Doctoral Dissertation Research: Immigration and Social Attitudes

SES-1434303托马斯·希门尼斯·阿里拉·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局的估计，到2043年，美国将成为一个少数民族占多数的国家，拉丁美洲人已经超过黑人，成为最大的非白人群体。移民也增加了种族群体的多样性：在美国，大约三分之一的拉丁美洲人，三分之二的亚洲人和十分之一的黑人是在国外出生的。现有的学术研究要么关注移民的地位，要么关注种族群体的地位，而不是它们之间的相互作用，忽视了当今多样性的现实。本文探讨了如何白色，黑人和拉丁美洲人理解这种日益增长的多样性，直接比较他们对不同种族和移民群体的态度。该项目将通过结合关于移民同化和种族政治的理论和经验工作，推进社会学和更广泛的社会科学领域。它还将为有关美国移民政策的有争议且经常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不断增加，但缺乏关于少数群体政治态度的信息，这导致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，该项目将提供可以说明两个社区关键问题的数据，包括少数民族之间的关系和对移民政策的态度。该项目旨在回答以下问题：美国人是否认为土生土长的拉丁裔，黑人和亚洲人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又是如何塑造我们对日益增加的多样性的看法的？为了回答这些问题，该项目使用了一个原始的调查实验，旨在捕捉美国人？对12个不同种族和移民群体的刻板印象。实验设计最大限度地减少社会期望偏差，依靠随机化进行跨组比较。通过将实验嵌入一系列互联网调查？既有全国代表性，又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。这项研究将有助于奖学金的种族态度，制定最新的措施，可以更好地解释种族群体内日益增长的异质性。它还将有助于移民同化的奖学金评估在何种程度上本土出生的白色，黑人和拉丁美洲裔美国人认识到移民和本土出生的，一个中心，但在很大程度上未经检验的索赔同化文学之间的差异。

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.