This article provides a longitudinal analysis on the driving forces behind Europeans' positions toward development aid and identifies changes in the dynamics following the migrant flows in 2015. Specifically, it assesses the extent to which policy‐makers' decisions to utilize development policy as a strategic tool to manage migration resonates at the public level. Using multilevel regression models on cross‐sectional survey data acquired from Eurobarometer surveys covering five waves between 2013 and 2018, supplemented by a series of macro‐level covariates both at the country and regional level, I show that voters in countries and regions with higher numbers of migrants are more supportive of foreign aid. The models also verify that support for foreign aid in polities that are the destination for migrants is substantially stronger in surveys conducted after 2015 than before and among voters who are interested in politics.

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协助他人的政治化：移民对欧洲发展援助舆论的影响

本文对欧洲人获得发展援助的立场背后的驱动力进行了纵向分析，并确定了2015年移民潮之后的动态变化。尤其是，它评估了政策制定者将发展政策用作战略决策的程度。管理迁移的工具在公众层面引起了共鸣。我使用从Eurobarometer调查获得的横断面调查数据的多级回归模型，该调查涵盖了2013年至2018年之间的五次波动，并辅以国家和地区两级的一系列宏观协变量，我证明了选民人数较高的国家和地区的移民更支持外国援助。