American attitudes toward immigrants and immigration policy

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Label

American attitudes toward immigrants and immigration policy

Statement of responsibility

Michael Sobczak

Creator

• Sobczak, Michael

Subject

• Immigrants -- United States -- Public opinion
• Public opinion -- United States
• United States -- Emigration and immigration | Government policy | Public opinion

Language

eng

Summary

Sobczak examines the impact of local structural conditions on Americans? attitudes toward immigrants and immigration policy. Results indicate social structure strongly predicts views of immigration policy, while shaping views of immigrants indirectly. Contrary to expectations, more favorable views of immigrants and immigration are elicited by residents of locales where structural conditions foster increased levels of intergroup association. Yet, the liberalizing effects of heterogeneous social structures do not extend to locales with precarious economic conditions or heightened levels of inter

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• The new Americans : recent immigration and American society

Cataloging source

CaPaEBR

Dewey number

325.73

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

JV6483

LC item number

.S63 2010eb

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

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