Dangerous Stereotypes: Correcting Misperceptions about Undocumented Immigrants to Promote Inclusionary Preferences
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How can native-immigrant tensions be reduced? Highlighting the central role of immigrants’ agency, this work develops and empirically tests a theoretical framework that emphasizes the effects of correcting misperceptions about undocumented immigrants through personal narratives on citizen support for inclusionary policies and for the political candidates more likely to implement them. This project focuses on Mexico, a critical partner in U.S. immigration policies, and employs data from panel surveys, experiments, and qualitative fieldwork.
Speaker: Natán Skigin, Postdoctoral Fellow, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University; Incoming Assistant Professor, Department of International Affairs, University of Georgia
Moderator: Steven Levitsky, Professor of Government, Harvard University; Director of the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies.
Sponsored in collaboration with the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs.