Can't we all just get along? Native-born Americans' perspectives on race and immigration
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- How do native-born Americans understand and react to immigration-driven diversity? My dissertation explores this question in three distinct empirical projects. Using a combination of original survey experiments and longitudinal (panel) survey data, I examine the causal effects of a growing, racially diverse immigrant population on the attitudes and behaviors of native-born Americans. In the first paper I find that even as immigrants achieve social mobility, they are unable to break down the symbolic racial boundaries that White Americans believe separate themselves from others. In the second paper I find that immigration is leading to divergent views of racial social distance among native-born White, Black, and Latino Americans. However, identifying the precise mechanisms through which growing immigrant communities produce causal effects on Americans' attitudes and behaviors is more complicated than previous research would suggest. The final paper in my dissertation begins to tackle this question using longitudinal survey data, and finds that 'White flight' from growing local immigrant communities, rather than attitude change, explains the association between the size of local immigrant populations and public opinion on immigration. All together, these three papers suggest that while immigration-driven change is leading to some signs of racial progress, overwhelmingly White Americans continue to view society through highly racialized lenses which exclude most immigrant-origin groups.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic; electronic resource; remote |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Copyright date | 2016 |
| Publication date | 2015, c2016; 2015 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Associated with | Schachter, Ariela |
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| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Sociology. |
| Primary advisor | Jiménez, Tomás R. (Tomás Roberto), 1975- |
| Thesis advisor | Jiménez, Tomás R. (Tomás Roberto), 1975- |
| Thesis advisor | Olzak, Susan |
| Thesis advisor | Rosenfeld, Michael J, 1966- |
| Thesis advisor | Segura, Gary M, 1963- |
| Advisor | Olzak, Susan |
| Advisor | Rosenfeld, Michael J, 1966- |
| Advisor | Segura, Gary M, 1963- |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
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Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Ariela Schachter. |
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| Note | Submitted to the Department of Sociology. |
| Thesis | Thesis (Ph.D.)--Stanford University, 2016. |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2016 by Ariel Shira Haag Schachter
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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