Department of Social Sciences, Alabama A&M University, 4900, Meridian Street North, Drake Hall, Room 3, Normal, AL, 35762, USA.
Soc Sci Res. 2019 Sep;83:102309. doi: 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2019.05.002. Epub 2019 May 18.
This research examines opinions on issues related to immigration and non-citizens. Using ordered logit, this study assesses whether the cultural theory and realistic group conflict theory, through cultural considerations and economic threat, respectively, describes best the opinions across racial groups. Unlike most other studies on the subject, I find that while Americans are not very much concerned about cultural influences from immigrants, they clearly perceive immigrants as an economic threat. Also, unlike most other studies that focus solely on White opinions, this investigation examines opinions of several racial groups. I find that while Whites have both cultural concerns and perceive economic threat from immigrants, they only perceive economic threat from Hispanics. African Americans and Hispanics do not perceive adverse cultural effects, but both racial groups perceive economic threat from immigrants. Additionally, African Americans perceive economic threat from Hispanics. Asian Americans harbor both cultural concerns and perceive economic threat from immigrants.
本研究考察了人们对移民和非公民相关问题的看法。本文采用有序逻辑回归分析，通过文化因素和经济威胁，分别评估文化理论和现实群体冲突理论是否能最好地描述不同种族群体的观点。与该主题的大多数其他研究不同，我发现尽管美国人并不太担心移民的文化影响，但他们显然将移民视为经济威胁。此外，与大多数仅关注白人观点的研究不同，本研究考察了几个种族群体的观点。我发现，虽然白人既有文化方面的担忧，又认为移民对经济构成威胁，但他们只认为西班牙裔移民对经济构成威胁。非裔美国人和西班牙裔人则没有察觉到不利的文化影响，但这两个群体都认为移民对经济构成威胁。此外，非裔美国人认为西班牙裔人对经济构成威胁。亚裔美国人则既关注文化方面，又认为移民对经济构成威胁。
