What happens to social trust after migration?

This is a study of what primarily shapes social trust among migrants, socialization in the country of origin or experiences from the country of residence. Relatively little is known about social trust among migrants from high-trusting societies. We study this among migrated Swedish-speaking Finns, a group well-known for its comparably strong social capital in the Finnish context. We rely on a unique set of data with surveys conducted among representative samples of both resident (n=1331) and non-resident (n=1974) Swedish-speaking Finns in 2019. The two surveys are comparable to the fifth wave of the European Values Study and allows us to compare the social trust of the non-resident Swedish-speaking Finns to the population of each of the 12 European countries where the non-residents citizens were surveyed. This combination of data allows us to examine how different individual and contextual (e.g. country of residence) factors affect social trust after migration.