More Royalist Than the King? Immigration Policy Attitudes Among Naturalized Citizens

2020 ◽  
Vol 41 (3) ◽  
pp. 607-625 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emanuele Politi ◽  
Marion Chipeaux ◽  
Fabio Lorenzi‐Cioldi ◽  
Christian Staerklé
Keyword(s):  
Immigration Policy ◽  
Naturalized Citizens ◽  
Policy Attitudes

How Dehumanization Influences Attitudes toward Immigrants

2017 ◽  
Vol 71 (2) ◽  
pp. 440-452 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen M. Utych
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Data ◽  
Immigration Policy ◽  
Emotional Responses ◽  
Negative Attitudes ◽  
Attitudes Toward Immigrants ◽  
Policy Attitudes ◽  
Immigration Attitudes ◽  
Original Experimental Data

Immigrants, as a group, are frequently described in ways, such as vermin or disease, that portray them as less than human. This type of dehumanizing language leads to negative emotional responses and negative attitudes toward the dehumanized group. This paper examines how the dehumanization of immigrants influences immigration policy attitudes. I use original experimental data to show that dehumanization leads to more negative immigration attitudes. I further find that these negative attitudes are mediated by the role of emotion. Dehumanization increases anger and disgust toward immigrants, which causes anti-immigrant sentiment.

scholarly journals Self-Interest, Beliefs, and Policy Opinions

2017 ◽  
Vol 70 (1) ◽  
pp. 155-171 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan S. Gerber ◽  
Gregory A. Huber ◽  
Daniel R. Biggers ◽  
David J. Hendry
Keyword(s):  
Immigration Policy ◽  
Economic Effects ◽  
Economic Factors ◽  
Skill Levels ◽  
Market Effects ◽  
Policy Attitudes ◽  
Self Interest ◽  
Skilled Immigration ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Attitudes Toward Immigration

Research on how economic factors affect attitudes toward immigration often focuses on labor market effects, concluding that, because workers’ skill levels do not predict opposition to low- versus highly skilled immigration, economic self-interest does not shape policy attitudes. We conduct a new survey to measure beliefs about a range of economic, political, and cultural consequences of immigration. When economic self-interest is broadened to include concerns about the fiscal burdens created by immigration, beliefs about these economic effects strongly correlate with immigration attitudes and explain a significant share of the difference in support for highly versus low-skilled immigration. Although cultural factors are important, our results suggest that previous work underestimates the importance of economic self-interest as a source of immigration policy preferences and attitudes more generally.

Group Empathy in Response to Nonverbal Racial/Ethnic Cues

2016 ◽  
Vol 60 (14) ◽  
pp. 1676-1697 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cigdem V. Sirin ◽  
Nicholas A. Valentino ◽  
José D. Villalobos
Keyword(s):  
Immigration Policy ◽  
Undocumented Immigration ◽  
Survey Experiment ◽  
Disadvantaged Groups ◽  
Policy Attitudes ◽  
Cultural Experiences ◽  
Trait Level ◽  
Ethnic Cues ◽  
Racial Ethnic ◽  
Level Group

In this study, we argue that nonverbal racial/ethnic cues can activate one’s empathy toward disadvantaged out-groups, particularly when such cues resonate with one’s own in-group cultural experiences with discrimination. To explain this phenomenon, we propose Group Empathy Theory and test our expectations via a national survey experiment on undocumented immigration. We find trait-level group empathy is strongly linked with empathic reactions to vignettes depicting immigrant detainees in distress, which in turn affect immigration policy attitudes. We also find African Americans and Latinos are considerably more likely than Anglos to exhibit empathy for disadvantaged groups other than their own and oppose deportation policies aimed at undocumented immigrants.

Race, Religion, and Immigration Policy Attitudes

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 4-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Khari Brown ◽  
Ronald E. Brown
Keyword(s):  
Immigration Policy ◽  
Policy Attitudes ◽  
Religion And Immigration

Framing Labels and Immigration Policy Attitudes in the Iowa Caucuses: “Trying to Out-Tancredo Tancredo”

2010 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 433-454 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benjamin R. Knoll ◽  
David P. Redlawsk ◽  
Howard Sanborn
Keyword(s):  
Immigration Policy ◽  
Policy Attitudes

scholarly journals Threatened or Threatening? How Ideology Shapes Asylum Seekers’ Immigration Policy Attitudes in Israel and Australia

2016 ◽  
Vol 29 (4) ◽  
pp. 583-606 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daphna Canetti ◽  
Keren L. G. Snider ◽  
Anne Pedersen ◽  
Brian J. Hall
Keyword(s):  
Immigration Policy ◽  
Asylum Seekers ◽  
Policy Attitudes

scholarly journals Bridging the Partisan Divide on Immigration Policy Attitudes through a Bipartisan Issue Area: The Case of Human Trafficking

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 107-120 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tabitha Bonilla ◽  
Cecilia Hyunjung Mo
Keyword(s):  
Human Trafficking ◽  
Immigration Policy ◽  
Immigration Policies ◽  
Attitudes Toward Immigrants ◽  
Issue Area ◽  
General Support ◽  
Policy Attitudes ◽  
Positive Attitudes ◽  
Survey Experiments ◽  
Positive Sentiment

AbstractTo date, while there is a rich literature describing the determinants of anti-immigrant sentiment, researchers have not identified a mechanism to reduce antipathy toward immigrants. In fact, extant research has shown that efforts to induce positive attitudes toward immigrants often backfire. What if a bridging frame strategy were employed? Can a bipartisan issue area in which there is general support act as a bridging frame to elicit more positive sentiment toward immigration among those who oppose more open immigration policies? We explore this question by conducting two survey experiments in which we manipulate whether immigration is linked with the bipartisan issue area of human trafficking. We find that in forcing individuals to reconcile the fact that a widely accepted issue position of combating trafficking also requires a reassessment of immigration policies, we can positively shift attitudes on immigration.

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