Project Subject Area                                                                                                                  

• Immigration                   
• Racial Identity
• Demography
• Sociology
•  Migration Studies 

Project Details                                                                                                                           

 The analyses of two waves of nationally representative US panel survey data for whites demonstrate that voting for Trump, consuming conservative news, being evangelical, and having a stronger white racial identity were linked with more exclusionary abstract immigration attitudes and/or support for one more Trump-era policies: the US-Mexico wall, the Travel Ban targeting majority-Muslim countries, and deportations of unauthorized immigrants. Together, our results emphasize the value of attending to multiple aspects of the national sociopolitical context, considering diverse potential sources that amplify immigration threat, and jointly examining abstract immigration attitudes and specific policy preferences of varying salience.

Research Team                                                                                                                           

• Eileen Diaz McConnell, Author, President’s Professor (School of Transborder Studies) at Arizona State University
• Lisa M. Martinez, Professor of Sociology at the University of Denver

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