Just Not Like Us
The Interactive Impact of Dimensions of Identity and Race in Attitudes towards Immigration
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5935969 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jennifer Byrnes, Jennifer Byrne (James Madison University), Graham Dixon (0000-0001-7810-940X, University of West Georgia, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 5 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 59 |
| Publication date | 2016-10-08 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social Sciences (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2076-0760 • E-ISSN: 2076-0760 |
| Publisher | MDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT) |
| DOI | 10.3390/socsci5040059 |
| OpenAlex | W2528867654 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 36 |
Since 2009, more Mexicans have been leaving rather than coming to the USA; likewise, illegal immigration from Mexico has declined. Yet, immigration remains a hotly contested issue in the 2016 presidential election, with a seemingly marked increase in anti-immigrant policy and rhetoric, much of which is directed at immigrants from Mexico. In this paper, we seek to explain how individual ethnocultural and civic-based conceptions of what it means to be an American influence attitudes towards immigration. Past theoretical research on national identity has framed the effects of these dimensions as interactive but past empirical work has yet to demonstrate an important interaction between race and ethnocultural identity. Failure to account for these interaction effects has led to inaccurate assumptions about the levels of hostility towards immigrants and how widespread anti-immigrant sentiment really is. We demonstrate a clear interactive effect between identification as white and ethnocultural dimensions of identity and show that this effect has masked the root of the most ardent anti-immigrant sentiment. We also show that while there is a sizeable minority of the population that identifies as both white and have high levels of ethnocultural identity, a majority of Americans prefer to keep immigration levels at the status quo and have an identity that is balanced between ethnoculturalism and civic-based conceptions of identity
Identity (music · Immigration · Political science · Population · Race (biology · Rhetoric · Sociology · White (mutation · Demography · Gender Studies · Law · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Populism, Right-Wing Movements · Psychology · Social and Intergroup Psychology · Social Psychology
Who are we?
Who Counts as an American?
Generalized Ordered Logit/Partial Proportional Odds Models for Ordinal Dependent Variables
Culture, National Identity, and Admission to Citizenship
Americanism in the Twenty-First Century
Ethnicity without Groups
The More Things Change…American Identity and Mass and Elite Responses to 9/11
Explaining Attitudes toward Immigrants and Immigration Policy
National Identity and Attitudes toward Immigrants in a “Multicreedal” America
Reevaluating American Attitudes toward Immigrants in the Twenty‐First Century
The Nature of Citizenship in the United States and Great Britain
An analysis of public opinion toward undocumented immigration
Perceptions of national identity and attitudes toward immigrants and immigration in Canada and Germany
Civil Liberties vs. Security
Quedate o Vente
Educated Preferences
National Identities, National Pride and Xenophobia
Contemporary American Attitudes toward U.S. Immigration
National Debates, Local Responses
Public Opinion Toward Immigration Reform
Defining American Identity in the Twenty-First Century
American Identity and the Politics of Ethnic Change
African American Voting on Proposition 187
Anxiety, Immigration, and the Search for Information
Beyond the civic-ethnic dichotomy
Hypothesis Testing and Multiplicative Interaction Terms
American Patriotism, National Identity, and Political Involvement
What Triggers Public Opposition to Immigration? Anxiety, Group Cues, and Immigration Threat
Economic Insecurity, Prejudicial Stereotypes, and Public Opinion on Immigration Policy
The Sources and Consequences of National Identification
The Dynamics of Public Opinion on Ethnic Profiling After 9/11
The "American Creed" and American Identity
Diversity and Commonality in National Identities
Warmth of the Welcome
Individual and Societal Bases of National Identity. A Comparative Multi-Level Analysis
| Citations per year | 0.25 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2018 - 2022 (5) |
| Highly cited | No |