Party Identification, Contact, Contexts, and Public Attitudes toward Illegal Immigration.

ABSTRACT: Illegal immigration is a contentious issue on the American policy agenda. To understand the sources of public attitudes toward immigration, social scientists have focused attention on political factors such as party identification; they have also drawn on theories of intergroup contact to argue that contact with immigrants shapes immigration attitudes. Absent direct measures, contextual measures such as respondents' ethnic milieu or proximity to salient geographic features (such as borders) have been used as proxies of contact. Such a research strategy still leaves the question unanswered - is it contact or context that really matters? Further, which context, and for whom? This article evaluates the effects of party identification, personal contact with undocume

SUBMITTER: Gravelle TB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4884820 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature