Replication Data for: Climate, Conflict & Context: Re-Evaluating Americans' Support for Refugees

As more people are displaced by climate change, public acceptance of migrants is an increasingly relevant geographical and political issue. How willing are Americans to accept climate migrants and how does this support compare to others fleeing conflict? We conducted a nationally representative survey experiment (n=1,027) with prompts that varied the context of refugee resettlement, including a control condition without context, those displaced by global warming, refugees from Ukraine, and refugees from Afghanistan. Respondents expressed marginally lower willingness to admit climate migrants and significantly higher willingness to admit Ukrainian refugees. These differences were amplified by partisanship, religion, and race. These results suggest that some migrants face a more welcoming public than others and highlight a challenge for those made vulnerable by climate change.