A Ponce
Biographic Data
| ID | 5458 |
|---|---|
| NAME | A Ponce |
| GIVEN NAMES | A |
| FAMILY NAME | Ponce |
| SIGNATURE | PONCE A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Indiana University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8367-9869 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 57 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
How Do Intergroup Contact and Cultural Racism Shape Anti-Muslim Sentiment in Europe
A genealogy of Islamophobia in a global critical race framework: Religion, Whiteness, and Controlling Rationality
Contemporary Islamophobia, while pervasive in the West, has now escalated in societies as distinct as China, India, Myanmar, and Israel in the post-9/11 era. Yet, Islamophobia is not something new, with roots from the centuries after Islam's founding. This study argues that a global-historical framework is necessary to fully understand Islamophobia's origins and impact. It extends previous global critical race and racism frameworks and their focu…
Ethnoracist exclusion and anti-immigrant sentiment in Europe: A hybrid model analysis using the European Social Survey, 2002–2016
The literature on anti-immigrant sentiment analyzes generalized threat—rooted in a mix of cultural and economic anxieties—but relies on a theoretical foundation based on the study of race. This is puzzling since research on immigration attitudes has developed theoretical and empirical blind spots regarding the relevance of race-ethnicity. This study engages with race theories to show that racialization and symbolic racism constitute a primary axi…
The Religious Foundations of Welfare, Social Inclusion, and Anti‐Immigrant Attitudes in Europe
This paper unites disparate literature to test the influence of religious belonging and behavior characteristics along with secular welfare boundaries on anti‐immigrant attitudes. We suggest that welfare states varied in their religious foundations during the transition from religious‐based solidarity to modern state‐based solidarity and formulate a novel analytical framework to hypothesize effects across individuals and welfare regime types. Usi…
Affective solidarities or group boundaries? Muslims' place in America's racial and religious order
Muslims in the U.S. have been politically targeted as a threat to the nation. Yet, little is known about how most Americans' attitudes are formed toward this growing group. While often othered in terms of their religion, race-ethnicity, and national background, Muslims also constitute the latest minority group in America's racialized landscape. This study draws on theories of race-ethnicity, intergroup relations, and religious exclusion to situat…
Is Welfare a Magnet for Migration? Examining Universal Welfare Institutions and Migration Flows
This study extends macro-structural research on international migration flows by going beyond conventional economic, demographic, and geographic explanations. Prior extensions suggest that migrants are drawn to places where welfare benefits are generous. I test the welfare magnet hypothesis while proposing an alternative explanation for migration: the prospect for inclusion. The analysis uses a comprehensive point-to-point migration dataset for a…
Histories of Conquest, Diversity, and Social Cohesion in Former Colonial Europe
Research has overlooked the influence of countries’ colonizing histories on how present-day diversity shapes forms of social cohesion. Ethnic boundary theories suggest that legacies of colonizing external territories could strengthen the boundaries that separate natives from foreign migrants. Alternatively, colonization could simply give countries greater experience with foreign populations over time, thus diffusing boundaries through sustained i…
Excluding Europe’s Muslims: Symbolic Boundaries and Anti-immigrant Attitudes Along a Racial–Ethnic Hierarchy
Research has shown that immigrants in Europe face exclusion in an increasingly hostile political climate. However, few studies comprehensively investigate whether exclusionism is patterned by a pervasive race–ethnicity hierarchy. This article bridges anti-immigrant attitudes research with the symbolic boundaries literature, which identifies Islam and Muslim “otherness” as a bright ethnic boundary. I use 2014 European Social Survey data to test wh…
Gender and Anti-immigrant Attitudes in Europe
Gender emerges as a key site of contestation with respect to immigrants’ integration and public presence in Europe. The recent politicization of gender and Islam in immigration debates marks an increasingly salient constructed opposition between egalitarian European values and traditional immigrant cultures. Against this background, this study investigates how gender structures attitudes toward immigrants of different economic and cultural profil…
From Macrostructural Forces to Social Connectedness: Uncovering the Determinants of South–South Migration
Current perspectives on international migration emphasize conventional macrostructural influences on flows and focus nearly exclusively on migration from South to North. Given this limited framework, and the rapid growth of South–South migration, important questions remain: Do other factors acknowledged in the theoretical literature, but not yet systematically tested, also affect migration flows? Are South–North models appropriate for explaining …
Data Bases and Statistical Systems: Overview
Framing Strategies and Public Support for the Legalization of Marriage between Two People of the Same Sex
Over the past few decades, public debate about the legalization of marriage between people of the same sex has changed and intensified. Participants in the current debate have introduced new terms such as 'same-sex couples' instead of 'homosexual couples' to describe the subjects of this issue. Recently, this contentious issue has also been framed as a matter of 'civil rights' rather than another case of 'gay rights.' To date, however, scholars h…
Gender and Anti-immigrant Attitudes in Europe
Gender emerges as a key site of contestation with respect to immigrants’ integration and public presence in Europe. The recent politicization of gender and Islam in immigration debates marks an increasingly salient constructed opposition between egalitarian European values and traditional immigrant cultures. Against this background, this study investigates how gender structures attitudes toward immigrants of different economic and cultural profil…
Framing Strategies and Public Support for the Legalization of Marriage between Two People of the Same Sex
Over the past few decades, public debate about the legalization of marriage between people of the same sex has changed and intensified. Participants in the current debate have introduced new terms such as 'same-sex couples' instead of 'homosexual couples' to describe the subjects of this issue. Recently, this contentious issue has also been framed as a matter of 'civil rights' rather than another case of 'gay rights.' To date, however, scholars h…
Excluding Europe’s Muslims: Symbolic Boundaries and Anti-immigrant Attitudes Along a Racial–Ethnic Hierarchy
Research has shown that immigrants in Europe face exclusion in an increasingly hostile political climate. However, few studies comprehensively investigate whether exclusionism is patterned by a pervasive race–ethnicity hierarchy. This article bridges anti-immigrant attitudes research with the symbolic boundaries literature, which identifies Islam and Muslim “otherness” as a bright ethnic boundary. I use 2014 European Social Survey data to test wh…
Affective solidarities or group boundaries? Muslims' place in America's racial and religious order
Muslims in the U.S. have been politically targeted as a threat to the nation. Yet, little is known about how most Americans' attitudes are formed toward this growing group. While often othered in terms of their religion, race-ethnicity, and national background, Muslims also constitute the latest minority group in America's racialized landscape. This study draws on theories of race-ethnicity, intergroup relations, and religious exclusion to situat…
A genealogy of Islamophobia in a global critical race framework: Religion, Whiteness, and Controlling Rationality
Contemporary Islamophobia, while pervasive in the West, has now escalated in societies as distinct as China, India, Myanmar, and Israel in the post-9/11 era. Yet, Islamophobia is not something new, with roots from the centuries after Islam's founding. This study argues that a global-historical framework is necessary to fully understand Islamophobia's origins and impact. It extends previous global critical race and racism frameworks and their focu…
From Macrostructural Forces to Social Connectedness: Uncovering the Determinants of South–South Migration
Current perspectives on international migration emphasize conventional macrostructural influences on flows and focus nearly exclusively on migration from South to North. Given this limited framework, and the rapid growth of South–South migration, important questions remain: Do other factors acknowledged in the theoretical literature, but not yet systematically tested, also affect migration flows? Are South–North models appropriate for explaining …
Ethnoracist exclusion and anti-immigrant sentiment in Europe: A hybrid model analysis using the European Social Survey, 2002–2016
The literature on anti-immigrant sentiment analyzes generalized threat—rooted in a mix of cultural and economic anxieties—but relies on a theoretical foundation based on the study of race. This is puzzling since research on immigration attitudes has developed theoretical and empirical blind spots regarding the relevance of race-ethnicity. This study engages with race theories to show that racialization and symbolic racism constitute a primary axi…
Framing Strategies and Public Support for the Legalization of Marriage between Two People of the Same Sex
Over the past few decades, public debate about the legalization of marriage between people of the same sex has changed and intensified. Participants in the current debate have introduced new terms such as 'same-sex couples' instead of 'homosexual couples' to describe the subjects of this issue. Recently, this contentious issue has also been framed as a matter of 'civil rights' rather than another case of 'gay rights.' To date, however, scholars h…
Data Bases and Statistical Systems: Overview
From Macrostructural Forces to Social Connectedness: Uncovering the Determinants of South–South Migration
Current perspectives on international migration emphasize conventional macrostructural influences on flows and focus nearly exclusively on migration from South to North. Given this limited framework, and the rapid growth of South–South migration, important questions remain: Do other factors acknowledged in the theoretical literature, but not yet systematically tested, also affect migration flows? Are South–North models appropriate for explaining …
Gender and Anti-immigrant Attitudes in Europe
Gender emerges as a key site of contestation with respect to immigrants’ integration and public presence in Europe. The recent politicization of gender and Islam in immigration debates marks an increasingly salient constructed opposition between egalitarian European values and traditional immigrant cultures. Against this background, this study investigates how gender structures attitudes toward immigrants of different economic and cultural profil…
Is Welfare a Magnet for Migration? Examining Universal Welfare Institutions and Migration Flows
This study extends macro-structural research on international migration flows by going beyond conventional economic, demographic, and geographic explanations. Prior extensions suggest that migrants are drawn to places where welfare benefits are generous. I test the welfare magnet hypothesis while proposing an alternative explanation for migration: the prospect for inclusion. The analysis uses a comprehensive point-to-point migration dataset for a…
Histories of Conquest, Diversity, and Social Cohesion in Former Colonial Europe
Research has overlooked the influence of countries’ colonizing histories on how present-day diversity shapes forms of social cohesion. Ethnic boundary theories suggest that legacies of colonizing external territories could strengthen the boundaries that separate natives from foreign migrants. Alternatively, colonization could simply give countries greater experience with foreign populations over time, thus diffusing boundaries through sustained i…
Excluding Europe’s Muslims: Symbolic Boundaries and Anti-immigrant Attitudes Along a Racial–Ethnic Hierarchy
Research has shown that immigrants in Europe face exclusion in an increasingly hostile political climate. However, few studies comprehensively investigate whether exclusionism is patterned by a pervasive race–ethnicity hierarchy. This article bridges anti-immigrant attitudes research with the symbolic boundaries literature, which identifies Islam and Muslim “otherness” as a bright ethnic boundary. I use 2014 European Social Survey data to test wh…
Affective solidarities or group boundaries? Muslims' place in America's racial and religious order
Muslims in the U.S. have been politically targeted as a threat to the nation. Yet, little is known about how most Americans' attitudes are formed toward this growing group. While often othered in terms of their religion, race-ethnicity, and national background, Muslims also constitute the latest minority group in America's racialized landscape. This study draws on theories of race-ethnicity, intergroup relations, and religious exclusion to situat…
The Religious Foundations of Welfare, Social Inclusion, and Anti‐Immigrant Attitudes in Europe
This paper unites disparate literature to test the influence of religious belonging and behavior characteristics along with secular welfare boundaries on anti‐immigrant attitudes. We suggest that welfare states varied in their religious foundations during the transition from religious‐based solidarity to modern state‐based solidarity and formulate a novel analytical framework to hypothesize effects across individuals and welfare regime types. Usi…
Ethnoracist exclusion and anti-immigrant sentiment in Europe: A hybrid model analysis using the European Social Survey, 2002–2016
The literature on anti-immigrant sentiment analyzes generalized threat—rooted in a mix of cultural and economic anxieties—but relies on a theoretical foundation based on the study of race. This is puzzling since research on immigration attitudes has developed theoretical and empirical blind spots regarding the relevance of race-ethnicity. This study engages with race theories to show that racialization and symbolic racism constitute a primary axi…
How Do Intergroup Contact and Cultural Racism Shape Anti-Muslim Sentiment in Europe
A genealogy of Islamophobia in a global critical race framework: Religion, Whiteness, and Controlling Rationality
Contemporary Islamophobia, while pervasive in the West, has now escalated in societies as distinct as China, India, Myanmar, and Israel in the post-9/11 era. Yet, Islamophobia is not something new, with roots from the centuries after Islam's founding. This study argues that a global-historical framework is necessary to fully understand Islamophobia's origins and impact. It extends previous global critical race and racism frameworks and their focu…
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