When Organizations Matter
Threatening Demographics, Supportive Politics, and Immigration Lawmaking 1
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 24316049 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kim Ebert, Emily P Estrada (0000-0002-5581-084X), Michelle Halla Lore |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 387-417 |
| Publication date | 2014-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Du Bois Review Social Science Research on Race (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1742-058X • E-ISSN: 1742-0598 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s1742058x14000125 |
| OpenAlex | W2941260383 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 86 |
Increasingly, scholars have argued that immigration politics are inseparable from racial politics, which implies that organizations and individuals who mobilize around racial group interests influence racial and immigration attitudes and behaviors. How does the racial-political context influence anti-immigration lawmaking? In what ways does this influence vary at different stages of lawmaking? To address these questions, we combine comprehensive datasets of racially conservative organizations and state immigrant legislation and use negative binomial regression to estimate the count of anti-immigrant bills and laws in the fifty states from 1991 to 2010. We find that the presence of racially conservative organizations encourages the introduction of exclusionary proposals, but only in contexts with a Republican-dominated government. At the approval stage, on the other hand, racially conservative organizations foster the passage of exclusionary laws, and this effect is heightened in contexts with a growing foreign-born population or where a majority of voters report anti-immigrant opinions or identify as conservative. This indicates that the institutionalization of the colorblind racial ideology (in the form of racially conservative organizations) resonates with lawmakers, but in a different manner when the stakes are higher. These findings have important implications and challenge previous research on the conditions under which advocacy organizations influence lawmaking and additional forms of group behavior.
advocacy organizations · anti-immigrant legislation · anti-immigrant sentiment · immigration politics · Racial politics · state immigration law · Electoral Systems and Political Participation · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Populism, Right-Wing Movements
Ideological Legitimacy, Color-blindness, and Racially Conservative Organizations
Legitimating Contexts, Immigrant Power, and Exclusionary Actions
Apathy and Antipathy
Deportation Discretion
Anti-Immigrant Ordinances and Discrimination in New and Established Destinations
Group Boundaries, Immigrant Inclusion, and the Politics of Immigrant-Native Relations
Symbolic Politics of the State
Examining the Reach of Color Blindness
From Shared Demographic Categories to Common Political Destinies
Racial Apathy and Hurricane Katrina
“Juan Crow” in the Nuevo South?
The dynamics of ethnic competition and conflict.
Organizing for equality
New Destination Dreaming
Toward a Theory of Minority Group Relations
Ethnic and Racial Consciousness
The Blackwell Companion to Social Movements
A Hero for the Aged? The Townsend Movement, the Political Mediation Model, and U.S. Old-Age Policy, 1934-1950
Political Context and Opportunity
Politics as Symbolic Action
Social Citizenship, Integration and Collective Action
“I Am Not a Racist But…”
The Impact of Public Opinion on Public Policy
The Variegated Landscape of Local Immigration Policies in the United States
Immigration Policing Through the Backdoor
Prejudice as a Response to Perceived Group Threat
Immigrants' Tanf Eligibility, 1996–2003
Bright vs. blurred boundaries
The Analysis of Count Data
Bringing Back the (B)order
Illegality at Work
Guess Who's Coming to Town
Amplifying Public Opinion
Race and the Response of State Legislatures to Unauthorized Immigrants
Race Prejudice as a Sense of Group Position
Immigration Crackdown in the American Workplace
Natural Increase
Anti-Immigrant Attitudes in Europe
Advocacy Organizations in the U.S. Political Process
From bi-racial to tri-racial
Age for Leisure? Political Mediation and the Impact of the Pension Movement on U.S. Old-Age Policy
Latino Mobilization in New Immigrant Destinations
Measuring State Partisanship and Ideology with Survey Data
Immigration Restriction in the States
Signals or Mixed Signals
Explaining Social Movement Outcomes
Studying Substantive Democracy
The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978
Organizing for Equality
An Introduction to Sample Selection Bias in Sociological Data
Education and Intergroup Attitudes
Mobilization at the Margins
Perceptions of Racial Group Competition
Racial Rioting in the 1960S
A Theory of Ethnic Antagonism
When Do Movements Matter? The Politics of Contingency and the Equal Rights Amendment
The Political Sociology of the Death Penalty
Stolen Thunder? Huey Long's "Share Our Wealth," Political Mediation, and the Second New Deal
Social Movements and Policy Implementation
Toward a Theory of Panethnicity
Making the News
Hate Crime Reporting as a Successful Social Movement Outcome
A Geopolitics of Engagement
Activists and Partisan Realignment in the United States
Dynamic Representation
Politicized Places
Conceptualizing Political Opportunity
Winning Woman Suffrage One Step at a Time
Protest and Policymaking
The Ties That Bind and Those That Don't
Institutional Panethnicity
Political Process and the Development of Black Insurgency, 1930-1970
Beyond the Ballot
Structural Social Change and the Mobilizing Effect of Threat
The New Politics of Immigration
Structured Ignorance and Organized Racism in the United States
Racial Policy and Racial Conflict in the Urban United States, 1869-1924
Movement-Countermovement Dynamics and the Emergence of New Institutions
Protest and Political Opportunities
The Study of Boundaries in the Social Sciences
The Political Consequences of Social Movements
What Group?' Studying Whites and Whiteness in the Era of 'Color-Blindness
Anti-Muslim Attitudes in The Netherlands
The Stages of the Policy Process and the Equal Rights Amendment, 1972-1982
The Changing Color of Welfare? How Whites' Attitudes toward Latinos Influence Support for Welfare
Opportunity Organizations and Threat-Induced Contention
School Desegregation, Interracial Exposure, and Antibusing Activity in Contemporary Urban America
Equal Opportunity Law and the Construction of Internal Labor Markets
The Outcomes of Homeless Mobilization
Black church arson in the United States, 1989-1996
They must be discontented
| Citations per year | 0.67 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2014 - 2021 (8) |
| Highly cited | No |