Voicu, Bogdan, and Claudia Tufiş. "Migrating Trust: contextual determinants of internal migrants' confidence in political institutions". European Political Science Review, Vol.9, No.3 (2017): 351-373.

Voicu, Bogdan, and Claudia Tufiş. "Migrating Trust: contextual determinants of internal migrants' confidence in political institutions". European Political Science Review, Vol.9, No.3 (2017): 351-373.

• Confidence and trust in institutions depends on the socioeconomic position of the person, the performance of that institution, the cultural environment, and the individual's personality. The last two are not generally subject to change, and likely continue to affect general levels of trust following migration (351).
• Evidence shows that culture does have an effect on the trust in institutions. While immigrants do begin to adopt local cultural attitudes towards societal trust and trust of the government, these changes still do not entirely erase cultural attitudes formed prior to emmigration (352, 354-355).
• Cultural attitudes and individual personality characteristics are both developed in childhood and adolescence. It should be expected that those who migrated at a younger age are more likely to have the cultural attitudes of their host country rather than their native country (355).
• This is proven incorrect by the data generated by the authors. People of all ages are likely to adopt the cultural attitudes of their host country, with older migrants just as likely to adopt the new culture as younger migrants (366).
• The level of societal trust in government can change for a number of reasons. Some cite that decline in specific institutions, like the church or the army, can affect society as a whole. There is also consistent evidence that democratization results in a rapid peak in trust for government followed by a sharp decline in trust compared to pre-democratic levels (353).
• The methodology of this study is available from page 356 to page 361.
• Immigrants tend to almost entirely adopt the culture of trust or distrust in their host countries. In the majority of European states there is no statistical difference in trust levels between immigrants and natives, the exceptions being Slovakia, Estonia, and Kosovo, where immigrants were least trusting; and Belgium, the UK, Iceland, Luxembourg, Spain, and Switzerland, where immigrants were more trusting (362, 369).
• Although national difference are small and decrease with the amount of time spent in the host country, immigrants generally retain some features of the trust environment in which they were raised. Immigrants from more trusting countries are more trusting, and those from distrustful cultures are less trusting (364, 366).
• Women tend to be more trusting, but the difference is very small. The very young and those over 40 tend to be more trusting that people in their 20s and 30s. Participation in organized religion, voluntary associations, or political activities all correlated positively with levels of trust (362).