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Warmth of the Welcome: Attitudes Toward Immigrants and Immigration Policy in the United States
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Natives' attitudes toward immigrants and immigration policy are important factors in the context of reception of immigrants because they contribute to a warm or chilly welcome, which potentially shapes immigrant and ethnic identities and intergroup relations. Public opinion polls show a recent “warming” of Americans' traditional ambivalence about immigration. Empirical research on attitudes toward immigrants and racial groups formed by recent waves of immigrants resonates with the dynamic nature of Blumer's (1958) theory of prejudice as a sense of relative group position. To better understand this dynamism, research that intentionally contrasts study sites on conflict and contact conditions and the presence or absence of symbolic politics, as well as research on different native-born racial and ethnic groups, would reveal a broader range of natives' attitude formation processes and the role they play in immigrant reception.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Fussell, E.
- Affiliations
- Washington State University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Fussell, Elizabeth
- ORCID
- Fussell, Elizabeth
- Venue
- Annual Review of Sociology
- Publisher
- Annual Reviews
- Published
- 2014-07-30
- Volume
- 40
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 479-498
- ISSN
- 0360-0572 (ISSN-L)
- 1545-2115
- PMC
- PMC4782982
- OpenAlex
- W2143584372
- Cited by
- 253
- References
- 133
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 2.20
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Locations
- Annual Review of Sociology (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- Funders
- Washington State University
- Tulane University
- Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (R24HD041020)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Migration, Refugees, and Integration
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Social and Intergroup Psychology
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Racial and Ethnic Identity Research
- Keywords
- attitudes toward immigrants, immigration policy, immigrant reception, immigration attitudes, prejudice, intergroup relations, ethnic identity, immigrant identity, symbolic politics, United States
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