Immigration reform and the browning of America: tensions, conflicts and community instability in metropolitan Los Angeles

"Tensions, conflicts, and community instability associated with heightened immigration--especially of nonwhite immigrant groups--threaten to balkanize America. This article highlights the root causes of the growing opposition to both immigrants and U.S. immigration policy--the nativist backlash...

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Published in:The International migration review 1997, Vol.31 (4), p.1,055-95
Main Authors: Johnson, J H, Farrell, W C, Guinn, C
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Americas
Attitude
Behavior
California
Demography
Developed Countries
Emigration and Immigration
Geography
North America
Population
Population Dynamics
Prejudice
Psychology
Public Opinion
Public Policy
Residence Characteristics
Social Change
Social Problems
Transients and Migrants
United States
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Summary:"Tensions, conflicts, and community instability associated with heightened immigration--especially of nonwhite immigrant groups--threaten to balkanize America. This article highlights the root causes of the growing opposition to both immigrants and U.S. immigration policy--the nativist backlash, presents a typology of the community-level conflicts that have arisen as a consequence of heightened immigration--legal and illegal--to the United States over the last 30 years, and outlines the conditions under which diversity can be brought to the forefront as one of society's strengths... The 1992 Los Angeles County Social Survey (LACSS)...provides insights into the nature and magnitude of intergroup stereotyping and prejudice in a community in which large numbers of immigrants have settled."
ISSN:0197-9183