(iPoster) Latinos, Psychological Effects of Immigration Contexts, and Sense of Belonging

• In Event: Poster Session: Political Psychology I & II
  In Poster Session: Poster Session: Political Psychology I

Abstract

States have increasingly been active in creating policy contexts that make it easier or harder to incorporate immigrants. The scholarship on structural stigma begun to assess the effects of such punitive or expansive policies on Latinos’ health outcomes. Though not all Latinos are directly targeted by such policies, previous research is beginning to show the effects of a hostile environment on non-targeted members. This work picks up on this strand of literature and asks: how do such different state-level contexts affect Latinos' feelings of belonging in the US? Using the 2016 and 2020 Collaborative Multi-Racial Post-Election Study (CMPS) and the structural stigma framework, this study looks at the impact of hostile contexts on Latinos’ emotions and whether this is linked to Latinos' sense of belonging within the US. This work builds on the literature that has shown how these contexts impact Latinos’ interactions with health institutions and law enforcement and explores whether hostile contexts have wider impacts on Latinos’ lives

Author

• Jennifer Lopez, American University