Benefit of the doubt: The role of participant ethnicity and ideologies in economic threat perceptions of Mexican immigrants

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacob S. Brookfield ◽  
Sei Jin Ko ◽  
David M. Marx ◽  
Thierry Devos
Keyword(s):  
Mexican Immigrants ◽  
Threat Perceptions ◽  
Economic Threat

The Role of Intergroup Threat in Support of Punitive Policies Toward Mexican Immigrants

2021 ◽  
pp. 073998632110346
Author(s):  
Steffanie Guillermo ◽  
Jose Zuniga ◽  
Angela D. Quiroz
Keyword(s):  
Social Dominance ◽  
Undocumented Immigrants ◽  
Mexican Immigrants ◽  
Political Attitudes ◽  
Social Dominance Orientation ◽  
Amazon Mechanical Turk ◽  
Intergroup Threat ◽  
Threat Perceptions ◽  
Detention Centers

The present research examined the degree to which symbolic and realistic threat perceptions of documented and undocumented Mexican immigrants predicted support for willingness to provide basic resources (e.g., food, water) in detention centers and agreement with policies that restrict Mexican immigration through detention and deportation. Our study recruited 191 participants online via Amazon Mechanical Turk. Results showed that undocumented immigrants were more realistically, but not symbolically threatening than their documented counterparts. Intergroup threat predicted lower willingness to provide basic resources in detention centers and greater support of punitive policies. This finding was not moderated by whether participants evaluated documented or undocumented immigrants. Once we accounted for social dominance orientation (SDO), political attitudes, and contact with Mexican immigrants, only SDO remained a significant predictor of attitudes toward resources in detention centers, while all variables predicted more support for punitive policies. These findings highlight the roles of symbolic and realistic threats, SDO, political attitudes, and intergroup contact in endorsing punitive immigration policies.

Intergroup Threat and Outgroup Attitudes

2013 ◽  
Vol 44 (5) ◽  
pp. 311-319 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marco Brambilla ◽  
David A. Butz
Keyword(s):  
Gay Men ◽  
Social Group ◽  
Welfare Recipients ◽  
Intergroup Attitudes ◽  
Social Policies ◽  
Intergroup Threat ◽  
Economic Threat ◽  
The Impact ◽  
General Climate

Two studies examined the impact of macrolevel symbolic threat on intergroup attitudes. In Study 1 (N = 71), participants exposed to a macrosymbolic threat (vs. nonsymbolic threat and neutral topic) reported less support toward social policies concerning gay men, an outgroup whose stereotypes implies a threat to values, but not toward welfare recipients, a social group whose stereotypes do not imply a threat to values. Study 2 (N = 78) showed that, whereas macrolevel symbolic threat led to less favorable attitudes toward gay men, macroeconomic threat led to less favorable attitudes toward Asians, an outgroup whose stereotypes imply an economic threat. These findings are discussed in terms of their implications for understanding the role of a general climate of threat in shaping intergroup attitudes.

COVID-19 protective model: the role of threat perceptions and informational cues in influencing behavior

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
Yerina S. Ranjit ◽  
Haejung Shin ◽  
Jennifer M. First ◽  
J. Brian Houston
Keyword(s):  
Threat Perceptions ◽  
Informational Cues

Integration policies and threat perceptions following the European migration crisis: New insights into the policy-threat nexus

2021 ◽  
pp. 002071522110506
Author(s):  
David De Coninck ◽  
Giacomo Solano ◽  
Willem Joris ◽  
Bart Meuleman ◽  
Leen d’Haenens
Keyword(s):  
Integration Policy ◽  
Media Freedom ◽  
Threat Perceptions ◽  
Integration Policies ◽  
Migrant Integration ◽  
Migration Crisis ◽  
Policy Threat ◽  
European Migration ◽  
Do So

The link between integration policies and intergroup attitudes or threat perceptions has received considerable attention. However, no studies so far have been able to explore how this relationship changed following the European migration crisis due to a lack of recent comparative policy data. Using new MIPEX data, this is the first study to examine mechanisms underlying the policy-threat nexus following the European migration crisis, distinguishing between several strands of integration policies, and realistic and symbolic threat. To do so, we combine 2017 Eurobarometer data with 2017 Migrant Integration Policy data, resulting in a sample of 28,080 respondents nested in 28 countries. The analyses also control for economic conditions, outgroup size, and media freedom. Multilevel analyses indicate that respondents living in countries with more inclusive integration policies in general report lower realistic and symbolic threat. When investigating different policy strands, we find that inclusive policies regarding political participation and access to nationality for immigrants are associated with lower realistic and symbolic threat. We compare our findings to those from prior to the European migration crisis and discuss the potential role of this crisis in the policy-threat nexus.

The Role of Mexican Immigrants in the United States on the Imagined and Invented Traditions in Mexico’s Regional Cities

2019 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
pp. 197-213
Author(s):  
Fuyuki Makino ◽  
Shinji Hirai
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Mexican Immigrants ◽  
Great Influence ◽  
The United States ◽  
Global Cities ◽  
Global Migration ◽  
The Core ◽  
Bidirectional Relationship ◽  
Invented Traditions

Mexican immigrants who move to the United States exert great influence on the reproduction of tradition in regional Mexican cities. This study examined the “changes in vistas” that appear due to the frequent migration that connects global cities with sending societies. The emphasis here is on the realities in which residents upgrade their living spaces using traditionality with their own unique strategies (posttraditional vistas), despite social and financial restrictions. Employing ethnographic methods and measurement surveys of housing, this study focused on Jalostotitlán, Jalisco, Mexico. It was found that changes in the vista of Jalostotitlán have not resulted from the unidirectional impact of people, goods, and money flowing from global cities; rather, they have arisen from the bidirectional relationship between immigrants and their hometowns. This research helps to depict another factor for discussions of the global migration narrative by placing regional cities at the core.

Living in the past: The impact of victimization memory on threat perceptions

2017 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 405-421 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ainius Lašas ◽  
Rocio Garcia-Retamero ◽  
Vaida Jankauskaitė ◽  
Vitalija Simonaitytė
Keyword(s):  
Framing Effects ◽  
Intergroup Conflict ◽  
Threat Perception ◽  
Threat Perceptions ◽  
The Past ◽  
Power Asymmetries ◽  
The Impact

Threat perception is a key issue defining intergroup conflict dynamics. To date, it has been linked with power asymmetries and value similarities between groups. This article examines the role of victimization memory in threat construction. The results of an experiment converge to suggest that personal and institutional victimization memories are robust predictors of the levels of threat perception. They act as primary references in the assessment of threat and suppress framing effects. The findings have significant implications for the theory of threat perception.

scholarly journals Islam in the Balance

2015 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 123-126
Author(s):  
Amr G.E. Sabet
Keyword(s):  
Saudi Arabia ◽  
National Security ◽  
Soft Power ◽  
Dimensional Change ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Threat Perception ◽  
Threat Perceptions ◽  
Political Ideologies

This concise and important book deals with the dimensional change in internationalconflicts and security pertaining to the power of ideas: Do ideas and/or political ideologies threaten the security of regimes and states in ways thatdiffer from those conventionally attributed to the mere balance of militarypower? By studying the role of religious or transnational ideology in the MiddleEast in particular, the study aims to advance an understanding of “how,why, and when ideology affects threat perception and state policy” (p. vii) viatwo aspects, one related to ideational threat perception and the other toideational balancing. Together they provide an analytical framework for understandingstrategic interaction as an “ideational security dilemma” (p. vii)with a specific focus on how Egypt and Saudi Arabia have responded to threatperceptions emanating both from the rise and the activities of Iran and Sudan.These four dyads attempt to examine changes in threat perceptions before andafter Islamists came to power in the latter two countries (p. 4). The idea behind this dyadic approach is to show how threat perceptionsto national security are not altered due to increased hard power capabilities,but rather due to soft power projections. Rubin makes the interesting pointthat Egypt and Saudi Arabia felt more threatened by a militarily weak Sudanas well as a militarily degraded post-revolutionary Iran far more than theydid during the time of the militarily powerful Shah (pp. 2-3). Much of thishas to do with the point that it is not mere ideology or ideas that pose a threatto national security, but rather that they become so in their “projected” form(p. 4).The following six chapters elaborate on this simple and straightforward,yet highly significant and relevant, proposition. In the introductory chapter,Rubin develops his framework of analysis (the “ideational securitydilemma”) and makes it clear that one of the study’s main purposes is “totake ideology seriously.” This is done within the realist framework that acceptsthe centrality of the state, as well as that of neo-classical realism (p.124) which focuses on the foreign policy emanating from domestic culturaland perceptual variables (p. 18). The study refocuses attention on ideationalprojections that resonate with a foreign domestic audience and that may consequentlybring about a transnational response, thereby exacerbating internalsocietal unrest ...

scholarly journals Social sustainability and social (Dis)trust in outgroups: Evidence from Germany and Spain using the Factorial Survey

2021 ◽  
pp. 81-109
Author(s):  
Edurne Bartolomé ◽  
Hermann Dülmer ◽  
Lluís Coromina
Keyword(s):  
Social Identity Theory ◽  
Ethnic Diversity ◽  
Negative Relationship ◽  
Factorial Survey ◽  
Threat Perceptions ◽  
Economic Threat ◽  
Weak Evidence ◽  
The Cold War ◽  
The Impact ◽  
First Time

In the short to medium term, ethnic diversity tends to reduce trust. This negative relationship can be explained by social identity theory and integrated threat theory. The latter theory distinguishes realistic (socio-economic) threat perceptions from symbolic (cultural) ones. Huntington believes that with the end of the Cold War, conflicts shifted from being primarily economic to cultural, mainly religious ones. The goal of this article is to disentangle for the first time the impact of different sources of perceived threat as well as of in-group/out-group–based differences on trust by using a factorial survey conducted in Bilbao (Spain) and Cologne (Germany). Our main findings are that although both towns differ in religious and socio-economic composition, their citizens possess a similar level of generalised trust and perceive socio-economic threat as being much stronger than cultural threat. Weak evidence is also found for in-group/out-group–based differences in particularised trust. Recibido: 03 February 2021Aceptado: 10 March 2021

scholarly journals Ventanillas de Salud: Defeating challenges in healthcare access for Mexican immigrants in the United States

2020 ◽  
Vol 21 ◽  
Author(s):  
Valeria Marina Valle ◽  
Wilma Laura Gandoy Vázquez ◽  
Karla Angélica Valenzuela Moreno
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Mexican Immigrants ◽  
Healthcare Access ◽  
Healthcare Services ◽  
The United States ◽  
Access To Health Services ◽  
Government Officials ◽  
Access To Health ◽  
Mexican Government

The 2010 Affordable Care Act (ACA) improved access to healthcare in the United States. However, immigrants —especially those undocumented— still faced difficulties, which have increased during the Trump administration. In order to bring access to health services to its nationals, the Mexican government has implemented the Health Windows Program (Ventanillas de Salud, or VDS). The article reviews changes in the U.S. healthcare system from the ACA to date, and assesses the role of VDS. The methodology is qualitative, consisting of a literature review, interviews with community leaders and Mexican government officials, and questionnaires sent to four VDS: Arizona, Florida, Idaho and Texas. Results show that VDS provide reliable and affordable access to basic healthcare services, and detection of chronic and non-communicable diseases, especially within undocumented immigrants. Public policy recommendations are offered based on these findings. Limitations of the study include the data collected, which is non-representative of all VDS.

scholarly journals Variations in Healthcare Access and Utilization Among Mexican Immigrants: The Role of Documentation Status

2010 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 146-155 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arturo Vargas Bustamante ◽  
Hai Fang ◽  
Jeremiah Garza ◽  
Olivia Carter-Pokras ◽  
Steven P. Wallace ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mexican Immigrants ◽  
Healthcare Access ◽  
Documentation Status ◽  
Healthcare Access And Utilization
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