Foreign Language Exposure, Cultural Threat, and Opposition to Immigration

Newman, Benjamin J.; Hartman, Todd K.; Taber, Charles S.

doi:10.1111/j.1467-9221.2012.00904.x

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“…Perceived threats to a country's distinctive identity and culture drive much anti-immigrant sentiment in the U.S. and elsewhere (Citrin et al 1990;Hainmueller and Hangartner 2013;Schildkraut 2011;Sniderman and Hagendoorn 2007;Wong 2010;Wright et al 2012). Americans almost universally endorse acculturation as a prerequisite to full-fledged membership in the national community-speaking English, holding American values, feeling American, and getting ahead on one's own-and hostility can arise when these conditions are not met (Hainmueller and Hopkins 2014b;Newman et al 2012). Echoes of nineteenth century nativist movements that rejected immigrants who did not match the country's Anglo-Saxon Protestant roots as unassimilable (Smith 1997) also persist in recent work on the ethnocentric and religious bases of anti-immigrant sentiment (e.g.…”

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Public Attitudes Toward Immigration Policy Across the Legal/Illegal Divide: The Role of Categorical and Attribute-Based Decision-Making

2015

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Scholars debate the relative strength of economic and 'socio-psychological' sources of anti-immigrant sentiment. However, the literature often fails to distinguish legal from illegal immigration and therefore overlooks a major instance in which this debate is moot. To address this issue, we develop a theory that recognizes two different modes of evaluating immigrants: ''attribute-based'' judgment, in which respondents weigh immigrants' desirability based on individual characteristics-human capital, race, language ability, and so on-and ''categorical'' judgment, which disregards these altogether. Categorical judgments arise when a policy issue triggers blanket considerations of justice or principle that obviate considerations about putative beneficiaries' individual merits, instead evoking overriding beliefs about the desirability of the policy as a whole or casting the entire category as uniformly deserving or undeserving. We use experimental evidence from two national surveys to show that the principal distinction between attitudes toward legal and illegal immigration is not in the relative weight of immigrants' attributes but the much greater prevalence of categorical assessments of illegal

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Public Attitudes Toward Immigration Policy Across the Legal/Illegal Divide: The Role of Categorical and Attribute-Based Decision-Making

2015

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“…Possibly, this is an oversimplification since research on other types of threat perceptions show that they are caused by a range of factors [28,32,33]. The determinants of climate change threat are presumably different compared to, for example, what affects perceptions about terrorism, but climate change is likely similar in that the perceived threat does not arise on its own.…”

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The Effect of Elite Polarization: A Comparative Perspective on How Party Elites Influence Attitudes and Behavior on Climate Change in the European Union

Sohlberg

2016

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Abstract:There is considerable variability in attitudes towards climate change between citizens of different countries. By using individual-level and country-level data, I examine if this variability in public opinion is partially caused by political party elites. The results show that when elites are united in their support for environmental issues, the perceived threat of climate change is higher than in countries where party elites are divided. The results also demonstrate that the perceived threat influences behavior related to climate change, and that threat mediates the effect of party positions. Consequently, the effect of party elites is stronger than previously acknowledged. The models rely on Generalized Method of Moments estimation and instrumental variables with clustering on EU member-states.

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“…Using YouGov/Polimetrix data from five countries including the United States and Britain, Valentino and Iyengar (2011) find no impact for a skin-tone manipulation in any country. 55 Barreto et al 2008;Hopkins 2013;Hopkins, Tran, and Williamson 2010;Newman, Hartman, and Taber 2012; see also Paxton 2006;Zolberg and Woon 1999. 56 Gluszek and Dovidio 2010, 217.…”

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The Upside of Accents: Language, Inter-group Difference, and Attitudes toward Immigration

Hopkins¹

2014

Brit. J. Polit. Sci.

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Many developed democracies are experiencing high immigration, and public attitudes likely shape their policy responses. Prior studies of ethnocentrism and stereotyping make divergent predictions about anti-immigration attitudes. Some contend that culturally distinctive immigrants consistently generate increased opposition; others predict that natives' reactions depend on the particular cultural distinction and associated stereotypes. This article tests these hypotheses using realistic, video-based experiments with representative American samples. The results refute the expectation that more culturally distinctive immigrants necessarily induce anti-immigration views: exposure to Latino immigrants with darker skin tones or who speak Spanish does not increase restrictionist attitudes. Instead, the impact of out-group cues hinges on their content and related norms, as immigrants who speak accented English seem to counteract negative stereotypes related to immigrant assimilation.The issue of immigration has taken center stage in many developed democracies, from the United States and the United Kingdom to the Netherlands and Italy. 1 Facing growing immigrant populations and significant popular pressure, governments in both hemispheres are paying renewed attention to immigration. One prominent explanation for that popular pressure, and for native-born attitudes toward immigrants generally, emphasizes the cultural distinctiveness of many contemporary immigrants. In the United States, 2 the Netherlands, 3

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Foreign Language Exposure, Cultural Threat, and Opposition to Immigration

Cited by 158 publications

References 60 publications

Public Attitudes Toward Immigration Policy Across the Legal/Illegal Divide: The Role of Categorical and Attribute-Based Decision-Making

Public Attitudes Toward Immigration Policy Across the Legal/Illegal Divide: The Role of Categorical and Attribute-Based Decision-Making

The Effect of Elite Polarization: A Comparative Perspective on How Party Elites Influence Attitudes and Behavior on Climate Change in the European Union

The Upside of Accents: Language, Inter-group Difference, and Attitudes toward Immigration

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