Replication Data for: Historical Immigration Policies: Trends and Lessons

In recent years, scholars of migration have created several new immigration policy indexes, but most existing databases have limited temporal scope. They also focus, to a large extent, on the Global North. In this research note, we introduce the Historical Immigration Policy dataset (HIP), which begins to fill these gaps. We first provide an overview of the data and then describe how they offer new insights into immigration policy. We make three empirical observations. (1) On average, democracies are less open to immigration than authoritarian states but grant resident migrants more rights. (2) European states were open to immigration earlier than standard accounts of global migration assume. (3) Historically, openness to immigration and inclusive rights for resident migrants have often been complements, not substitutes.

近年来，移民研究领域的学者已构建多项新型移民政策指数，但现有多数数据库的时间覆盖范围有限，且在很大程度上聚焦于全球北方（Global North）地区。本研究简报中，我们介绍了历史移民政策数据集（Historical Immigration Policy Dataset，简称HIP），该数据集旨在填补上述研究空白。我们首先对该数据集进行整体概览，随后阐释其可为移民政策研究提供哪些全新视角。我们得出三项实证观测结果：(1) 平均而言，民主国家的移民开放程度不及威权国家，但为常住移民赋予的权利更为充分；(2) 欧洲国家的移民开放时间早于全球移民研究主流观点所认定的时间；(3) 从历史维度来看，移民开放政策与常住移民包容权利往往互为补充，而非彼此替代。