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100 _aRoman, Marcel F.
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245 _aLiving in the shadow of deportation: How immigration enforcement forestalls political assimilation
260 _aPolitical Research Quarterly
300 _a76(3), Sep, 2023: p.1460-1474
520 _aPrior research demonstrates that acculturated co-ethnics of immigrant groups adopt restrictive immigration policy preferences akin to that of host country dominant groups. However, acculturated U.S. Latinxs still maintain relatively open immigration policy preferences despite their distance from the canonical immigrant archetype (e.g., Spanish-speaking, immigrant). To answer the puzzle, I draw on sociological perspectives and theorize that the increased societal integration of undocumented immigrants in tandem with an expanding interior immigration enforcement apparatus generates rebuff against Anglo political norms among acculturated Latinxs. Using 6 national Latinx surveys, I corroborate my theory and find perceptibly threatening immigration enforcement contexts forestall the adoption of restrictive immigration policy preferences via acculturation. Absent deportation threat, acculturated Latinxs adopt immigration preferences similar to white Anglos. I also replicate these findings for attitudinal dimensions outside immigration policy preferences. This paper suggests political assimilation is not preordained among acculturated immigrant co-ethnics in light of an unreceptive host society. – Reproduced https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/10659129221147866
650 _aDeportation, Enforcement forestalls, Political assimilation
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773 _aPolitical Research Quarterly
906 _aMIGRATION
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