Forging Political Identities and Becoming Citizens

The Political Preferences and Engagement of South American Immigrants in the United States and Spain

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ID3758636
AuthorsNarayani Lasala-Blanco (Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA), Narayani Lasala‐blanco (Arizona State University, corresponding author), Laura Morales (0000-0002-6688-6508, Sciences Po, Centre d’études européennes et de politique comparée (CEE), CNRS, Paris, France), Carles Pamies (0000-0003-4993-2178, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain)
Year2021
Volume65
Issue9
Pages1265-1282
Publication date2021-08-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueAmerican Behavioral Scientist (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0002-7642 • E-ISSN: 1552-3381
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0002764221996752
OpenAlexW3134391766
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited14

Research in the United States has emphasized the importance of anti-immigrant and anti-Hispanic hostility to galvanize shared identities and a sense of linked fate that is electorally mobilized around the pan-ethnic Latino identity. With survey data on the electoral behavior of South American immigrants in the United States and Spain spanning a decade (2006-2018), this article gauges how critical hostility is for electoral mobilization. The findings suggest that-despite very different institutional settings, hostility levels, elite strategies, and political mobilization patterns-South American immigrants are forging remarkably similar patterns of political preferences and engagement across both sides of the Atlantic. The overtime and comparative perspective calls into question that hostility is the main driving force behind Latino electoral participation and block voting in the United States and prompts greater attention to the socioeconomic status of Latinos and mobilization by political parties

Acculturation · Democracy · Demographic economics · Economics · Elite · Ethnic group · Hostility · Immigration · Mobilization · Political mobilization · Political science · Politics · Socioeconomic status · Sociology · Voting · Voting behavior · Demography · Electoral Systems and Political Participation · Gender Studies · Law · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Psychology · Social Media and Politics · Social Psychology

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