Iva Srbinovska is a PhD candidate at the Chair of Comparative Politics and Empirical Democracy Research. She obtained her BA from Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson University) in Politics and Governance with a minor in French. Following her BA, she received her MA in Comparative and International Studies from ETH Zurich in 2022. Her MA thesis focused on anti-immigrant direct democratic campaigns and their effects on immigrants’ sense of political belonging. Since arriving in Zurich in 2020, she also works as an assistant at the Immigration Policy Lab on immigrant integration resesarch. Her research interes ts are on direct democratic institutions and their secondary effects with a focus on initiatives and the surrounding campaigns.