Public Attitudes Toward Immigration Policy Across the Legal/Illegal Divide: The Role of Categorical and Attribute-Based Decision-Making
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In a conjoint experiment in the United States, there was evidence of less favorable attitudes toward immigrants from Iraq, Somalia, and Sudan.
“In a conjoint experiment in the United States in which nine attributes of immigrants were manipulated, Hainmueller & Hopkins (2015) found evidence of less favorable attitudes toward immigrants from Iraq, Somalia, and Sudan, in particular (see also Wright et al. 2016).”
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In Attribute-Based Judgment (page unavailable), Wright et al. report that Americans preferred Mexican immigrants to those from Iraq and Sudan, supporting the cited sentence’s point for those two countries. The passage concerns illegal immigrants and does not report a finding about Somalia. The sentence attributes the nine-attribute experiment specifically to Hainmueller and Hopkins, not to Wright et al. (LLM, conf=0.88)
Experimental — accuracy not yet measuredThe issue of legality tends to overshadow the individual characteristics of immigrants in determining categorical reactions to them, with illegal immigrants generally triggering negative attitudes with a moralistic foundation.
“Wright et al. (2016) demonstrate that the issue of legality tends to overshadow the individual characteristics of immigrants (e.g., human capital, race) in determining categorical reactions to them, with “illegal” immigrants generally triggering negative attitudes with a moralistic foundation.”
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Derogation of Muslim immigrants has been evident in survey findings in Europe and the United States.
“Similar derogation of Muslim immigrants has been evident in survey findings in Europe (Heath & Richards 2019, Wike et al. 2016) and in the United States (Wright et al. 2016).”
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- Authors
- Wright, M., Levy, M., & Citrin, J.
- Affiliations
- American University (US)
- University of Southern California (US)
- University of California, Berkeley (US)
- Corresponding author
- Wright, Matthew
- Venue
- Political Behavior
- Published
- 2015-07-12
- Volume
- 38
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 229-253
- ISSN
- 0190-9320 (ISSN-L)
- 1573-6687
- OpenAlex
- W1232344902
- Cited by
- 180
- References
- 4
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- 2026: 23 · 2025: 10 · 2024: 10 · 2023: 15 · 2022: 6 · 2021: 31 · 2020: 31 · 2019: 30 · 2018: 11 · 2017: 11 · 2016: 1 · 2015: 1
- FWCI
- 26.53
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- escholarship.org
- Licence
- www.springer.com/tdm (tdm)
- Locations
- Political Behavior (publishedVersion)
- eScholarship (California Digital Library) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Migration, Refugees, and Integration
- Social Sciences › Political Science and International Relations › Electoral Systems and Political Participation
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Social and Intergroup Psychology
- Keywords
- immigration attitudes, immigration policy, categorical judgment, anti-immigrant sentiment, rule-following, human capital, race, language skills, public opinion
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