Local policy proposals can bridge Latino and (most) white Americans' response to immigration.

ABSTRACT: In the past 15 years, the adoption of subnational immigration policies in the United States, such as those established by individual states, has gone from nearly zero to over 300 per year. These include welcoming policies aimed at attracting and incorporating immigrants, as well as unwelcoming policies directed at denying immigrants access to public resources and services. Using data from a 2016 random digit-dialing telephone survey with an embedded experiment, we examine whether institutional support for policies that are either welcoming or hostile toward immigrants differentially shape Latinos' and whites' feelings of belonging in their state (Arizona/New Mexico, adjacent states with contrasting immigration policies). We randomly assigned individuals from the representative sample (n

SUBMITTER: Huo YJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5798327 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature