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This book is an empirical milestone and an optimistic roadmap. The core contribution is showing public opinion as malleable rather than fatally fixed. Kustov shifts the idea of immigration attitudes from an “on-or-off” stance into a register of activation and context (e.g., Sana 2021). That challenges both liberal idealists (Kymlicka 2007) and cynical restrictionists (Goodhart 2017). The public, it turns out, does not categorically reject immigration; they support it conditionally, since institutional signals can shape public preference. By shifting from diagnosis to remedy, he models a pragmatic path through this political deadlock.