Collective Social Capital, Outgroup Threat, and Americans’ Preference for Restrictive Immigration
- 주제(키워드) anti-immigrant attitudes , economic concern , outgroup threat , security concern , social capital
- 등재 SSCI, SCOPUS
- 발행기관 SAGE Publications Inc.
- 발행년도 2023
- 총서유형 Journal
- URI http://www.dcollection.net/handler/ewha/000000209745
- 본문언어 영어
- Published As https://doi.org/10.1177/07311214221127935
초록/요약
Throughout parts of the Western world, populist nationalism has gained increasing momentum. Despite cross-national differences in populist leaders and parties, one common feature stands out: xenophobic prejudice. This paper examines in the U.S. context, first, a common assumption linking outgroup threat perception with support for restrictive immigration. Second, more importantly, this paper tests how and the extent to which collective (state-level) social capital independently influences the American citizens’ anti-immigrant attitudes, as well as whether it moderates the association between outgroup threat and preference for restricting immigration. Multilevel models based on a nationally representative sample show that people who hold higher perceptions of outgroup threat are indeed more likely to oppose immigration. By contrast, living in a state endowed with more social capital is associated with pro-immigration attitudes. Last, the association between security threat and anti-immigrant preference is weaker (stronger) in states with higher (lower) measures of social capital. © The Author(s) 2022.
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