Exploring the relationship between national identity and attitudes towards immigrants in the United States

IF 0.9 Q3 POLITICAL SCIENCE

NATIONAL IDENTITIES Pub Date : 2022-05-30 DOI:10.1080/14608944.2022.2079118

Amanda Hill

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ABSTRACT As of 2018, there were more than 44.7 million immigrants residing, both lawfully and unlawfully, in the United States [Batalova, J., Blizzard, B., & Bolter, J. (2020, February 14). Frequently requested statistics on immigrants and immigration in the United States. Migration Policy Institute. https://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/frequently-requested-statistics-immigrants-and-immigration-united-states]. Understanding the attitudes of U.S. citizens towards immigrants is necessary because of the impact that attitudes can have on policy development and the subsequent national treatment of immigrants based on those policies. This article utilizes a framework of national identity which suggests that this construct is comprised of three separate elements: nativism, emotionality, and behavior. Using U.S. citizen response data from three waves of the National Identity module of the International Social Survey Programme (ISSP) from 1995, 2003, and 2013, multivariate linear regressions were used to explore the relationship between this framework and attitudes towards immigrants. Findings indicated that there were statistically significant relationships between respondents’ perceptions of national identity and attitudes towards immigrants.

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探讨美国民族认同与移民态度之间的关系

(2020年2月14日)截至2018年，有超过4470万合法和非法移民居住在美国。经常要求的美国移民和移民统计数据。移民政策研究所。https://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/frequently-requested-statistics-immigrants-and-immigration-united-states]。了解美国公民对移民的态度是必要的，因为这种态度会影响政策的制定以及随后根据这些政策对移民的国民待遇。本文采用了一个国家认同的框架，该框架表明国家认同由三个独立的要素组成:本土主义、情感和行为。利用国际社会调查计划(ISSP) 1995年、2003年和2013年三波国家认同模块的美国公民回应数据，采用多元线性回归来探索这一框架与对移民态度之间的关系。调查结果表明，受访者对国家认同的看法与对移民的态度之间存在统计学上显著的关系。

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NATIONAL IDENTITIES POLITICAL SCIENCE-

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期刊介绍： National Identities explores the formation and expression of national identity from antiquity to the present day. It examines the role in forging identity of cultural (language, architecture, music, gender, religion, the media, sport, encounters with "the other" etc.) and political (state forms, wars, boundaries) factors, by examining how these have been shaped and changed over time. The historical significance of "nation"in political and cultural terms is considered in relationship to other important and in some cases countervailing forms of identity such as religion, region, tribe or class. The focus is on identity, rather than on contingent political forms that may express it. The journal is not prescriptive or proscriptive in its approach.