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I then test for the effect of outgroup trust on cross-ethnic voting using an imagined intergroup contact stimulus embedded in survey experiments conducted among convenience samples of undergraduate students in the U.S., Myanmar migrants in the U.S., and Myanmar migrants in Thailand. I find evidence for an indirect effect of imagined intergroup contact on cross-ethnic voting via an increase in outgroup trust among ethnic minority undergraduate students, Myanmar migrants from the ethnic majority group living in the United States, and Myanmar migrants with high levels of ethnic salience living in Thailand. These results can be interpreted as outgroup trust being of greater importance to those whose ethnic status is unstable and weak. Lastly, I test for the mechanisms through which outgroup trust leads to cross-ethnic voting using survey experimental data among Myanmar migrants in Thailand. 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I then test for the effect of outgroup trust on cross-ethnic voting using an imagined intergroup contact stimulus embedded in survey experiments conducted among convenience samples of undergraduate students in the U.S., Myanmar migrants in the U.S., and Myanmar migrants in Thailand. I find evidence for an indirect effect of imagined intergroup contact on cross-ethnic voting via an increase in outgroup trust among ethnic minority undergraduate students, Myanmar migrants from the ethnic majority group living in the United States, and Myanmar migrants with high levels of ethnic salience living in Thailand. These results can be interpreted as outgroup trust being of greater importance to those whose ethnic status is unstable and weak. Lastly, I test for the mechanisms through which outgroup trust leads to cross-ethnic voting using survey experimental data among Myanmar migrants in Thailand. 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