is changing the politics of immigration, currently the most salient issue in the country, and map the emergence of a new agenda within this area: of immigrant integration policy and politics; (4) undertake an intensive and clearly-defined stream of impact and knowledge exchange work to communicate our findings to key stakeholders, to inform politicians, policymakers, journalists and civil society groups.Further details about this study can be found on the Gateway to Research webpage.

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This study covers attitudes towards ethnic minorities, racist behaviours and immigrants.

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Web-based experiment