Group Threat or Contact? Experimentally Testing the Effects of Local Immigration Primes on Immigration Policy Views

• In Event: Experimental Research in Immigration Studies

Brief Overview

In contrast to other recent studies, we find that exposure to large immigrant populations at the local level can increase Americans’ support for pro-immigrant policies. Our results from a survey experiment support the inter-group contact theory.

Authors

• Tanika Raychaudhuri, University of Pennsylvania

• Stephanie Chan, Princeton University

• Ali Adam Valenzuela, Princeton University