"Bad hombres" at the Southern US border? White nationalism and the perceived dangerousness of immigrants

As a candidate and as president, Donald Trump heightened the salience of immigration, portraying those crossing the nation?s Southern border as ?bad hombres? and advocating building a wall blocking their access to the United States from Mexico. Based on a 2019 MTurk study of 465 White adults, the cu...

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1. VerfasserIn: Kulig, Teresa C. (VerfasserIn)
Beteiligte: Graham, Amanda ; Cullen, Francis T. 1951- ; Piquero, Alex R. 1970- ; Haner, Murat
Medienart: Elektronisch Aufsatz
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: 2021
In: Journal of criminology
Jahr: 2021, Band: 54, Heft: 3, Seiten: 283-304
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Donald Trump
White nationalism
Immigration
Offending
racial resentment
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Zusammenfassung:As a candidate and as president, Donald Trump heightened the salience of immigration, portraying those crossing the nation?s Southern border as ?bad hombres? and advocating building a wall blocking their access to the United States from Mexico. Based on a 2019 MTurk study of 465 White adults, the current study found that a clear majority of respondents rejected this stereotype of Southern immigrants as ?bad hombres,? judging them to be just as law-abiding as Americans. Importantly, however, the analysis revealed that two innovative measures?Hispanic resentment and, in particular, White nationalism?were consistently related to perceptions of immigrants as criminogenic. Given the growing demographic diversity of the United States, future research should consider the increasing influence of racial/ethnic resentment and White group identity on public opinions about immigration and other justice issues.
ISSN:2633-8084
DOI:10.1177/0004865820969760