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Is this an age of division? Our research reveals a more complicated reality | Joel Rogers de Waal and Stephan Shakespeare

YouGov’s latest worldwide survey on globalism, populism and immigration reveals an encouragingly progressive outlook
Pedestrians in Sao Paulo, Brazil, a country that was revealed to be heavily in favour of an increase in immigration. Photograph: F¡Bio Vieira/Fotorua/REX/Shutterstock

Some analysts fear the pandemic will spur a new kind of backlash against the very basis of global society, from migration to cooperation and interdependence. As our in-depth polling shows, however, there is little sign of such motivation from the general public.

This is the second year of the , a tracking study of international attitudes across 25 of the world’s largest countries, produced by YouGov in partnership with researchers from the Guardian, Cambridge University and the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change.

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