Status, dehumanization, and mistrust: migrant's hierarchies in attitudes toward migrants in Mexico

• In Event: Attitudes of and about Migrants

Brief Overview

Global hierarchies of wealth, race, and migration shape attitudes. Using a national survey we show that Mexicans dehumanize and distrust migrants from poorer, racialized nations, revealing how global inequalities reproduce moral exclusion.

Authors

• Daniel Zizumbo-Colunga, El Colegio de Jalisco

• Maria del Pilar Fuerte, Centro GEO

• Omar Garcia Ponce, George Washington University

• Bradford S. Jones, University of California, Davis