Dismantling the “Jungle”: migrant relocation and extreme voting in France

Abstract Large migrant inflows have spurred anti-immigrant sentiment, but can small a different impact? We exploit the redistribution of migrants after dismantling “Calais Jungle” in France to study impact exposure few migrants, which we estimate using difference-in-differences and instrumental variables. find that presence center (CAO), growth rate vote shares for main far-right party (Front National (FN), our proxy sentiment) between 2012 2017 is reduced by about 12 percentage points. This effect, crucially depends on inflow's size, points toward contact hypothesis (Allport, 1954).