2012
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9221.2012.00928.x
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Immigration Opposition Among U.S. Whites: General Ethnocentrism or Media Priming of Attitudes About Latinos?

Abstract: General ethnocentrism seems to be a powerful antecedent of immigration opinion, typically displaying larger effects than economic concerns. News about immigration, however, may focus attention on a particular group in a given historical moment. We predict group-specific affect, not general ethnocentrism, should most powerfully shape immigration policy opinion in the contemporary United States. We test this expectation with content analyses of news coverage, survey data from 1992 to 2008, a survey experiment, a… Show more

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“…Berg 2009;Hopkins 2010;Rocha et al 2011). Media exposure, too, could play this role depending on the extent and tone of coverage on the issue (Dunaway et al 2010;Valentino et al 2012). Finally, the broader political context-both ''dramatic'' events such as terror attacks (Branton et al 2011) or longer-term reform efforts (Schildkraut 2012)-may affect the structure of individual choices.…”
Section: Resultsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Berg 2009;Hopkins 2010;Rocha et al 2011). Media exposure, too, could play this role depending on the extent and tone of coverage on the issue (Dunaway et al 2010;Valentino et al 2012). Finally, the broader political context-both ''dramatic'' events such as terror attacks (Branton et al 2011) or longer-term reform efforts (Schildkraut 2012)-may affect the structure of individual choices.…”
Section: Resultsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In symbolic terms, however, the situation had changed dramatically for now the vast majority of the migrants were “illegal” and thus by definition “criminals” and “lawbreakers.” The rise of illegal migration created an opening for political entrepreneurs of various stripes to cultivate a new politics of fear, framing Latino immigration as a grave threat to the nation (Santa Anna 2002; Abrajano and Hajnal 2015). Chavez (2001, 2008) has documented the steady rise of what he calls the “Latino Threat Narrative” in the U.S. media from the 1970s through the 1990s, and Massey and Pren (2012a) likewise found that newspaper mentions of Mexican immigration as a crisis, flood, or invasion rose in tandem with border apprehensions from 1965 to 1979, pushing public opinion in a more conservative, anti-immigrant direction (Massey and Pren 2012b; Valentino, Brader, and Jardina 2012). …”
Section: Illegal Migration the Latino Threat And The Bordermentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Numerous scholars have also examined how the media portray minorities or cover cognate issues such as immigration (Bail 2012;Benson 2013;Benson and Saguy 2005;Cottle 2000;Valentino, Brader, and Jardina 2013;van Dijk 1991). Moreover, in recent years, studies have focused increasing attention on Muslims in the media, and in the British media in particular (Baker 2010;Baker, Gabrielatos, and McEnery 2013;Dolezal, Helbling, and Hutter 2010;Greenberg and Miazhevich 2012;Jaspal and Cinnirella 2010;Moore, Mason, and Lewis 2008;Morey and Yaqin 2011;Poole 2002;Poole and Richardson 2006;Richardson 2004).…”
Section: The Media and Minorities: Theories And Hypothesesmentioning
confidence: 99%