Reexamining the "politics of in-between":: Political participation among Mexican immigrants in the United States
Reexamining the "politics of in-between":: Political participation among Mexican immigrants in the United States
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DOI：
10.1177/0739986303258599
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发表时间：
2003-11-01
影响因子：
1.4
通讯作者：
Mu単oz, JA
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作者：
Barreto, MA;Mu単oz, JA
本文对墨西哥裔美国移民的政治参与进行了多变量分析。登记和投票等传统参与形式不足以检验包括 700 万非公民在内的民众的公民参与度。相反，本文探讨的是非选举参与，包括参加会议或集会、志愿参加竞选活动或为政治事业捐款。这项研究采用了墨西哥裔美国人的全国样本，包括移民和非公民，模型显示墨西哥裔美国移民在政治上很活跃。作者发现，外国出生的受访者的活跃程度并不比本土出生的受访者低，此外，在外国出生的受访者中，非公民参与的可能性与入籍公民一样。尽管传统的社会经济地位变量仍然很重要，但语言流畅性、在美国的生活百分比以及移民对美国机会的态度为墨西哥移民的政治参与模型提供了额外的预测能力。
This article undertakes a multivariate analysis of political participation among Mexican American immigrants. Traditional forms of participation such as registration and voting are not adequate tests of civic engagement for a population including 7 million noncitizens. Rather this article examines nonelectoral participation including attending a meeting or rally, volunteering for a campaign, or donating money to a political cause. This research employs a national sample of Mexican Americans, including immigrants and noncitizens, and the models reveal that Mexican American immigrants are politically active. The authors find that the foreign-born are not less likely to be active than native-born respondents and, furthermore, among the foreign-born, noncitizens are just as likely to participate as naturalized citizens. Although traditional SES variables remain important, language fluency, percentage of life in the United States, and immigrant attitudes toward opportunities in the United States contribute additional predictive capacity to models of political participation among Mexican immigrants.