Type
Text
Type
Dissertation
Advisor
Huddy, Leonie | Feldman, Stanley | Barabas, Jason | Smirnov, Oleg | Enos, Ryan.
Date
2015-12-01
Keywords
Political science | ethnocentrism, immigration, local politics, mobility, native flight, political action
Department
Department of Political Science.
Language
en_US
Source
This work is sponsored by the Stony Brook University Graduate School in compliance with the requirements for completion of degree.
Identifier
http://hdl.handle.net/11401/76772
Publisher
The Graduate School, Stony Brook University: Stony Brook, NY.
Format
application/pdf
Abstract
In recent decades, communities across the United States have seen increases in hostility toward immigrants. Prevailing theories in political science hold that responses to immigration are, in part, a function of local area demographics. However, assessments of these theories suffer from the critique that local area demographics and immigration preferences may be endogenous due to residential self-selection. Recent efforts sidestep this problem by using clever modeling strategies or experiments. Rather than viewing self-selection as a nuisance, however, this article develops and tests a theory that treats migration and political behavior as strategies residents invoke in the presence of local immigration. In observational and experimental studies, residents who live in communities experiencing rapid changes in immigrant composition are more likely to participate and express anti-immigration attitudes and less likely to desire exit as the number of immigrants in surrounding communities increases. The macro-level implications of the theory are explored using agent-based modeling. | 156 pages
Recommended Citation
Velez, Yamil, "Fight or Flight: Mobility, Political Behavior, and Nativism in the United States" (2015). Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions). 2650.
https://commons.library.stonybrook.edu/stony-brook-theses-and-dissertations-collection/2650