Doctoral Dissertation Research: Immigration and Social Attitudes

博士论文研究：移民与社会态度

• 批准号: 1434303
• 负责人: Tomas Jimenez
• 金额: $ 1.2万
• 依托单位: Stanford University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2014-09-01 至 2016-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1434303&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Immigration; Social

SES- 1434303Tomas JimenezAriela SchachterStanford UniversityImmigration is dramatically changing the United States? racial makeup. According to Census estimates, the U.S will be a majority-minority nation by 2043, and Latinos are already the largest non-White group, surpassing Blacks. Immigration is also increasing diversity within racial groups: about one-third of Latinos, two-thirds of Asians, and one-tenth of Blacks in the United States are foreign-born. Existing scholarship focuses on either the status of immigrants or the status of racial groups, but not the interaction between them, ignoring the reality of today's diversity. The dissertation explores how White, Black, and Latino Americans understand this growing diversity by directly comparing their attitudes about different racial and immigrant groups. The project will advance the field of sociology and the broader social sciences by uniting theoretical and empirical work on immigrant assimilation and racial politics. It will also bring much needed data to the contentious and often acrimonious debate about American immigration policies. Additionally, while efforts to mobilize Black and Latino citizens have been increasing, there is a lack of information about the political attitudes of minorities, which contributes to their under-representation in American politics. By particularly focusing on the attitudes of Black and Latino Americans, the project will offer data that can speak to key issues for both communities, including inter-minority relations and attitudes about immigration policy.The project seeks to answer the following questions: Do Americans view native-born Latinos, Blacks, and Asians differently than foreign-born Latinos, Blacks and Asians? How do views about different groups influence political behavior? And how are views about increasing diversity shaped by our own racial and ethnic identities? To answer these questions, the project uses an original survey experiment designed to capture Americans? stereotypes about twelve different racial and immigrant groups. The experimental design minimizes social desirability bias by relying on randomization to make comparisons across groups. By embedding the experiment in a series of internet surveys?both nationally-representative and surveys targeting Black and Latino Americans?the project is able to capture the attitudes of a diverse group of several thousand Americans. This study will contribute to scholarship on racial attitudes by developing updated measures that can better account for the growing heterogeneity within racial groups. It will also contribute to scholarship on immigrant assimilation by evaluating the extent to which native-born White, Black, and Latino Americans recognize differences between immigrants and the native-born, a central but largely untested claim in the assimilation literature.

SES- 1434303托马斯·希门尼斯·阿里埃拉·沙赫特斯坦福大学移民正在极大地改变美国？种族化妆。根据人口普查估计，到 2043 年，美国将成为少数族裔占多数的国家，拉丁裔已经超过黑人，成为最大的非白人群体。移民还增加了种族群体的多样性：美国大约三分之一的拉丁裔、三分之二的亚裔和十分之一的黑人是在外国出生的。现有的学术要么关注移民的地位，要么关注种族群体的地位，而不关注它们之间的相互作用，忽视了当今多样性的现实。该论文通过直接比较白人、黑人和拉丁裔美国人对不同种族和移民群体的态度，探讨了他们如何理解这种日益增长的多样性。该项目将通过结合移民同化和种族政治的理论和实证工作，推动社会学和更广泛的社会科学领域的发展。它还将为有关美国移民政策的有争议且激烈的辩论带来急需的数据。此外，虽然动员黑人和拉丁裔公民的努力一直在增加，但缺乏有关少数族裔政治态度的信息，这导致了他们在美国政治中的代表性不足。通过特别关注黑人和拉丁裔美国人的态度，该项目将提供能够说明两个社区关键问题的数据，包括少数族裔间关系和对移民政策的态度。该项目旨在回答以下问题：美国人对本土出生的拉丁裔、黑人和亚洲人的看法是否与外国出生的拉丁裔、黑人和亚洲人不同？对不同群体的看法如何影响政治行为？我们自己的种族和民族身份如何塑造关于增加多样性的观点？为了回答这些问题，该项目使用了一项旨在捕捉美国人的原创调查实验？关于十二个不同种族和移民群体的刻板印象。实验设计依靠随机化进行组间比较，最大限度地减少社会期望偏差。通过将该实验嵌入到一系列互联网调查中——既有全国性的调查，也有针对黑人和拉丁裔美国人的调查——该项目能够捕捉到数千名美国人的不同群体的态度。这项研究将通过制定更新的措施来更好地解释种族群体内日益增长的异质性，从而为种族态度的学术研究做出贡献。它还将通过评估本土出生的白人、黑人和拉丁美洲人对移民与本土出生者之间差异的认识程度，为移民同化研究做出贡献，这是同化文献中的一个核心主张，但在很大程度上未经检验。