Cambridge University Study: National rhetoric influences anti-immigration sentiment

National rhetoric influences anti-immigration sentiment

New Mexico Independent
May 28, 2010
By Gwyneth Doland

Why are some in Arizona so angry about immigration? It may be a combination of things they’re seeing around them—and what they’re hearing on TV. A recent study published in American Political Science Review, a publication of  Cambridge University Press, hypothesizes that ”Hostile political reactions to neighboring immigrants are most likely when communities undergo sudden influxes of immigrants and when salient national rhetoric reinforces the threat.”
http://newmexicoindependent.com/55729/national-rhetoric-influences-anti-immigration-sentiment
http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?aid=7449412