Roman Marcel, Walker Hannah, Barreto Matt
University of California, Los Angeles, USA.
University of Texas-Austin, TX, USA.
Polit Res Q. 2022 Sep;75(3):661-675. doi: 10.1177/10659129211019473. Epub 2021 Jun 4.
Prior research suggests social ties with undocumented immigrants among Latinxs may increase political engagement despite constraints undocumented social networks may introduce. We build on prior research and find across six surveys of Latinxs that social ties with undocumented immigrants are reliably associated with collective, identity expressive activities such as protesting, but not activities where immigration may not be immediately relevant, such as voting. Moreover, we assess a series of mechanisms to resolve the puzzle of heightened participation despite constraints. Consistent with prior research at the intersection of anti-immigrant threat and Social Identity Theory, we find Latinxs with strong ethnic identification are more likely to engage in political protest in the presence of social ties with undocumented immigrants, whereas weak identifiers disengage. We rule out alternative mechanisms that could link undocumented social ties with participation including political efficacy, a sense of injustice, linked fate, acculturation, outgroup perceptions of immigration status, partisan identity, conducive opportunity structures, and prosociality. Our contribution suggests the reason social ties with undocumented immigrants are not necessarily a hindrance to political engagement among Latinx immigrants and their co-ethnics is because they can draw from identitarian resources to overcome participatory constraints.
先前的研究表明，尽管无证社会网络可能会带来限制，但拉丁裔与无证移民之间的社会联系可能会增加政治参与度。我们在先前研究的基础上，通过对拉丁裔的六项调查发现，与无证移民的社会联系与抗议等集体性、表达身份认同的活动有可靠关联，但与投票等移民可能并非直接相关的活动无关。此外，我们评估了一系列机制，以解决尽管存在限制但参与度仍提高的难题。与先前在反移民威胁与社会认同理论交叉领域的研究一致，我们发现，具有强烈族裔认同感的拉丁裔在与无证移民有社会联系的情况下更有可能参与政治抗议，而认同感较弱的人则会退出。我们排除了可能将无证社会联系与参与联系起来的其他机制，包括政治效能感、不公正感、命运相连感、文化适应、外群体对移民身份的认知、党派身份、有利的机会结构和亲社会行为。我们的研究贡献表明，与无证移民的社会联系不一定会阻碍拉丁裔移民及其同族人的政治参与，原因在于他们可以利用身份认同资源来克服参与限制。
