Warmth of the welcome: Attitudes toward immigrants and immigration policy in the United States

Annual Review of Sociology

Volumn 40, Issue , 2014, Pages 479-498

  Fussell, Elizabeth ^a  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Contact theory; Context of reception; Group threat; Prejudice; Social identities; Symbolic politics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84905271894     PISSN: 03600572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-soc-071913-043325     Document Type: Review

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