Exploring Immigrants’ Access to Public Benefits: Does Representative Bureaucracy Moderate the Chilling Effect of States’ Immigrant Policies?

• In Event: Understanding Street Level Administrators and Their Effects

Brief Overview

This study anticipates that a more representative government workforce promotes the access to public benefits for immigrants and moderates the negative effect of hostile immigrant policies on immigrants’ access to public benefits.

Authors

• Jiaqi Liang, University of Illinois at Chicago

• Sanghee Park, Boise State University

• Agustina Laurito, University of Illinois at Chicago