Narrative Guide for
Immigrant Futures (2025)
How To Create Narrative Interventions That Counter Fear and Change Attitudes

The use of fear narratives to generate political support and consolidate power is an old strategy, one we have seen throughout history. In our current reality, a coalition of Christian nationalists, authoritarians, and techno-oligarchs are reshaping our government and society in their own image through this time-tested playbook. Narrative Initiative produced a guide featuring original research from Define American and Harmony Labs, as well as our research with Grow Progress, to help organizers, advocates, and artists counter fear and change attitudes.
The Narrative Guide for Immigrant Futures offers new insights on what moves persuadable audiences, and offers tools for designing strategic narrative interventions to advance a pro-immigrant vision.
Here is a webinar with Rinku Sen, Executive Director at Narrative Initiative and Riki Conrey, Principal Scientist at Harmony Labs on the report.
On March 31st join us for a webinar, Narrative Strategy for Climate Migration: Creating Content to Grow Our Audiences and Our Solutions, for those working at the intersection of climate and migrant justice. Registration info can be found here.